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Fam. COTINGIDvE. 



Subfam. LIPAUGIN^E. 



393. E,i|jaiig&i§ albogrisetis, sp. nov. 



Front and crown black; sides of the head plnmbeous black; hind 

 neck, back, and smaller wing-coverts of a rather dark ashy blnish grey, 

 on the middle of the back slightly tinged with yellow ; rump white ; 

 upper tail coverts like the back ; tail black, the outer edge of the lateral 

 feather and the tips of all the others narrowly margined with white ; 

 wings, and middle and greater wing coverts black, the secondaries nar- 

 rowly edged with white, the tertiaries and wing coverts broadly and 

 conspicuously margined with white, the primaries wholly black ; throat, 

 breast, and sides of a clear bluish ashy grey, lower part of breast, abdo- 

 men, and under tail coverts pure white ; under wing coverts and inner 

 margins of quill feathers white; bill brownish black, base of under man- 

 dible lighter brown ; tarsi and toes black. 



Third quill longest, fourth nearly as long, second a little shorter than 

 the fourth, first intermediate between the sixth and seventh. 



Length 1 in. ; wing 3f ; tail 3| ; bill § ; tarsi }£. 



It is with some hesitation that I have placed the above 

 described bird in Lipaugus, but its affinities seem nearer to this 

 genus than to any other. 



Fam. TANAGBID^E. 



Subfam. TANAGRINiE. 



391. Phcenicothraupis fuscicauda, Cab. Jour. f. Orn. 



1861, p. 86. 



This differs from P. rtibicoides (also found on the Isthmus), 

 in having a well defined scarlet patch on the throat, the general 

 color is of a deep vinous or purplish red, the wings and tail 

 more brown and the bill rather larger ; rtibicoides is more uni- 

 formly red, and the prevailing color is much lighter. 



I have a specimen from St. Martha, which is of a still browner 

 color than those from Panama, but this is attributable probably 

 to its being younger. Mr. Sclater in his Catalogue of American 



