On a tiew Carpodectes from Costa Rica. 27 



Sturnella magna, var. meridionalis, Baird, Brew.^, et Ridgw. 

 B. N. A. ii. p. 172; Coues, B. K W. p. 191. 

 Similis St. ludoviciance et crassitie sequali^ sed torque pecto- 

 ral! angusto. 



Hab. Llanos of Venezuela, Guiana, and Amazonia : Sierra 

 Nevada of St. Marta {Simons) ; Caripe, Venezuela [Goering); 

 Roraima Mountains {Whitely) ; Rio Brancho {Natterer). 



Mus. P. L. S. et S.-G. 



II. — On a new Carpodectes /rom South-western Costa Rica. 

 By Robert Ridgway. 



(Plate II.) 



The subject of the following description and accompanying 

 Plate was received recently at the U.S. National Museum 

 along with a small but very interesting collection of birds 

 sent by Sr. Don Jose C. Zeledon, of San Jose, already known 

 to science as an accomplished ornithologist and the author 

 of a recent catalogue of the birds of Costa Rica"^. 



Carpodectes antoni^. (Plate II.) 



Carpodectes antonice, Zeledon, MS. 



Adidt S (No. 91832, Pirris, May 1883; Juan Zeledon 

 collector). Similar to C. nitidus, but rather smaller, the bill 

 mostly bright yellow, the wings wholly pure white, and 

 crown much paler pearl-blue. Plumage pure white, except 

 the forehead and crown (which are pale pearl-blue or glau- 

 cous), and back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail 

 (which are of a more delicate shade of the same) . Bill clear 

 lemon-yellow (''^ wax- yellow " in fresh specimens), with a dis- 

 tinctly marked black stripe along the culmen ; " iris dark ; 

 feet black.^' Wings 5-40 inches, tail 2"60, culmen -70, tarsus 

 •90, middle toe '80. 



This lovely species much resembles C. nitidus, except as 



* 'Catalogo de las Aves de Costa-Rica/ por Jos(5 0. Zeledon. San 

 Jos6, Costa Rica. Junio 1882. Imprenta Nacional. 8vo, pp. 39. (701 

 species.) 



