140 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AdHlti< {sexeM alike). — Head and neck plain gray, darker on pileum 

 (dull slate-gray, slightly tinged with oliv(^), paler (smoke gray) on chin 

 and throat; upper parts (except of head and neck) plain yellowish olive- 

 green (as in Jt". cris/dta): under parts, posterior to throat, deep saffron 

 yellow (as in Ji'. ('/■isfatn), deeper on chest, lighter and purer yellow on 

 abdomen and undcM- tail-coverts, the sides and flanks slightly tinged 

 with olive; bill black; legs and feet pale ])urty )>rownish (in dried 

 skins). 



Adiflf ?;^r//.^— Length (skins), 151.1-1<;0 (150); wing, 8T.6-92.5 

 (89.9); tail, U. 2-77. 7 (75.9); exposed culmen. 12.4-13.2 (12.7); 

 depth of bill at Imse, 6. 0-7. 4- (0.9); tarsus. 21..S; middle toe, 14.7- 

 15.2 (15).^ 



Adult fciiKilc. — Length (skins), 153.7 (one specimen); wing, S8.1- 

 84.0 (83.S); tail, 71.0-73.4 (72.4); exposed culmen, 13.7-14.2 (14); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), O.'.t; tarsus, 21.8-22.1; middle 

 toe, 15.7.' 



Costa Rica (Trojas de Puntarenas; Nicoya; Tempate; Volcan de 

 Miravalles) and Nicaragua (Suciiya; Virgin Bay; Hato Viejo). 



CJilorospingtis sporlorrplKtla Bonaparte, C/ompt. Rend., xxxix, LS54, 922 (Nica- 

 ragua; coll. Delattre); Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 22. 



Chloroitpingiis K]iodocephaht.'< Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 91 (monogr. ; 

 Ni(;aragua) ; Synop. A v. Tanagr., 1856, 29. 



Eucometis spodocephala Sclater, Cat. Am. Birdn, 1862, 84 (Nicaragua); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 219, part (Virgin Bay, Lake Nicaragua; Nicoya, Costa 

 Rica). — Salvin, Ibin, 1872, .316 (Virgin Bay, Lake Nicaragua). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 100 (Costa Rica). — Frantzics, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1869, 299 (Costa Rica).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 188.3, 44,3 (Costa 

 Rica).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 307, pi. 20, 

 fig. 2, part (Virgin Bay and Hato Viejo, Nicaragua; Tempate, Costa Rica). — 

 NcTTiNG, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus.,vi, 1884, .382 (Sucuy a, Nicaragua; habits). — 

 Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 110 (Trojas <le Puntarenas, 

 Costa Rica). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 435 (Volcan de ^liravidles, Costa 

 Rica; habits). 



\_En('<iiui't'iK'] sjt<)(l()ci'/>Ji<ihi Sclater and Salvin, Noul Av. Neotr., 1873, 23, part. 



EUCOMETIS SPODOCEPHALA PALLIDA Berlepsch. 

 YUCATAN GBAY-HEADED TANAGER. 



Similar to K .<^. spodocep/iahi, but lighter colored; gray of chin and 

 throat decidedly paler; olive-green of upper parts clearer, less 

 "golden;" yellow of under parts lighter and clearer, nearer lemon 

 yellow than saffron yellow; length (skins), 153.7-102.0 (158); wing, 

 k.8-S3.3 (82.0); tail, 71.1-73.4 (72.1); exposed culmen. 12.7-13; depth 



' Two specimens, from Sucuya, Nicaragua. - 



