33. EUCOMETIS, 219 



4. Eucometis spodocephala. 



Chlorospingus spodocephahis, Bp. Cmnpt. Eend. xxxix. p. 922; id. 



Notes Orn. p. 22 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856; p. 91 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. 



p. 29. 

 Eucometis spodocephala, Scl et Salv. Ibis, 1800, p. 274 (Guatemala); 



iid. F. Z. a. 1870, p. 836 (Honduras) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 23 ; Scl. Cat. 



A. B. p. 84 ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 139, 1870, p. 188 (Veragua) ; 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. 316 (Nicaragua) ; Lutvr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 130 



(Costa Rica); Frantz. J.f. O. 1809, p. 299 (Costa Rica); Boucard, 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 443 (Costa Rica) ; Salv. et Godm. Biol. Centr.- 



Atner., Aves, i. p. 307, t. xx. fig. 2. 



Above yellowish olive ; wings blackish, margined with yellowish 

 olive ; tail yellowish olive ; head slightly firested, dtirk cinereous : 

 beneath bright yellow, inclining to orange ; throat cinereous ; under 

 wing-coverts tinged with yellowish : whole length 6-7 inches, wing 

 3' 6, tail 3"1. Female similar. 



Hcib. South Mexico and Central America southwards to Chiriqui. 



This form is distinguishable from its southern ally E. cristata 

 by its shorter and much darker crest. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Northern Yucatan {Gaumer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Yucatan. Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. British Honduras (Blanca- Salvin-Godmau CoU. 



jieau.r). 



e. Ad. sk. Cohan, Vera Paz (Constancia). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Virgin Bav, Lake of Nicaragua Salvin-Godman Coll. 



JBridffe's). 

 g. Ad. sk. Nicaragua (Salle). Sclater Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Nicaragua {Kiitting). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i. Ad. sk. Nicoya, Costa Rica (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



_/. $ ad. sk. Santa F^, Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Jr. sk. Mina Chorcha, Chiriqui, Ve- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ragua (Arce). 



I. cJ ad. sk. Bugaba, Chiriqui (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. Jr. sk. Chiriqui (Arce). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



5. Eucometis cassini. 



TachA-phonus cassini, Laicr. Arm. L. N. Y. vii. p. 297 (Panama) ; 



Frantzius, J.f. O. 1869, p. 299 (Costa Rica). 

 Eucometis cassini, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1804, p. 351, t. SO (Panama), 



1879, p. 503 (Antioquia) ; iid. Nornencl. p. 23 ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, 



p. 1.39 (Veragua); Sale, et Godm. Biol. Cenfr.-A7n., Aves, i.Tp.S07. 

 Tachyphonus, sp., Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 142 (Rio Tru- 



ando). 



Above dark blackish grey, wings and tail rather darker ; head 

 black, with a large triangular patch of yellowish olive on the nape 

 and vertex : below yellowish olive-brown, crissum tinged with ful- 

 vous : throat and under wing-coverts cinereous ; bill plumbeous, 

 lower mandible whitish ; feet brown : whole length 6*7 inches, 

 wing 3-4, tail 3*1. Female similar. 



