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black; crown (except laterall}') and occiput chestnut, the feathers 

 elongated; rest of head and neck (including lores and superciliary 

 region), together with back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and rump 

 uniform bluish slate color; wings blackish with slate colored edgings; 

 upper tail-coverts black, usually margined with slaty; tail black, the 

 three outermost rectrices extensively white at tip; under parts of 

 body saffron or cadmium yellow, usuall}' deeper and more brownish 

 yellow on chest; under tail-coverts white, slate color, or slate-gray 

 basally; axillars and under wing-coverts white; bill, black; iris, 

 brown; legs and feet blackish. 



Young in first phnncKje. — Above, including whole pileum, uniform 

 sooty slate; beneath similar but paler, the chest strongly tinged with 

 rusty or cinnamon;^ wings and tail essentially as in adults. 



Adult male.— \j^w^\h (skins), 118-128 (121); wing, 58-66 (63.1); tail, 

 55.5-62 (59.5); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.4); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.7).' 



Adult female.— \^^w%\h (skins), 120-127 (124.2); wing, 58-63 (61); 

 tail, 56-62 (58.8); exposed culmen, 8-10 (9.2); tarsus, 18-19 (18.6).' 



Highlands of (Josta Rica (Dota, Grecia, Barranca, Cartago, Naranjo, 

 Turrialba, Tucurrique, Candelaria, etc.) and Chiriqui (Volcan de Chi- 

 riqui, Boquete, Calovevora, etc.). 



Setophaga flamynea (notof Kaup) Cabani8, Journ. fiirOrn., 1861,85 (Costa Rica). — 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 259, itart (ref. tuCaljanis, loc. cit. and locality 

 "Costa Rica"). 



[Setophaga miniata.] Subsp. a. Setopluiga Ji(xmmea Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., 

 X, 1885, 419, part (loc. " Costa Rica ") . 



Setophaga aurantiaca Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 261 (Dota, Costa Rica; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mas. ).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 96 (Grecia, 

 Barranca, and Dota, Costa Rica). — Salvin, Iliis, 1869, 313 (Costa Rica; crit.); 

 1878, 310 (monogr.); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 183 (Yolcan de Chiriqui 

 and Calovevora, Veragua). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 29-4 (Cande- 

 laria Mts., Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 83 (Cartago 

 and Naranjo, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1881, 182 (Turrialba and Tucurrique, Costa Rica, etc.). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 421.— Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 

 528 (Costa Rica; crit.); Anal. Inst. Fis.-Geog. Nac. Costa Rica, vi, 1893, 13 

 (Rio Naranjo). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 107 (Cartago 

 and Dota, Costa Rica). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 61 

 (Boquete, Chiriqui, 4,000 to 4,500 ft.). 



[Setophaga'] ((urantiaca Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 24:>, no. 3525. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



Setophaga rcrticalis (notof Lafresnaye and D'Orljigny) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 166 (Veragua). 



^ The first plumage of the only young example examined is incomplete, the yellow 

 of the under parts of the body of the adult plumage having been acquired. 

 ^ Seven specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



