442 TJFLLETIN 50, T^NITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



mark with the upcx at tlie rictus; lores aiui orhitul ring (interrupted 

 on middle portion of upper eyelid), malar reg-ion. chin, throat, breast, 

 and abdomen Avhite, relieved by a narrow sii))nialar stripe or line of 

 black, and a large spot or patch of the same in middle of chest; back, 

 scapulars, wings, tail, upper tail-coverts, and rump olive or olive- 

 brown, becoming more grayish on up})er back, hindneck, and lesser 

 wing-coverts; sides of neck and sides of l)reast dull gray, passing into 

 buflf}^ grayish brown on sides and flanks; under tail-coverts pale bufl^'y; 

 bill black; legs and feet horn brownish. 



Young. — Similar to adults but colors much duller, the chestnut-rufous 

 of head replaced h\ rusty brownish, niore or less mottled or streaked 

 with dusky, the l)lack markings of head and chest duller and less 

 sharply detined; feathers of back. etc.. narrowly tipped with dusky; 

 greater wing-coverts narrowly tipped with pale fulvous, and w^hite of 

 under parts replaced ))y pale yellowish, more or less mottled with 

 dusky. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 138.43-15().T2 (150.37); wing. 6T.S2- 

 71.37 (69.09); tail, 56.H4-64.77 (61.72); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.46 

 (13.21); depth of bill at base. S. 38-8. 89 (8.64); tarsus. 24.38-26.42 

 (25.15); middle toe. 16.00-17.78 (17.27).' 



J.f7?^///(/H«/6^— Length (skins). 140.21-150.88 (145.54); wing, 63.75- 

 65.79 (64.77); tail, 58.42-59.44 (58.93); exposed culmen. 12.45-13.21 

 (12.95); depthof bill at base, 8.38; tarsus, 23.88-24.89 (24.38); middle 

 toe, 16.51-17.27 (17.02).' 



Highlands of Costa Rica (San Jose, (jrecia. Volcan de Irazu. Car- 

 tago, Navarro, Alajuela, etc.). 



Melozone biarcuafa (not Pi/rgita hiai-cuata Prevost) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 

 12 (San Jose, Costa Eica); 1866, 233, part (Costa Rica). — Reichexbaoh, 

 Singvogel, 1862, 36, pi. 13, fig. 109. 



PyrgisoDia biarcaatunt. (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 120, 

 part (Costa Rica). — Laavrexce, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 103 (San Jose, 

 Costa Rica). — Fraxtzus, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 301 (Costa Rica). 



Pyrgisoma kieneri (not of Bonaparte) Cassix, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 169 

 (Costa Rica). — Lawrexce, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 103, 145 (San Jose and 

 Grecia, Costa Rica). — Fraxtzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 302 (Costa Rica). 



Pj/rgisoma cabinim Sclater and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 324, 326 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica; coll. P. L. Sclater); Exotic Orn., 1868, 129, pi. 65, 

 tig. 1. — Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 314 (San Jos^). — Boucard, Proc. Zoo). Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 56 (San Jose; Cartago).— Nuttixg, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882,499 

 San Jose). — Salvix and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 403 (San 

 Jose, Grecia, and Irazii, Costa Rica). — Zeledox, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 

 i, 1887, 112 (Alajuela; San Jose; Grecia; Cartago; Navarro). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 734.— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 248 (San .J().se; 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs and young), 



Pyrgisoma cabanisii Zeledox, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9. 



[Pyrgieoma'] cabanisi Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873,33. 



' Five specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



