13G BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TACHYPHONUS NITIDISSIMUS Salvin. 

 VERAGUAN WHITE-SHOULDERED TANAGER. 



Similar to T. axillaris^ ))ut adult male with colored ci'own-pateh much 

 larger, con.spicuousl}' exposed, and orange- rufous instead of yellow; 

 adult female apparently duller yellow below. 



Adult male. — General color uniform deep y)lack; pileum with a 

 median, partlj^ concealed, patch or stripe of orange-ochraceous; lessi^r 

 and middle wing'-coverts w^hite, excepting- those ])ord(M"ing- the carpal 

 region; axillars and under wing-covert region white, the latter with 

 a broad ])lack exterior border; bill black, with rami whitish (extend- 

 ing more than halfway to tip of mandible, the anterior extremity 

 pointed); tarsi light horn color (in dried skins), toes darker; hnigth 

 (skins), 124.5-134.6 (128.8); wing, 66-68.8 (67.6); tail, 58.4-60.2 (59.2); 

 exposed culmen, 18-14.5 (18.7); depth of bill at base, 6.6-6.9; tarsus, 

 17.8-19.3 (18.5); middle toe, 10.7.' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult female of T. Ju,ctuom(ii. but 

 without gray on sides of head, etc., and throat more l)uffy; above plain 

 yellowish olive-green, including pileum and hindneck; sides of head 

 lighter and duller olive-greenish, the feathers of auricular region with 

 dull whitish or pale yellowish shaft-streaks; lores and malar region 

 paler than auricular regi()n and inclining to dull l)rownish Inilfy; chin 

 and throat pale butfy yellowish, the feathers whitish beneath surface; 

 chest, sides, and flanks dull yellowish olive or olive-yellowish, passing 

 into 3'ellow on ])reast and abdomen; under tail-coverts paler and duller 

 yellow; under wing-coverts dull white, slightly tinged with yellow; bill 

 as in adult male ])ut more brownish; legs and feet pale brownish (in 

 dried skin); length (skin), 119.4; wing. 68.5; tail, 59.2; exposed cul- 

 men, 14,5; depth of bill at })ase, 7.1; tarsus, 18; middle, 10.4.^ 



Veragua, Cyhiriqui, and southwestern Costa Rica (Pirris). 



Tdchyphinms iiUidmhitux Salvin, Prot-. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1<S7(), 188 (Bugabu, 

 Chiriqui; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibi.s, 1874, 308, in text. — Ridgwav, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 412 (Pirris, 8. w. Coata Rica; crit.).— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Aves, i, 1883, 312, part, pi. 21, fig.'!. 2, 3 

 (Bugabu and Vivahi, Chiriqui). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1SS(>, 

 214, part (l>u<fab;i, Chiricpii). — Zelkdon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Kica, i, 1887, 

 110, part (Pozo Azul de Pirris, Costa Rica). 



\_T(U'hiiphnniiK'\ uitUlixxinivx Sclatrh and Salvin, Noui. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



TACHYPHONUS DELATRII Lafresnaye. 

 TAWNY-CRESTED TANAGER. 



Adult male. — Uniform sooty black, including under wing-coverts; 

 median portion of crown and occiput with a patch of bright tawny or 

 orange-ttiwny (more 3'ellowish basally), composed of stifl'ened and 



^ Three specimens; two from Chiriqui, one from Pirris, Costa Rica. 

 '^Ono specimen, from Bugaba, Chiri(iui; this, from which the descrij)tion is taken, 

 is in rather worn plumage. 



