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Bangs — Birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui. 



The two subspecies of Pyrrhura ])offinunnl are easily recognized l)y tlie 

 Costa Rican true hojf'nuwni being without red tips and sliafts to the feathers 

 of nape and crown (one skin only out of a large number examined show- 

 ing any) and the Chiriqui form, gaudem, having always, when adult, such 

 red markings, often very conspicuously developed. 



Eumomota superciliaris australis subsp. nov. 



Type from Bebedero, Costa Rica, c? adult. No. 16,499, coll. of E. A. and 

 O. Bangs. Collected February 11, 1890, by C. F. Underwood. 



Characters. — Similar to true E. superciliaris, but paler in color throughout, 

 blue color of wings and tail much paler, more greenish blue ; superciliaries 

 chiefly whitish or very pale blue ; cinnamon-rufous of middle of back and 

 belly paler, particularly so on belly ; and wings quite different in charac- 

 ter, the primaries unw.h shorter in proi)nrtion to secondaries, so that the 

 secondaries reach nearly to the wing tip; black tips of tertials and second- 

 aries much shorter. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



The Underwood collection contained but two skinsof this bird,— which is 

 I believe rare and local in Costa Rica,— both from Bebedero, the type, 

 an adult male taken February 11, 1890, and an adult female, September 

 11, 1893. These two are alike in all important points, and differ very 

 much from any northern specimen— I have examined a score or more— in 

 the very peculiar wing with the secondaries and tertials reaching almost to 

 the wing tip, instead of falling far liack of it. The short black ends of 

 the tertials and secondaries and the generally paler and duller coloring 

 of the southern bird are also striking characters, and if other Costa Rican 

 , examples prove like my two I believe this southern extreme will be found 

 to be more than subsi)ecifically ditferent from the northern true E.svprr- 

 ciliaris (Sandbach). 



Crypticus apiasler Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1S42, p. 174, was described from 

 " San Carlos America' Centralis, Oceani Pacitici." As every Central Amer- 

 ican State excei)t British Honduras has a town in it called San Carlos, I 

 am at a loss to tell just whence Lesson's tyjie came. There is nothing in 

 the description to indicate that the bird differed in any way from true 

 Eumomota superciliaris, and I am forced to regard Lesson's name as a syno- 

 nym of the northern form. 



Saucerottea cyanura impatiens subsp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen) from San Redro, (^osta Rica, fully adult d*. 

 No. 16,684, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected October, 1904, by C. F. 

 Underwood. 



