106 BULLETIiSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



uiidei'parts lig-ht 3'ellowish olive, more g-rayi.sh on chin and throat, niori^ 

 yellow on middle of breast and upper part of abdomen, the lower por- 

 tion of the latter, with anal region and under tail-coverts, whitish; 

 length (skin), 96.52; wing, 63.75; tail, 37.50; exposed culmen, 9.65; 

 depth of bill at base, 8.13; tarsus, 13.21; middle toe, lO.-ll.' 



Young. — Above buffy yellowish olive; beneath buffy l)rownish yel- 

 low, paler, more sulphur 3'ellow, on abdomen, etc. ; wings and tail 

 dusky, or dark grayish brown; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with light buff}-; tertials broadly edged terminally with 

 dull white; secondaries edged for terminal half with dull ])uff, and pri- 

 maries edged with light olive; rectricos' edged with light yellowish 

 olive; no ^^ellow at base of remiges or rectrices. 



Costa Rica to Venezuela and Ecuador. 



Cltri/somiirls xanthogastra Dc Bus, Bull. Roy. Ac. Belg., xxii, pt. i, 1855, 152 

 (near Ocana, Colombia).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 

 781 (^lerida, Venezuela), 785, part (Merida, Venezuela; Ocana and Bogota, 

 Colombia; Costa Rica); 1879, 508. — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 321 (Ocana, Canute, 

 and Cauca Valley, Colombia, 5,000-6,000 ft. ).— Zeledon, Cat. Aves. de Costa 

 Rica, 1882, 9. 



[Chvysomitris] xanthogaMra Sclater and Salvix, Xom. Av. Neotr., 18T3, 34, part 



(Venezuela to Costa Rica) . 

 Clirijsomitris xouthogaster SALXiii and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 430, part, pi. 31, fig. 3 (Dota, Frailes, and Irazu, Costa Rica; Colombia; Vene- 

 zuela; Ecuador).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 209. 



Spinas xanthogastra Zeledox, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112 (Cartago, 

 Sarchi,' and Dota, Costa Rica) . 



Chn/somitris bryanti Cassix, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 91 (Dota, Costa Rica; 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.).— Stimpsox, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1868, 128, pi. 17.— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. X. Y.,ix, 1868, 104 (Costa Rica). — Fraxtzius, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1869,302 (Costa Rica).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 56 

 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica). 



{Friiigilla} bryanti Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 81, no. 7191. 



[Fri)igiUa'] columbiana (not Carduelis columhianas Lafresnaye) Gray, Hand-list, 

 ii, 1870, 81, no. 7187, part (fide Sharpe). 



Genus LOXIMITRIS Bryant. 



Lo.r/»j*7r(S Bryaxt, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 1866, 9:5. (Type, (linjxoini- 

 tris dominiccnsis Bryant. ) 



Similar to Sjjhuis but bill much stouter, more swollen, and less acute 

 (depth at Irase nearly e(j[ual to length of maxilla from nostril); wing- 

 more rounded (ninth primarv shorter than seventh) and wings without 

 any A'ellow. 



Range. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (]Monotypic.) 



^Oue specimen, from Dota, Costa Rica. 



