220 AMPELID^. 



greenish ; fore neck olive-yellow, becoming brighter yellow on the 

 sides of the upper breast ; centre of breast and abdomen ashy grey, 

 the flanks also bright ycUow ; thighs black ; under tail-coverts olive- 

 yellow ; axillarics and under wing-covcrts olive-yeUow, with ashy 

 bases to the feathers ; quills blackish below, ashy brown along the 

 edge of the inner web ; bill and feet black. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 3- 75, tail S-ti, tarsus 1*05. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark yellowish olive, rather more dusky on the hind neck and 

 mantle ; wing-covcrts dusky ash-colour, externally olive, rather 

 yellower on the greater series ; bastard-wing ashy ; primarj'-coverts 

 dusky, externally edged with olive ; quills dusky, edged with olive- 

 yellow, duller on the secondaries ; tail-feathers dull ashy brown, 

 washed with olive-yellow on the outer web ; crown of head dusky 

 black, forming a cap, the frontal feathers edged with duU ashy; 

 lores, feathers above the eye, cheeks, aud ear-coverts dark ashy grey, 

 the latter washed with yellowish olive like the sides of the neck ; 

 throat dark ashy grey, with duU whitish shaft-streaks ; lower throat 

 and fore neck dark olive, slightly washed with brighter yellow; 

 sides of body and flanks bright yellow : centre of Ijreast and abdomen 

 dark ashy grey, inchniug to duU whitish on the latter ; thighs ashy ; 

 under tail-coverts olive-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 pale yellowish with dull ashy centres ; quills dusky below, ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 8'4 inches, culmen 0"7, 

 wing 3-85, tail 3'45, tarsus 1-1. 



Hab. Costa Eica. 



a, b. (S 2 ^^- ^^' Irazu district, Costa Rica Sclater Collection. 



(Sogers). 



4. PHAINOPEPLA. 



Type. 

 Ptilogonvs, pt., auct. 

 Phainopepla, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 543 P. nitens. 



Bill of Phainopepla nitens, to show position of nasal aperture. 

 Range. Southern United States and Mexico. 



1. Phainopepla nitens. 



Ptilogonys niteus, Sicains. Anini. in. Menag. p. 285 (1838) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 281 (1846) ; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 335 (1850) ; Cass. 

 Ulnsf. p. 169, pi. 29 (1854) ; Heerm. Pacif. Railroad Rep. x. p. 38 

 (1859) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 366, no. 5570 (1869). 



Hypothymis nitens, Lafr. 



Lepturus galeatus, Less. Rev, Zool, 1849, p. 4. 



