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getophARA aiirantiaca. 



Setopkaga aurantiaca, Daibo, n. a. 

 Hah. Costa Rio*. 



Upper parts, with head and neck, phimlieoun, wlthont any tinge of olire ; 

 wini^H and tail black, tlie quills edged Hiightly with plumbeous. Crown orange 

 brown, margined on the forehead and above tiie eyes with black. Fore part 

 of tlie neck blackish. Beneath yellowish-orange ; the crisBum and inside of 

 wing!* white : the tibia and edge of wing plunibeoL Rather less than the 

 teriuinnl half of outer tail feather, and a din>inishing amount on the second 

 auii tliird feathers, white, the white extending farther towards the base on the 

 outer webs of the outer feather ; the black extending forwards externally on 

 the edge of the second and third feathers. Iris black. 



TliH sexes do not appear to differ. Some specimens art, however, of a deeper 

 orange. A young bird (30,41)3), not fully fledged, is very similar, but lacks 

 the brown crown. The orange of the under parts is very deep and distinct. 



Length (No. 33,:80, 9), 6.00; wing, 2.45; tail, 2.67; gape of bill, .GO; 

 tarBus, .75. 



This species is very similar to S. verlicalis, of Bogota, but differs 

 in iiaving the under parts yellowish-oraiifje. rath(!r than clear jrani- 

 boge yellow. The throat is apparently darker. The black of the 

 forehead and sides of the vertex-spot 1 do not find in the speci- 

 men before me of verticalis, nor are they mentioned in the descrip- 

 tions. There is more white on the tail feathers of oerticalia, involving 

 raore than half of the inner web and two-thirds of the outer. Thero 

 is no trace in autantiaca of the ashy margins of the tail feathers 

 mentioned by D'Orbigny. 



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Setophaga torquata. 



Setophana torquata, Baibd, n. 8. 

 Hub. Costa Rica. 



Upper parts, continuous With ft narrow pectoral collar ashy plumb ons, 

 with a tinge of olive above; the collar more dusky. A narrow* frontal line, 

 entire sides of head, including lores and circum-ocular region, .ir.d under parts, 

 bright yellow. Crissum and inside of wings pale yellowish ; edge of wing darker 



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