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P. azarm of Bolivia and Paraguay is more nearly related to P. hepatica than to 

 P. testacea, having the middle of the back tinged vpith grey. But the bird really 

 most nearly allied to the present one is that recently described by us from British 

 Guiana as P. Jiogmalea, vrhich, however, is of a still deeper almost vinous red, and 

 the throat and middle abdomen are lighter, and contrast with the chest and flanks. 



The distinctions between all these birds are no doubt slight, but the lines dividing 

 the species are not drawn so closely as in the allied genus Phoenicothraupis, and division 

 brings out more plainly the peculiarities of their geographical distribution. 



Of the habits of this species we know but little, but it seems to frequent the lower 

 ranges of mountainous regions. 



The Plate represents a male and female from the State of Panama, types of the 

 original description. 



6. Pyranga figlina, sp. n. 



Pyranga hepatica, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 139' (nee Sw.). 



Pyranga saira var. testacea, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 434 ' (nee Scl. & Salv.). 



P. testacex similis, sed colore rubro omnino sordidiore, tectrioibus anrieularibus fusois. (Descr. maris ex Manati 



river, British Honduras. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 74693.) 

 $ quoque femina P. tesiacece sordidior, abdomine imo vix flavescente. (Descr. feminse ex Poctun, Gruatemala. 



Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. British Hojstdubas, Manati river {Dr. JBerendt) ; Guatemala, pine-ridge of Poctun 

 {0. S. & F. P. G. 1). 



Mr. Bidgway has kindly sent us an adult male of this Pyranga, which, on comparison 

 with our series of P. testacea, presents differences which render its separation necessary. 

 A female long in our collection, and supposed to belong to P. hepatica ^, we now place 

 here, it being evidently a female of the British-Honduras bird. 



The red colour of the plumage in P. figlina is not nearly so bright as in P. testacea, 

 having a browner tint ; the female, too, is a much duller-coloured bird. Both have 

 brownish ear-coverts, a character of P. hepatica, from which, however, this bird differs 

 in the coloration of the back. 



7. Pyranga roseigularis. 



Pyranga roseigularis, Cabot, Bost. Journ. N: H. v. p. 416 ' j Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 6 ' j Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 125. t. 3 ^ Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sc. ii. p. 245 ^ Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 443 \ 



Pusco-cinerea, dorso saturatiore rufesoente tincto, loris, ciliis, genis et pectore sordide flavo indutis, subtus 

 cinerea medialiter dilutior ; pileo toto, aKs, tectricibus supracaudalibus, et cauda fusco-rufls, gula pallide 

 rosacea, subalaribus et crisso dilutioribus. Long, alse 3-05, caudae 2-75, tarsi 0-80. (Descr. exempl. typ. 

 apud Eidgway, Ibis, 1873, p. 125. Mus. Dr. Cabot.) 



5 mari similis sed capite summo olivaceo et gula flavida distinguenda. (Descr. feminse ex Izalam, Yucatan. 

 Mus. nostr.) * 



Hob. Mexico, Yucatan, between Chemex and Yalahoo {Cabot i), Izalam (Gaumer^). 



