BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 165 



Lagniia, \ai-aiij(i, ami Navarro, Conta Kica). — Saivin and (iodman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Aiii., Avp.-i, i, 188.'), ;nr>.— Beklei'sch, .Tourn. fiir. Orii., 1884, 293 

 (Bucaramanga, Colombia; crit. ) — Taczanowskt, Orii. du Pcron, ii, 1885, 

 513.— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 110 (La Palina de San 

 Jose and Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Riea). — Salvadoim, Roll. Mus. ZooL, 

 ete., Torino, xii, 1897, 6 (San Lorenzo, Argentina). 



l^ChlorospingiDi] alhUempordlin Sci.ATEii and Sai.vix, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 24, 

 part. 



Chllowttpiiitjiis] oplillKthidcuA {not AiTi'indii- (iplilIiiiJniiriis Du Bus) Cabanis, Mus. 

 Hein., i, 1851, 139, footnote (Colond^a). 



[PvjL)(7op.sv.s] (ip]ifji<iliiiicii.<: Boxai'akte, Consji. Av., i, 1850, 485, part (Colombia). 



CHLOROSPINGUS PILEATUS Salvin. 

 SOOTY-CAPPED CHLOROSPINGUS. 



Adults {sexes al?'ke). — Pilcuni, hindneck, sides of nock, aurieukir 

 region, su1)oi-l)ital region, and lores dark sooty slate-color or ^ery dark 

 sootj" brown; a conspicuous broad white stripe beginning al)ove eye 

 (but separated from it by a nai'row space of dusky) and extending 

 backward to sides of hindneck; rest of upper parts plain olive- 

 green; malar region, chin, and throat white, or grayish Avhite, the 

 lower margin of the former marked with a dusk}' streak, the adjacent 

 portion of the throat faintly flecked with dusky; rest of under part.s 

 light yellowish olive-green or oli\'e-yellowish, th(> median portion of 

 breast and abdomen grayish whitt^; bill l)lack; legs and feet horn 

 color (in dried skin). 



Adult male.^Ijength (skins), 138-148 (138); wing, 67-72 (69.0); 

 tail, 58-63.5 (61.1); exposed culmen, 11.5-lS (11. i»); depth of bill at 

 base, 6-6>.5 (6.2); tar.sus, 22-23.5 (22.7); middle toe, 13-13.5 (13.3).^ 



Adu/t female.^l^ength (skins), 130-139 (135); wing, 62.5-72.5 

 (67.-t); tail, 56-64 (59.7); expo.sed culmen, 11.5-12 (11.8); depth of 

 bill at base, 6.5; tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.5); middle toe, 12-13 (12.7).' 



Young. — Head as in adults, but th(^ dusky color duller and the 

 white stripe on sides of occiput and nape less purely white and less 

 sharply defined; l)ack, etc., nuich duller and gray oi' olive-green; under 

 parts mostlv pale grayish, the sides and flanks slightly tinged with 

 light olive-green, the chest very faintly tinged with pale Inifiy olive 

 and obsoletely streaked laterally with gra3'ish; throat, etc., as in adults, 

 but more grayish; mandilile wholly light colored (bufiy whitish in 

 dried skins), and maxilla ^vith pale edge, except toward end. 



Highlands of Costa liica (Volcan de Cartago; Volcan de Irazu; 

 Volcan de Poas; Rancho Redondo; Pirris), and Chiriipu (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Boquete). 



CJdorospitujus pilealu.-! Saia-is, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1864, 581 (Volcan de Car- 

 tago, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman) . — L.wvrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 101 (Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godmax, Biol. 



^ Seven specimens (five from Chiriqui, two from Costa Rica). 

 ^ Five specimens from Chiri(jui. 



