184 bullj:tin 50, united states national museum. 



Peru; Qiiixos, e. Ecuador; Bogotii an<l Santa Marta, Colombia; Tobago; 

 Trinidad); 1860, 274 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuador), 292 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador) ; 

 Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 38; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 85 (Trinidad; Bolivia; 

 Colombia; Esnieraldas, Ecuador); Cat. Birdw Brit. Mus., part, xi, 1886, 208 

 (Panama and Chepo, Isthmus Panama; Santa Marta, Remedios, and Bogota, 

 Colombia; Santa Rita and Esmeraldas, P^cuador; Bolivia; Engenho do Gama, 

 Brazil; Trinidad; Bartica Grove, British Guiana) . — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1860, 141 (Rio Truando, n. Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1861, 297 (Panama R. R. ). — Sclatek and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, .351 (Panama R. R.); 1868, 167 (Venezuela); 1879, 503 (Antioquia, 

 Colom1)ia), 601 (Bolivia).— Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 582 

 (Trinidad).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 188 (Veragua); Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 194 (Bolivia?; Trinidad); Ibis, 1885,211 (British Gui- 

 ana). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 332 (w. Ecuador). — Ber- 

 LEPSCH and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 547 (Chimbo, 

 w. Ecuador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 310, part 

 (Chepo, Isthmus Panama; South American localities and references). — Ber- 

 LEPSCH and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 574 (w. Ecuador). — 

 Berlepsch, Journ. fi'irOrn., 1884, i92 (Bncaramanga, Colombia); 1889, 297 

 (Sarayacu and Ucayali, e. Peru; crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. ]Mus. X. II., 

 ii, 1889, 82 (Reyes, Bolivia).— Rikek and Chapman, Auk, vii, 1890, 267 

 (Santarem, lower Amazon). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 31 

 (Trinidad). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 

 357, 1899, 18 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador). 



[TacJii/j)}ioiu(i<'] /»r<«o.s-i(.s ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23, part. 



Pyranga Iw-tuom D'Orbionv, Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois., 18.39, 2(53, j)!. 20, figs. 1 

 (male), 2 (female). 



[Lani(i] tenuiroslris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 240. 



TiicliiiphoiuixiilliiKpi'ciilUtrix Leotai'd, Ois., Trinidad, 18()(j, ;!00. 



TACHYPHONUS AXILLARIS Lawrence. 

 COSTA RICAN WHITE-SHOULDERED TANAGER. 



Similar to T. ititkli.wuiniK^ hut adult male with colored erowu-pateh 

 mueli smaller, concealed, and yellow instead of orano-e-rufous; adult 

 female apparently brighter yellow below. 



Adult male. — Uniform deep ])lack, with lesser, middle, and under 

 wing'-coverts and axillars white; center of crown usually with a small, 

 mostly concealed, spot of yellow; bill black, the mandible with a pale 

 bluish gra}" or whitish space on each side covering the rami and pro- 

 jecting forward in an acute angle to about midway between gonydeal 

 angle and tip of mandible; iris brown; legs and feet dusk}' or dark 

 brownish in dried skins (bluish in life?); length (skins), 120. 7-134. <! 

 (129); wing, 63.2-65.S (O-I-.S); tail, 56.9-.58.7 (57.7); exposed culmen, 

 12.1-12.7; depth of bill at ])ase, 5.8-6.1; tarsus, 17-18.3(17.5); middle 

 toe, 10.7-11.4 (10.9).' 



Adult female. — Above yellowish olive-green, slightly darker and 

 duller on head, where sometimes slightly grayish on forehead and super- 

 ciliary region; beneath lemon yellow medially shading into yellowish 



' Thre(> specimens. 



