302 . TANAGRIDA. 
P. vinacea has a limited range in Central America, being confined to Costa Rica and 
the State of Panama. In those countries it no doubt takes the place of the more 
northern P. rubicoides, just as P. fuscicauda represents P. salvini in the same 
countries. 
3. Phenicothraupis fuscicauda. 
Pheenicothraupis fuscicauda, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 86°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. pp. 97, 179°; 
ix. p. 99°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 350°; v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 299°; 
Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 3167. 
Phenicothraupis erythrolema, 8cl. Cat. Am. B. p. 83 (ex Bp. MS.)’. 
Phenicothraupis rubicoides, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 297°. 
Obscure fusco-rubescens, subtus clarior, alis caudaque nigro-brunneis rubescente marginatis, vertice medio 
subcristato coccineo nigro haud marginato, gutture medio distincte lete coccineo ; rostro nigro, pedibus 
corylinis. Long. tota 7-8, ale 4:1, caudw 4:0, rostri a rictu 0°7, tarsi 1-0. (Descr. maris ex Lion Hill 
Panama. Mus, nostr.) 
2 pallide fusco-brunnea, pileo dorso concolori, subtus dilutior, ventre imo pallidiore, gula ochracea. (Descr. 
femine ex San Carlos, Costa Rica. Mus. Boucard.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt?, Janson), Greytown (Holland®); Costa Rica}, 
Angostura (Carmiol 4, v. Frantzius *), Sarapiqui (v. Frantzius*), Bebedero on the 
Gulf of Nicoya (Arcé) ; San Carlos (Boucard); Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan 2°). 
—Co.omBia 8, 
Before this species was formally described by Dr. Cabanis in 1861, specimens of it 
from Santa Marta, Colombia, were in collections bearing, so Mr. Sclater tells us, the 
MS. name P. erythrolaima, Bp. One of these passed into the cabinet of the latter 
ornithologist, and on the receipt of M‘Leannan’s specimens from Panama in 1864, we 
were enabled to pronounce it identical with them and with P. fuscicauda of 
Cabanis >. 
The species may readily be distinguished from P. rudicoides, not only by its darker 
colour, especially its tail, but by the clear definition of the scarlet throat, and by the 
absence of a dark lateral border to either side of the occipital crest. The same 
differences distinguish it from P. vinacea. Its nearest ally is the recently described 
P. salvini, which has a similar crest; but the plumage of this bird, especially the 
abdomen, is much redder and the throat not nearly so distinctly circumscribed. 
Dr. Cabanis’s type came from Costa Rica, whence we have also received examples, 
as well as from the State of Panama, where, however, it does not seem to be generally 
distributed, as our collector Arcé, in a large series of P. vinacea obtained at Chiriqui 
and the neighbourhood of Santiago de Veraguas, did not include a single specimen of 
this bird; M‘Leannan alone met with it on the line of the Panama railway. North- 
wards of Costa Rica it spreads to Chontales in Nicaragua, where both Belt and 
Janson obtained male specimens’. It has also been recorded from the Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec; but the birds obtained there belong to the next species. 
