310 TANAGRID. 
Costa Rica is the northern limit of the range of this species; but neither here nor 
in the adjoining parts of the State of Panama does it appear to be abundant. On the 
line of the Panama railway, however, it is common enough. Salmon obtained its nest 
and eggs at Medellin in Colombia, and he says that it builds in high grass. The eggs 
are a pale salmon-colour, with a few large isolated dark-brown spots °®. 
2. Tachyphonus luctuosus. 
Tachyphonus luctuosus, d@Orb. & Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 29*; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 114°; 1860, 
pp. 274°, 292%; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 141°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 297°; 
ix. p. 100’; Scl. & Salv. P.Z. 8. 1864, p.851°; 1868, p. 167°; 1879, p. 503%; Pelz. Orn. 
Bras. p. 213"; Finsch, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 582”; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 817”. 
Pyranga luctuosa, d’Orb. Voy. Am. Mér. Ois. p. 268, t. 20. f. 1, 2™. 
Nigerrimus, tectricibus alarum minoribus et subalaribus albis; rostro nigro, mandibule basi plumbescente. 
Long. tota 5:2, ale 5:6, caude 2:3, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 0°6. (Descr. maris ex Angostura, Costa Rica. 
Mus. nostr.) 
 olivacea, capite cinerascente, pileo saturatiore, gula albicante, corpore subtus reliquo flavo, subalaribus albis. 
(Descr. femine ex Santa Rita, Ecuador. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt 8); Costa Rica, Angostura’, Tuis’, Valza (Carmiol) ; 
Panama, line of railway (J/‘Leannan® 8), Chepo (Arcé), Rio Truando (Wood 5). 
—Sourn America generally from Colombia to Guiana, Western Brazil 11, and 
Bolivia 1 14, 
Though not uncommon in collections of birds from Costa Rica, this species of 
Tachyphonus has only been recorded from that portion of the State of Panama which 
lies near the South-American continent. From Chiriqui and the Province of Veraguas 
it appears to be absent. 
On the isthmus of Darien Mr. Wood observed it at an encampment in the mountains 
near the river Truando. Here it frequented high trees and was rarely seen, being 
very shy and active®. Mr. Wood speaks of the female being brown; but the bird 
alluded to was probably the female of 7. delattrit. 
In the continent of South America, 7. luctwosus has a very extensive range. It was 
first discovered in Bolivia by d’Orbigny 1, and since then has been traced over most of 
the tropical portions of the continent, with the exception of Eastern Brazil. In the 
valley of the Amazons we have but few records of it. Natterer, however, obtained it 
at Borba!!; but it escaped Bartlett’s observation. In Ecuador our records of it are 
from the western slopes of the Andes. From the lowlands of Guiana we have several 
examples, and thence it spreads westwards to Trinidad 12 and Venezuela ®. Lachyphonus 
luctuosus has no near allies, though J. nitidissimus has a general resemblance to it ; 
the occipital crest of that species renders it easily recognized, 
