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*[409.] Piranga rubra rubra (Linnseus). Summer Tanager. 

 *[410.] Piranga erythromelas (Vieillot). Scarlet Tanager. 

 411. Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda Cabanis. Dusky-tailed Ant-Tanager. 



Two males, Gatun, May 30, 1911, and January 21, 1912; two others, 

 Agua Clara, March 12, 1911, and Mt. Hope, June 1, 1913; two fe- 

 males, Gatun, ]May 14, 1911, and Agua Clara, March 12, 1911. Iris 

 brown, bill black (brown in female), feet gray suffused with pink. 



Found in thickets and in the jungle. It has a guttural scolding 

 note somewhat similar to that of a wren but with more volume. 



Nest in a cluster of orchids on a vine eight feet up; a cup made of 

 dead leaves wound tightly with green vines and lined with brown 

 rootlets. Two fresh eggs (May 14), glossy white^ .66 x 1.01 and .65 x 

 .95 ins. 



Stomach of one of the birds contained many insects, a few seeds 

 and a small snake. 



[412.] Heterospingus rubrifrons (Lawrence). Lawrence's Tanager. 



413. Tachyphonus rufus (Boddaert). Boddaert's Tanager. 



Male and female, Tabernilla, April 8, 1911, and female, Gatun, 

 May 7, 1911. Iris brown, bill and feet bluish. 



Nest (May 7) in a clump of leaves of wild banana two feet from the 

 ground. Eggs two, .70 x .94 and .71 x .96 in., gray spotted and scrawled 

 with black very much like those of Agelaius phoeniceus. 



414. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafresnaye and D'Orbignj-. White-shouldered Tanager. 



Male, Gatun, February 11, 1912. Iris grayish-brown, bill black 

 with wedge-shaped blue spot on the sides, tarsi blackish-slate. 



[415.] Tachyphonus delatrii Lafresnaye. Tawny-crested Tanager. 

 416. Eucometis cristata (DuBus). Gray-crested Tanager. 



Two males, Gatun, February 5 and July 9, 1911, and an unsexed 

 specimen, March 3, 1912. Iris reddish-brown, l)ill black, feet flesh 

 color. 



Found in thick undergrowth of jungle. 



Nest a loosely built cup, formed entirely of slender round fibers and 

 very fine reddish-brown tendrils, situated in a bush. Two eggs,, 

 partly incubated (July 9), gray, heavily marked with blotches and 

 smears of smoky-brown and blackish, .94 x .70 and .92 x .69 in. 



[417.] Mitrospingus cassini Lawrence. Cassin's Tanager. 



418. Rhodinocichla rosea eximia Ridgway. Panama Thrush Tanager. 



Two males, Tabernilla, March 19, 1911, and Pedro Miguel, ]\Iay 5, 

 1912; female, Mt. Hope, February 20, 1913. Iri- light brown, bill 

 blue-gray dusky at base, feet bluish-black. 



Found in thickets. Song very striking; a loud clear whistle of two 



