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Benito; El Salto), and southward through Guatemala to northern 

 Honduras. 



PhwiiicotltraupiK rubicus (not SaUator rubicus Vieillot) Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (tierra caliente, Vera Cruz)- 



Phxnicothranph fuscicanda (not of Cabanis) Lawrence, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 4, 1876, 19 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). 



(?) Phamicothraupis fascicauda (not of Lawrence) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. 

 Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Naranjo, Guatemala). 



Phcenicothraupis salvini Berlepsch, Ibis, 5th ser., i, Oct., 1883, 487, pi. 13 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Count von Berlepsch). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 303, j^art (Vera Cruz; Guichicovi, Oaxaca; Corosal and 

 Belize, British Honduras; Chisec, Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 200, part (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Belize and Corosal, British 

 Honduras; Chisec, Guatemala). 



PlKjenicotliraupis mhiiii nalvini Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 

 1901, 150, in text. 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS SALVINI LITTORALIS (Nelson). 

 TABASCO ANT TANAGER. 



Similar to P. s. sahnru^ hut adult male nutoh more purplish or rosy 

 red and adult female and immature male much more reddish, with 

 throat deep ochraeeous-buff or dull orange to ochraceous-rut'ous tinged 

 with red instead of yellow, and under parts of bod}' tawn3'-ochraceous 

 to cinnamon-rufous, tinged with red medially. 



Adnit iiKiJe. — Above plain deep brick red; wings grayish brown 

 (deep hair brown), v.ith brick red edgings, this color occupying whole 

 outer web of tertials; primaries edged for basal half with pale brick 

 red, for terminal portion with pale grayish brown; median portion of 

 crown and occiput poppy red, the feathers with tips extensively dark 

 reddish brown; lores, suborbital region, anterior portion of malar 

 region, chin, and sides of upper throat dusky brownish gray or sooty; 

 throat poppy red; rest of under parts changing from dark or dull 

 popp3^ red on chest to paler, more vinaceous, red on abdomen and to 

 dark vinaceous on flanks; under tail-coverts pale poppy red or deep 

 flesh-pink, tinged with grayish on median portion of each feather; bill 

 black, the mandible sometimes more brownish basally; legs light horn 

 brownish, the toes somewhat darker; length (skins), 205.7-21;^.! 

 (208.3); wing, 101.6-106.7 (10J:.4); tail, lt0.4-*>9.8 (9.5.5); exposed cul- 

 men, 17.8-19.8 (19.1); depth of bill at base, 10.2-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 

 25.4-28.2 (26.7); middle toe, 16-17.5 (16.8).' 



Adult female. — Above deep mars brown, the center of crown and 

 occiput more or less strongly tinged with brownish red; lores, subor- 

 bital region, anterior portion of malar region, and chin dull grayish or 

 brownish gray; throat varying from orange-])uti' to deep salmon-color 

 or dull Saturn red; chest cinnamon-rufous or deep tawn}^, fading into 

 tawny-ochraceous or paler cinnamon-rufous on abdomen, the sides and 



^ Six specdmens. 



