BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDJH.K AMERICA. 119 



men primrose yellow or white tinned with 3^cllow; under tail-coverts 

 clear lomon 3^ellow; remig-es, primary coverts, alula, and tail black, 

 faintly g'lossed with bluish or greenish, the secondaries, j)riniaries, and 

 primar}'^ coverts more or less distinctly edged with gray; inner webs 

 of rectrices (except two middle pairs ") with a large patch of white on 

 middle portion; bill, legn, and feet black; length (skins), 237-244 

 (240.4); wing, 96-98 (96.6); tail, 127-139 (131.8); exposed culmen, 11; 

 tarsus, 20-21 (20.2); middle toe, 13-15 (14.2).^ 



Adult female. — Forehead and crown olive-gray, the former becom- 

 ing paler anteriorly; rest of head, together with neck, back, scapulars, 

 rump, and wing-coverts plain yellowish olive-green;- the chest, breast, 

 sides, and flanks similar but slightl}' paler; the sides and flanks more 

 yellowish olive-green; lower abdomen and thighs j^ellowish white; 

 under tail-coverts canar}^ yellow; upper tail coverts gray or olive-gray, 

 tinged with 3'ellowish olive; remiges, primary- coverts, alula, and rec- 

 trices black with graj'ish edges (more olive-greenish on secondaries); 

 inner webs of three or four outer rectrices with a large space of white 

 near middle portion; bill, legs, and feet as in adult male; length 

 (skins), 200-210(205); wing, 94; tail, lH; exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 

 19-21 (20); middle toe, 13. '' 



Young.- — AboN'e plain light gravish brown (nearl}" broccoli brown), 

 the upper tail-coverts darker brown; remiges, rectrices, etc., as in adult 

 female; undin- parts paler grayish brown anteriorlj-, gradually becom- 

 ing paler and more yellowish posteriorly, the under tail-coverts pale 

 yellow (primrose) with grayish base; bill and feet brownish. 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Volcan de Irazu, Volcan de Cartago, San 

 Jose, llancho lledondo, jSavarro, etc.), and Chiriqui (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui). 



PtUogonys caudatus Cabanis, Journ. fiirOrn., Nov., 1860 (pub. May, 1861), 402 

 (Irazu, Costa Rica; coll. Berliu Mus. ). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 

 413 (San Jose and Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica). — Sclater and Salvix, 

 Exoti(! Orn., pt. i, 1866, 11, pi. 6 (2 figs.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. X. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 97 (San Jos6; Volcan de Irazii). — Fraxtzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1869, 295 (Irazu).— Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 185 (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui, Chiriqui). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 53 (oak forests 

 Volcan de Irazu and Navarro). — Salvix and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1883, 219.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 224 (Volcan de 

 Irazu and Volcan de Cartago). — Zeledo*, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 

 1887, 108 (Volcan de Irazii; La Palma de San Jose; Rancho Redondo de 

 San Jose).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ill, 1902. 58 (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft.; habits). 



[Phlogom/i^] cdudalus Gray, Hand-li^^t, i, 1869, 366, no. 5569. — Sclater and 

 Salvix, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 1.'!. 



[Sphenotelus'] caudatus Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 412, in text. 



P[tiliogonys'] caudatus Ridgwav, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 464, footnote. 



" Occasionally there is a small white spot on next to tlu- middle pair. 

 ^ Five specimens. 

 <^ Two specimens. 



