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chest more .stront>ly tinged with olive and with the dusk}- ba.sal .spots 

 more pronounced, and with more or less concealed spots of black; 

 thig-hs ])lack; rest of under parts clear gambog-e yellow, paler on under 

 tail-coverts, especially the longer ones, which are nearly white; rump 

 yellow or olive-yellow; hack, scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail 1)lack; a wdiite spot at base of primaries, but no white on wing- 

 coverts nor on tail; upper ])ack (sometimes median line of back also), 

 more or less varied with olive-j^ellow; maxilla Idackish; mandilde more 

 grayish (plumbeous in life?); legs and feet dusky (graj-ish in life?). 



Imimiture. — Scapulars and interscapulars broadly margined with 

 olive-yellow; rump and hindneck indistinctl}^ streaked with dusky; 

 secondaries and wing-coverts narrowly edged with olive; throat and 

 chest plain gamboge yellow, like rest of under parts; mandil)le Avhitish. 



Adult male.— \u^\\^\X\ (skins), 210.82-2l!^.(»l) (211.58); wing, KXi.US- 

 11-1.30 (111.25); tail, 73.15-80.52 (76.71); culmen, 21.59-22.86 (22.10); 

 depth of bill at base, 18.51:; tarsus, 24.13-25.65 (25.15); middle toe, 

 16.51-17.78 (17.27). 



Adiiltfeniale.—\jQ\\^\h{^\:m^), 198.12-205.74(200.66); wing, 106.68- 

 112.78 (110.49); tail, 74.42-78.74 (75.{)5); culmen, 20.32-22.10(21.34); 

 depth of bill at })ase, 18.20-19.81 (19.05); tarsus, -25.40-26.16 (25.65); 

 middle toe, 17.27-18.03 (17.78). 



Highlands of C'ostii Rica (Cervantes, Tucurrique, San Jose, Rancho 

 Redondo, Turrialba, Navarro, Volcan de Irazii, etc.), and Veragua 

 (Calovevora, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, Caloljre, etc.). 



Pheudicus lihialis "Baird, MS." Lawrence, Ann. Lyo. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 

 May, 1867, 478 (Cervantes, Costa Ric-a; coll. U. "s. Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868, 102 

 (Tucurrique, Cervantes, San Jose, and Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica) .■ — Sal- ' 

 VADORi, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, iv, 1869, 177, pi. 5 (Costa Rica). — 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 300 (Turrialba, Costa Rica). — Salvin, 

 Proi'. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 189 (Calovevora, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, and 

 Calobre, A''eragua). — Boucarj), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 58 (Navarnj and 

 Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 8; 

 An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Rancho Redondo de San Jose, El 

 Zarcero de Alajuela, Cartago, etc.). — Nutting, Proc. L". S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 

 495 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1884, 335.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. INIus., xii, 1888, 53 (Irazu dis- 

 trict, Valza, etc., Costa Rica; Calovevora, Veragua). 



[^Plieucticns'] f*7>(((//.s Sclater and Salvin, Noiu. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27. 



[GoniajiJifa'] t Uiiali.-^ Gr\y, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7551. 



Genus PYRRHULOXIA Bonaparte. 



Pyrrlmloxia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Aug. 15, 1850, 500. (Type, Cardinalis 

 sinuatw Bonaparte. ) 



Conspicuousl}^ crested, short-winged, long-tailed Fringillidas with 

 short, thick, strongly curved bill, the adult male with plumage partly 

 red. 



Bill very short, thick, and deep, with culmen strongly conve" and 



