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RAMPHOCELUS DIMIDIATUS LIMATUS (Bangs). 

 SAN HIGUEL TANAGER. 



Similar to i?. d. isthmicm, but smaller; adult male with head, neck, 

 and back lighter crimson-maroon, lesser and middle wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with crimson-maroon, greater coverts and tertials 

 edged with a duller shade of the same, dusk}" of abdomen more 

 restricted, sometimes obsolete; adult female similar in coloration to 

 ^. d. isthmicKS^ but averaging rather paler and decidedly smaller, 

 especially the tail. 



Adidt male.—l^&ngth. (skins), M8.6-152.4 (151.1); wing, 75.7-78.7 

 (77); tail, 01-01). 3 (07.1); exposed culmen, 13.2-11.7 (13.7); greatest 

 width of mandibular rami, 1.0-5.1 (1.8); tarsus, 19.1-20.8(20.1); mid- 

 dle toe, 13-11(13.2).' 



Adult fetiude.—l^Qngih (skins), 110.1-117.3 (110.0); wing, 73.2-75.7 

 (71.1); tail, 01.8-08.0 (60.5); exposed culmen, 11-11.7 (11.2); greatest 

 width of mandibular rami, 1.1-1.0 (1.3); tarsus, 19.8-20.0 (20.1); mid- 

 dle toe, 12.1-13.2 (12.7).'' 



Island of San Miguel, Bay of Panama. 

 Ehamphocelus Umatus Bangs, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1901, 31 (San Miguel I., Bay of 

 Panama; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



RAMPHOCELUS UROPYGIALIS Bonaparte. 

 MAROON-HEADED TANAGER. 



Adult male. — "Above brownish ])lack; lower part of rump and upper 

 tail-coverts bright crimson; head and neck all round dark crimson; 

 abdomen bright crimson, with a central patch on the belly and slight 

 fiammidations on the sides black; thighs black; bill black; lower man- 

 dible except the tip bluish white; feet brown; whole length, 172.7; 

 wing, 83.8; tail, 78.7.=' 



' ^Habitat. — Guatemala. 



"This species is most like R. luciani, but at once recognizable by 

 the biood-red uropygium and upper tail-coverts, the rest of the back 

 being dark brownish black. The type specimen is at present unique." 

 (Sclater.) 



(?) llampliocelus a ffinis LiESSON, Rev. Zool., iii, 1840, 1 (Mexico). 



(?) R\_amphocelus] affinis Lesson, Rev. Zool., iii, 1840, 133 (Colom])ia; fuller 



description) . 

 Eamphocelus uropygialis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., iii, Apr., 1851, 178 



(Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater); Note sur les Tang., 1851, 29. — Sclater, 



^ Seven specimens. 



^ Two specimens. 



^Measurements converted from inches and tenths. 



