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401. Tangara inornata (Gould). Plain-colored Tanager. 



Male and female, Gatun, April 7, 1912, and May 30, 1911. Iris 

 brown, bill black blue-gray below, feet blue-gray. 

 Found on the edge of the jungle. 



[402.] Tangara gyroloides (Lafresnaye). Blue-rumped Green Tanager. ^ 



[403.] Tangara lavinia (Cassin). Lavinia's Tanager. 



404. Thraupis cana cana (Swainson). Blue Tanager. 



Two females, Toro Point, April 2, 1911, and also taken at Gatun, 

 March 2, 1911. Iris brown, bill black above blue-gray below, feet 

 dark grayish-blue. 



A fairly abundant bird in thickets and cocoanut groves. 



405. Thraupis palmarum melanoptera (Solater). Black-winged Tanager. 



Three males, Gatun, March 2, 1913; Toro Point, July 23, 1911, and 

 Ft. Lorenzo, January 7, 1912. 

 Found in cocoanut groves. 



[406.] Ramphocelus luciani Lafresnaj'e. Bonaparte's Tanager. 



407. Ramphocelus icteronotus Bonaparte. Yellow-rumped Tanager. 



Male and female, Gatun, Fel^ruary 12, and a female, Gatun, April 

 30, 1911. Iris reddish-brown, bill light blue with dark edges and tip, 

 feet 'dark blue. 



Common in thickets along the edge of the jungle. ' 

 Nest five feet up in clump of shrubbery, a very compact cup, made 

 of vines on the outside, dead leaves, plant fibers and finally a lining of 

 brown and black rootlets. Eggs two, nearly fresh (April 30), blue 

 with heavy blackish blotches on large end forming a cap, .67 x .93 in. 

 Another nest (May 14) exactly the same, with the same sort of vine 

 wrapped around the outside. Eggs two, fresh, .73 x .95 in., blue, with 

 black spots more scattered. 



408. Ramphocelus dimidiatus isthmicus Ridgway. Panama Crimson-backed Tanager. 



Three males, Mindi, September 17, 1911; Tabernilla, March 19, 

 1911, and Gatun, April 5, 1912; two females Ft. Lorenzo, June 21, 

 1911, and Miraflores, March 5, 1911. Iris reddish-brown, bill black 

 above, mandible white for basal two-thirds (uniform dusky in female), 

 feet black. 



A fairly common species in thickets. 

 -» Nest a frail shallow cup, made of strips of plant bark and dead 

 leaves, lined with finer grass stalks and a few black hairs, ten feet up 

 in a l^ush. Eggs two (June 11), blue, with irregular spots and scrawls 

 of black about the larger end, one much more extensively spotted than 

 the other, .96 x .66 and .96 x .69 in. Another nest (March 3, 1912) 

 at Toro Point contained two fresh eggs, .94 x .70 in. 



