PHCEXICOTHRAUPIS.— LANIO. 303 



4. Phoenicothraupis salvini. 



Phmnicothraupis salvini, Berl. Ibis, 1883^ p. 487 \ 



Phoenicothraupis rubious, Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549 ^ ? 

 Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 19' ? 

 Phcenicothraupis rubicoides, Boucardj P. Z. S. 1883, p. 443 *. 



P. fuseicaudce afflnis sed undique magis nibescens, gula coccinea hand distinote circumdata et abdomine magis 



rubro distinguenda. 

 $ brunnea fere unicolor, capite baud cristato, gula et abdomine medio oohraceis. (Descr. maris et feminse ex 



Cbisec, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hai. Mexico, hot region of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast ^), Guichicovi (Sumichrast ^), 

 Izalam in Yucatan (Gaumer^); British Hok-duras, Corosal (Roe), Belize 

 [Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Chisec {0. S. &.F. D. G.). 



It is probably this species that is referred to by Sumichrast as Phoenicothraupis 

 rubicus in his paper on the Birds of Vera Cruz, as he also mentions the presence of 

 P. rubicoides in the same country. The bird called P. fuscicauda by Mr. Lawrence, 

 from Tehuantepec, certainly belongs here, and it too was accompanied by P. rubi- 

 coides. Count von Berlepsch expresses some doubt as to the name of a young male 

 from Tehuantepec, sent us by the late Professor Sumichrast ; but an adult male 

 kindly supplied to us by M. Boucard from the same source proves that P. salvini is 

 certainly found in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 



The range of this species, therefore, includes Southern Mexico. In Yucatan and in 

 the neighbourhood of Belize it also occurs, as we have several male examples from 

 there. It is also to be found in the forests of Northern Vera Paz, which stretch from 

 Coban in the south to the confines of Peten in the north, as from nearly the centre of 

 this district we have specimens of both sexes, as well as of a young male. 



The female of P. salvini has no crest ; in this respect it agrees with that sex in P. 

 fuscicauda, of which it is a northern form. The male of P. salvini may easily be dis- 

 tinguished from that of P. rubicoides, with which it is often found associated, by the 

 absence of the dark lateral margin to the crest, by its brighter throat, and the rather 

 greyer cast of the plumage of the upper surface. 



LANIO. 



Lanio, Vieillot, Anal. p. 40 (1816) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 118. 



Five species constitute this genus, three of which are peculiar to our region, viz. 

 L. aurantius of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras ; L. leucothorax of Nica- 

 ragua and Eastern Costa Eica ; and L. melanopygius of Western Costa Rica and the 

 State of Panama. The extreme range of Lanio in the latter State is the mountains in 

 the neighbourhood of Santa Fe ; it is not found in the low-lying forests of the line of 

 railway. In South America two distinct species occur— one, L. atricapillus, having a 



