Forehead, eyelids, and anterior half of cheeks velvety-black; red of a carmine shade. Hab. Middle America, north to Mirador. … var. erythromelæna.[98]
Forehead, eyelids, and anterior half of cheeks scarlet (lores only black); red of a scarlet shade. Hab. Northern South America. … var. ardens.[99]
Wings brownish-dusky in the ♂; back streaked with black.
3. P. bidentata.[100] Wing with two bands of pinkish-white (♂), or yellowish-white (♀). ♂. Above reddish-brown; head and beneath minium-scarlet. ♀. Above olive-green; head and beneath yellow. Hab. Middle America (both coasts) from Costa Rica to Middle Mexico.
b. Body always yellow; head red in the ♂.
Lesser wing-coverts black or dusky.
4. P. ludoviciana. Wing with two light yellow bands. ♂. Back, wings, and tail intense black; head crimson. ♀. Above olive-green, tinged with ashy on the back; beneath pale greenish-yellow; wings and tail dusky olive-green; no red on head. Hab. Western Province of United States.
Lesser wing-coverts and middle coverts yellow.
5. P. rubriceps.[101] Wing without light bands. ♂. Back and rump olive-green; wings and tail black; head crimson. Hab. New Granada.
B. Wing and tail reddish or greenish, of the same general color of the upper parts; wing without any light bands.