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elongated narrow t'eathcn-s. forming a bushy crest when erected; bill 

 black, the rami and a little beyond dull whitish or pale grayish (in 

 dried skins); legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 142.2-149.9 (145.8); wing, 70.9-75.9 (74.2); tail, 63-65.8 (64.5); 

 exposed culmen, 12.4-13.5 (13); depth of bill at base, 6.6-6.9 (6.6); 

 tarsus, 19.8-20.6 (20.3); middle toe. 11.9-13 (12.4).' 



Adult female. — Head, neck, and chest light bistre brown, darker or 

 deeper on pileum and hindneck; back, scapulars, and lesser wing- 

 coverts plain dark bistre ])rown or sepia, passing into blackish brown 

 or sooty on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail brownish 

 black or sooty with paler (bistre brown or olive) edgings; under parts 

 shading gradually from light bistre (varying to almost raw umber) 

 anteriorly to sooty brow^n on under tail-coverts; maxilla blackish, man- 

 dible blackish or blackish l)rown, becoming indistinctly paler basally; 

 legs and feet dusky; length (skins), 134.6-142.2 (138.4); wing, 65-69.6 

 {m.^)\ tail, 59.4-60.7 (59.9); exposed culmen, 12.2-13.2 (12.7); depth 

 of bill at base, 5.8-6.4 (6.1); tarsus, 18.3-19.1 (18.5); middle toe, 11.9- 

 12.4 (12.2).' 



Costa Rica (Talamanca, Pacuare, San Mateo, etc.) and southward to 

 western Ecuador (Pallatanga, Pasto, etc.). 



Tdcliypliovvs ddatrii Lafuesnaye, Rev. Zool., x, Mar., 1847, 72 (San Buenaven- 

 tura, Colombia). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 116 (monogr. ; San 

 Buenaventura andGorgona, n. w. coast Colombia); (?) 1859, 139 (Pallatanga, 

 w. Ecuador); Synoi). Av. Tanagr., 1856, 40; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 86 

 (Bogota; Pallatanga?); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 215 (Santa F6 and 

 Santiago, Veragua; Panama; Gorgona I., Remedios, and Bogota, Colombia; 

 Pallatanga (?) and Pasto, w. Ecuador). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1860, 142 (Rio Truando, Colombia); 1865, 171 (Pacuare, Costa Rica).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 331 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 351 (Lion Hill); 1879, 

 503 (Antioquia, Colomlna) ; Exotic Orn., pt. v, 1868, 67, pi. 34, fig. of male, 

 not fig. of female.— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 140 (Santa Fe and 

 Santiago, Veragua). — Frantzius, Journ. fi'ir Orn., 1869, 299 (Costa Rica). — 

 Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 55 (San Mateo, Costa Rica; habits). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 312. — Zeledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac, Costa Rica, i, 1887, 110 (Pacuare, Costa Rica). 



Tachyphonus delatrei Lawrence, Ann. Lye, N. Y., ix, 1868, 100 (Payua, Costa 

 Rica) . 



[Tachyphanus] delattrii Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



T{(ichyphonus] delairii Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., 17.— Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 237. 



Chlorospingiis hrimnens Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, Marcli, 1874, 

 395 (" Volcan de Irazvi," i. e., Talamanca,'^ Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 female; see Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 308). 



' Six specimens. 



^ Three specimens. 



^According to Jose C. Zeledon, collector of the type s])ecimen. 



