770 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Range. — Western Mexico; Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela. 

 (Two species.) 



Althoug-h this genus, first placed in the Furnariid^, but usualh' 

 referred to either the Mimida or Troglodj'tidje, is very aberrant as a 

 member of the Mniotiltidte, I do not know Avhere else to place it. It 

 quite certainl}" does not belong to the first-named famil}-, being 

 unquestionably an oscine bird; nor can it belong to either of the other 

 two, which are both " ten-primaried " groups, while Rhodinocichla is 

 *"' nine-primaried," the tenth primary being very minute and entirely 

 concealed. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF RHODINOCICHLA. 



a. Superciliary stripe, throat, breast, etc., rose red. (Adult males.) 



h. Smaller (wing 81, tail 78, depth of bill at nostrils 5.5) } (Venezuela; Colombia.) 



Rhodinocichla rosea rosea, adult male (extralimitaP) 

 hh. Larger (wing 83-90, tail 82-93, depth of Ijill at nostrils 6.5-7). 

 c. Upper parts slate-black; flanks dark slate color; wing and tail shorter, feet 

 larger (wing averaging 85.6, tail 85.7, tarsus 27.3, middle toe 19.5). (Isth- 

 mus of Panama to southern Costa Rica. ) 



Rhodinocichla rosea eximia, adult male (jj. 770) 



cc. Upper parts slate color; flanks slate-gray; wing and tail longer, feet smaller 



(wing averaging 88.3, tail 89.3, tarsus 25.4, middle toe 18.1). (Western 



Mexico. ) Rhodinocichla schistacea, adult male (p. 772) 



aa. Superciliary stripe, throat, breast, etc., tawny. (Adult females.) 

 6. Smaller, with larger feet (wing 77-82.5, tail 78-84, tarsus 26-28). 



c. Bill more slender (depth at nostrils 5.8) ; upper parts slate color, flanks slate- 

 gray Rhodinocichla rosea rosea, adult female (extralimital) 



cc. Bill stouter (depth at nostril 6-7, averaging 6.7); upper parts slate-black, 



flanks slate color Rhodinocichla rosea eximia, adult female (p. 771) 



hh. Larger, with smaller feet (wing 83-85, tail 83-86, tarsus 25).''' 



Rhodinocichla schistacea, adult female (p. 772) 



RHODINOCICHLA ROSEA EXIMIA Ridgway. 

 PANAMA THRUSH- WARBLER. 



Similar to R. r. rosea, but larger, with stouter bill and decidedly 

 darker coloration. 



Advit male. — Upper parts uniform slate-black, the greater wing- 

 coverts more or less distincth^ edged with slate-gray; a siqierciliary 



^ Coloration intermediate between that of R. r. eximia and R. schistacea. 



Rhodinocichla rosea rosea (Lesson). 



Furnurins cost hs Lesson, Ulustr. ZooL, 1832-34, pi. 5 (San Juan, Brazil); Lafres- 

 naye. Rev. Zool., viii, 1845, 10 (Colombia; crit. ). — Rhodinocincla rosea Reich- 

 enbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., no. x, Scansoriae (Sittinae), Aug. 1, 1853, 148; 

 R[hodinoci}icla'] rosea Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., no. x, 1853, 201. — 

 Rhodinocichla rosea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 (Bogota, 

 Colombia). — Tardus vulpinus Hartlaub, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., i, 1849, 276 

 (Venezuela; coll. Bremen INIus.; = female). — Cichkdopia vulpina Bonaparte, 

 Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 6. 



■•' Coloration similar to that of R. rosea rosea, but flanks rather paler slate-gray. 



