BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 4? 



black; rump bright opalescent greeu, chang-ing to l)lue on upper tail- 

 coverts, all the feathers blackish beneath the surface; lesser wing- 

 coverts rich blue (varying from cobalt to light smalt); rest of wings 

 and tail black with ])lue edgings; under parts of body, and under tail- 

 coverts, plain light cinnamon or cinnamon-ocher, paler next to squa- 

 mately marked feathers of chest; maxilla black, mandible blackish 

 terminally, horn color basally (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color 

 (in dried skins). 



Young [Jirst iMimage). — Head, neck, back, and scapulars dull black, 

 broken on sides of neck and on auricular region l>v pale greenish butfy 

 or buffy greenish tips to the feathers; lesser wing-coverts dull greenish 

 blue; rest of wings and tail dull blackish with greenish blue or bluish 

 green edgings; rump and upper tail-coverts dusky olive, the feathers 

 tipped with pale dull greenish; under parts of bodv and under tail- 

 coverts plain light cinnamon or cinnamon-ocher, paler on chest, Avhere 

 spotted with dusky. 



Adult m«^6.— Length (skins), 137. 2-144:. 8 (l-tl); wing, 68.6-70.6 

 (69.6); tail (one specimen), 19; exposed culmen (one specimen), 9.1; 

 depth of bill at base. 5.6-5.8; tarsus, 19.8; middle toe, 12. 2-12. 1.^ 



Adult female.— \^^\\^\h (skins), 129.5-132.1 (131.3); wing, 68.6-70.1 

 (69.3); tail, 16.5—1:9.3 (48); exposed culmen, 9.4; depth of bill at base, 

 6.1-6.1 (5.6); tarsus, 18.8-19.6 (19.1); middle toe, 11.9-12.2 (12.1).' 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Rancho Redondo; Turrialba; NaA^arro; Guad- 

 alupe; Cartago; Irazii; Quebrada Honda) and Veragua (Cordillera 

 del Chucu). 



Calliste doudi Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 168 ("San Jose," i. e., Eancho 

 Redondo de San Jose, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin-Godman?) ; 1870, 187 (Cor- 

 dillera del Chucu, Veragua); Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xiii, 

 1864, 104.— ScLATER, Ibis, 1863, 451, pi. 12 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 (San Jose, Turrialba, and Navarro, 

 Costa Rica).— Fraxtzius, Journ. fi'ir Orn., 1869, 298 (Guadalupe and San 

 Jose, Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 54 (Navarro, 

 Costa Rica).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 109 (Cartago? 

 and Rancho Redondo de San Jose) . 



ICalliste'] dowii Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 19. 



Calliste dowi Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 272 (Irazii, 

 etc., Costa Rica, etc.).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 124 (Que- 

 brada Honda, etc., Costa Rica, etc.). 



CALOSPIZA LARVATA LARVATA (Du Bus). 

 GOLDEN-MASKED TANAGER. 



Adult male. — Anterior portion of forehead and malar region, chin, 

 lores, and eyelids black; posterior portion of forehead, suborbital 

 region, and most of malar and auricular regions campanula blue, with 

 a narrow posterior margin of light greenish blue (nile blue); crown, 



1 Two specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



