10 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I45 



chrome ; greater wing coverts, primaries, and secondaries edged 

 heavily with lettuce green; inner webs of central pair of rectrices 

 cedar green ; outer webs of all rectrices edged with lettuce green ; 

 point of chin black; feathers of throat, foreneck, and upper margin 

 of chest dark green-blue gray, washed on throat and adjacent ramal 

 area with dark bluish glaucous, on foreneck with light grape green, 

 and on sides of neck with pinkish buff, with the darker basal color 

 showing through in varying amount with change in angle of the 

 light; center of breast and abdomen between light cadmium and 

 lemon chrome ; sides between light cadmium and aniline yellow ; 

 flanks and under tail coverts aniline yellow; tibia citrine; bend of 

 wing warbler green, stippled lightly with black ; under wing coverts 

 light yellowish olive externally, changing to white internally, edged 

 lightly with cream-buff. Bill black; tarsus and toes fuscous (from 

 dried skin). 



Measurements. — Males (8 specimens), wing 72.4-77.4 (73.6), 

 tail 45.8-49.8 (47.3), culmen from base 12.0-14.8 (12.9), tarsus 

 17.5-18.8 (18.3) mm. 



Females (9 specimens), w'mg 68.7-72.4 (71.1), tail 43.5-47.6 

 (45.6), culmen from base 12. 5-14.0 (13.2, average of 8), tarsus 

 17.8-18.8 (18.3) mm. 



Range. — Mountain areas of west central Panama from Cerro 

 Campana, western Provincia de Panama, to Code (El Valle, Rio 

 Guabal ) . 



The name of this form is taken from the Greek o/oeV^to?, living 

 on mountains. 



TANGARA ICTEROCEPHALA FRANTZII (Cabanis) 



CalHspi,':a (Chrysothraupis) rrantzii Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., vol. 9, pt. 2, 

 March 1861, p. 87. (Costa Rica.) 



Characters. — Similar to T. i. icterocephala, but with crown and 

 hindneck more yellow; partly concealed ring on base of hindneck 

 paler, more greenish blue ; foreneck and throat paler : definitely 

 brighter yellow above and below than oresbia. 



Measurements. — Males (14 specimens from Costa Rica), wing 

 72.3-78.6 (75.5), tail 44.7-49.8 (47.8), culmen from base 11. 5-12.8 

 (12.3), tarsus 1 7.2-18.8 (18.0) mm. 



Females (12 specimens from Costa Rica), wing 69.5-73.7 (71.7), 

 tail 43.0-46.3 (44.9), culmen from base 11. 5-1 2.6 (11. 9), tarsus 

 1 7.2-1 8.5 (17.9) mm. 



Range. — Mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, east to 

 eastern Veraguas (Chitra), 



