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stripe of clear rose red, broadest over lores, where encroaching- on 

 sides of forehead, becomino- much narrower from above the eye back- 

 ward, the supra-auricular portion white or pale rose pink; lower half 

 of lores, suborbital region, auricular region, and sides of neck uniform 

 slate-black; malar region, chin, throat, chest, abdomen, under tail- 

 coverts, anterior lesser wing-coverts, and marginal under wing-coverts 

 clear rose red (the feathers grajnsh dusky basally); sides, flanks, and 

 thighs dark slate color or nearly slate-black; under wing-coverts 

 (except those along edge of wing) pale gray centrally, broadly mar- 

 gined with white; maxilla dark horn color basally, pale brownish or 

 whitish terminally (sometimes for more than terminal half) and along 

 tomia; mandible pale yellowish brown or whitish; length (skins), 

 190-201 (194.7); wing, 83-88 (85.6); tail, 81-89 (85.7); exposed culmen, 

 19.5-21.8 (20.6); depth of bill at nostrils, 6.5-7 (6.8); tarsus, 26-28.5 

 (27.3); middle toe, 18.5-21 (19.5). ' 



Adult female. — Pattern of coloration exactly as in adult male, 

 but the rose red replaced by clear, rich tawny, the lower abdomen 

 more or less extensively white, and the slate-black of upper parts 

 slightly more slaty, the flanks decidedly so; length (skins), 180-190 

 (185.5); wing, 77-82.5 (80); tail, 77-81 (79.8); exposed culmen, 19-21.5 

 (19.8); depth of bill at nostrils, 6-7 (6.7); tarsus, 26-28 (26.8); middle 

 toe, 18-19.5 (19). 1 



Iinmature male. — Similar to the adult female, but superciliary stripe 

 red, instead of tawny, anteriorly, chin, throat, and malar region 

 strongly tinged with red (especially the latter), and tawny of under 

 parts much more restricted, and darker, slightly tinged with red on 

 breast. 



hmnature female. — Similar to the adult female, but greater wing- 

 coverts margined terminally with tawny and tawny supraloral space 

 narrower and less sharpl}^ defined. 



Young in first plumage. — "All over blackish, with a few rufous 

 edges to the wing-coverts; underneath mottled like a 3"oung blackbird,'^ 

 the features sandy buff, with broad black edges; the center of the 

 abdomen somewhat whiter; over the eye a broad streak of white." ^ 



Isthmus of Panama and north to southern Costa Rica. 



Rhodinocichla rosea (not of Sclater, 1855, * not Furnarius roseus Lesson) Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 140 (David, Chiriqui). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., vii, 1861, 292 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.); ix, 1868, 92 (Costa 

 Pica). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 345 (Lion Hill). — 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 91, footnote, part (Panama R. R. ). — Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 133 (Santa F6, Veragua, and David, Chiriqui; 

 crit. ); 1870, 180 (Calovevora, Chitra, and Mina de Chorcha, Veragua). — 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 291 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, 



^ Ten specimens. ^ Merula merula (Linnjsus) . 



»Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 367. 



*Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 (Bogota, Colombia); — R. rosea rosea (Lesson). 



