772 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 38, part (Costa Rica; David; Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; *Mina de Chorcha; Chitra; Calovevora; Santa Fe; Lion Hill). — 

 Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 366, part (Costa Eica; Veragua). — 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 18&3, 609 (Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa 

 Rica; crit.). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, i, Aves, 1893, 4 (Buenos 

 Aires, Costa Rica; descr. male and female). — Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 368 

 (Divala, Chiriqui) ; Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 60 (Boquete, 

 3,000 to 3,500 ft., and Bogaba, Chiriqui). 



IRhodinockhlal rosea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 3, part. 



IRhodinocichla roseal ex. rosea Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Dec. 10, 1878, 

 247 (diagnosis). 



RHODINOCICHLA SCHISTACEA Ridgway. 

 MEXICAN THRTJSH-WARBLER. 



Similar to E. r. eximia, hut with black of upper parts replaced by 

 slate color, that of the flanks by slate-gray; wing and tail decidedly 

 longer, feet smaller. 



Adult male. — Upper parts, including sides of neck, plain slate color, 

 the feathers with slightly darker centers, especialh^ the scapulars, 

 interscapulars, and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail darker, the 

 former with distinct edgings of paler slate color or slate-gray, these 

 most conspicuous on middle and greater coverts; a superciliary stripe 

 of pure rose red, becoming whitish or pale rose pink posteriorly 

 (above auricular region)^ broadest anteriorly, where encroaching on 

 sides of forehead; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions deep slate 

 color; sides and flanks and thighs plain grayish slate or slate-gra}^, 

 paler on flanks; malar region, chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and car- 

 pal region, clear rose red, most intense anteriorh^, the feathers dusky 

 basally, except on chin, throat, and malar region, where bases of 

 feathers are whitish; under wing-coverts pale gray broadly margined 

 with white, those along edge of wing rose red; maxilla brownish black 

 with paler tomia; mandible pale grayish horn color (in dried skins); 

 iris brown ;^ legs and feet horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 200-219 (207.5); wing, 86-90 (88.3); tail, 80.5-93 (89.3); exposed cul- 

 men, 20-22 (20.5); depth of bill at nostrils, 6.5-7 (6.8); tarsus, 2tl:-26 

 (25.4); middle toe, 17-19 (18. 1)."' 



Adult female.— SmiW^v to the adult male, but slate color of upper 

 parts slightly browner, rose red of superciliar}" stripe and under parts 

 replaced by tawny, superciliary stripe white for posterior half or 

 more, and lower abdomen parth' white, or whitish; length (skins), 197- 

 208 (203.3); wing, 83-85 (84); tail, 83-86 (84.6); exposed culmen, 18- 

 19 (18.5); depth of bill at nostrils, 6-6.2 (6.1); tarsus, 25; middle toe, 

 18-19 (18.3).' 



Western Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan), Jalisco (Ixtapa), 

 and Colima (Colima; Sierra ]Madre), and Territory of Tepic (Santiago). 



''According to Grayson, manuscript. ^ Seven specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



