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' EUCOMETIS CRISTATA (Du Bus). 

 GRAY-CRESTED TANAGER. 



Aditli^ {i<exes alike). — Head and neck gray, paler, and usually 

 streaked with whitish (sometimes inclining- to gi-ayish white) on malar 

 region, chin, and throat; crest slightly tinged with olive-yellowish; 

 lores and eyelids dusky gray; rest of upper parts, including lower 

 hindneck, plain yellowish olive-green; under parts of Iwd}- saffron 

 yellow, l:)ecoming gradually paler posteriorly, the under tail-coverts 

 more chrome yellow; l)ill black or brownish ])lack; legs and feet pale 

 bufty 1)rownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male.—Le.ngih (skins), 163.8-181.0 (l»;i».l); wing, 86.9-91.7 

 (9(».l); tail, 75.^^80.5 (78.^); exposed culmen, 18.7-15.7 (11.7); depth 

 of bill at base, 6.9-7.9 (7.1); tarsus, 21.6-2;^.9 (22.6); middle toe, 

 11.7-16.8 (15.5).^ 



Adult female.— l^^xxgih (skins), 172.2-172.7 (172.5); wing, 88.1-91.9 

 (89.7); tail, 71.2-81.8 (78.5); exposed culmen, 11.7-16 (15.2); depth of 

 bill at l)ase, 6.9-7.1 (7.1); tarsus. 21.3-21.6 (21.6); middle toe, 11.7-16 

 (15.2).^ 



Veragua (Chitra) to centi-al Colombia. 



Fipilopsis cristata Dv Bus, Bull. Ac. Ruy. Brux., xxxii, 1S55, 154. 



Eucometis cristata Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 185(3, US, part (monogr. ; 

 Santa Marta and Cartagena, Colombia); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 42; Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 84 (Santa Marta and Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 218, jjart (Panama and Paraiso Station, Panama R. R. ; Ari- 

 hueca, Santa Marta, Minca, and Bogota, Colombia). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

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

 N. Y., vii, 1861, 298 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 350 (Lion Hill).— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 121 

 (Santa Marta); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 306, part (Colombian refer- 

 ences and localities). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 142 (Santa 

 Marta).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 168 (Bonda, etc., prov. 

 Santa Marta). 



\_Euco7netis'] cristata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



Triehothraiipis peniciUata (not Tanngra penmllata Spix) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1855, 156 (Bogota). 



EUCOMETIS SPODOCEPHALA SPODOCEPHALA (Bonaparte). 

 GRAY-HEADED TANAGER. 



Similar to E. (■/•/'st(tta., ])ut gray of head and neck much darker; crest 

 less developed, with feathers distinctly outlined instead of blended; 

 tail shorter; bill nmch smaller. 



' Six specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



