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Tanagra cana Swains. Three specimens, an adult male and two young 

 females, Boruca, May. 



Piranga testacea testacea Scl. & Salv. Two adult males, Boruca and 

 Paso Real, June and July. 



Ramphocelus costaricensis Cherrie. Two hundred and nine specimens, 

 adults and young of both sexes, Boruca, Paso Real and Pozo del Rio 

 Grande, April-August. 



Lanio melanopygius Salv. & Godm. Eight adults, both sexes, Boruca 

 and Pozo del Rio Grande, April and May. 



Tachyphonus nitidissimus Salv. Twenty-seven specimens, adults of 

 both sexes and young males, two in nestling plumage, Boruca, Paso Real, 

 Barranca and Pozo del Rio Grande, April-July. The color of the crown- 

 patch in the adult males varies much — from gamboge yellow to almost 

 ochraceous-rufus, sometimes being yellow in middle and ochraceous at 

 the end or sides. 



Eucometis spodocephala stictothorax (Bcrlepsch). Thirty-seven speci- 

 mens, adults and young, Boruca, Paso Real, Pozo del Rio Grande and 

 Lagato, April-August. 



This series clearly is referable to E. spodocephala stictothorax and not 

 to true E. spodocephala although some individuals approach the latter 

 form and perhaps indicate intergradation somewhere in this vicinity; 

 others — in fact most of the series — are extreme instances of the more 

 southern subspecies. Specimens from Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, I should 

 also refer to stictothorax, while examples from Volcan Miravalles are 

 extreme spodocephala. 



Young specimens in nestling plumage have the whole head and throat 

 olive-green like the back, and the chest streaked with this color, otherwise 

 they are similar to the adults. 



Phcenicothraupis rubica vinacea (Lawr.). Sixty-two specimens, adults 

 and young, Boruca and Lagato, April-June. 



Nestlings are much browner, less greenish than the adult female and lack 

 the yellow crown patch. 



Fringillid^e. 



Spiza americana (Gmel.). Five adults, both sexes, Pozo del Rio Grande, 

 April 3 to April 12. 



Emberizoides sphenura hypochondriacus (Hellmayr). l Seven adults, 

 both sexes, Boruca and Barranca, May and June. 



This strongly characterized subspecies, lately described by Hellmayr, 

 is of course a new bird to Costa Rica. It was very surprising after all the 



1 Emberizoides macrourus hypochondriacus Hellmayr, Bull. Br. Orn. Club, Vol. 

 XIX, Dec. 31, 1906, p. 28. Type locality, Frances, Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000 ft. 

 alt. 



Dr. Chas. W. Richmond has called my attention to the fact that Fringilla macrouro 

 Gmel. 1788, is preoccupied by Pallas in Vroeg's Catalogue 1764, and that therefore 

 the wide ranging South American species must be known by Vieillot's name Passerina 

 sphenura, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXV, p. 25, 1817, Type locality, Cayenne. 



