490 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Fourteen specimens : Bonda, Las Nubfes, Cincinnati, Don Diego, Di- 

 buUa, Pueblo Viejo, and Chirua. 



The extreme dates represented are November ii and March 26. 

 There is a specimen in the collection of the American Museum of 

 Natural History (not recorded by Dr. Allen) dated October ig, 1899. 

 Most of the series were taken in January and March, and appear to 

 be in fresh, or at least unworn, plumage. There is one female (No. 

 44,716, Dibulla, February 23) which is much worn, and is beginning 

 the moult, and a young male (45,008, Pueblo Viejo, March 17) which 

 is assuming the red feathers of the first nuptial dress. 



The Summer Tanager is a common winter visitor from sea-level 

 up to 5,000 feet, and is especially in evidence about the coffee-planta- 

 tions. 



470. Sporathraupis cyanocephala margaritse Chapman. 



Tanagra cyanocephala auricrissa (not Dubusia auricrissa Sclater) Allen, Bull. 



Atn. Mus. Nat. Hisl., XIII, 1900, 168 (Valparaiso and El Libano). 

 Sporathraupis cyanocephala margaritcB Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



XXXI, 1912, 165 (Valparaiso; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. 



Hist.; crit.). — Hellmayk and von Seilern, Verb. Orn. Ges. Bay em, XI, 



'9i3> 255 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Apolinar Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. 



Inst. La Salle, II, 1914, 245 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Eight specimens : El Libano, Las Vegas, San Miguel, and Heights 

 of Chirua. 



The two specimens of Sporathraupis sent in by Mr. Smith were re- 

 ferred by Dr. Allen to 5*. cyanocephala auricrissa, but later on the 

 receipt of an authentic series of the latter led Dr. CThapman to de- 

 scribe the Santa Martan bird as a new subspecies, which he named in 

 honor of Mrs. Smith. Not only is the bird a little smaller than auri- 

 crissa, but the blue of the head is more or less spread over the throat 

 and breast, the upper parts are decidedly tinged with brownish (the 

 exact color being midway between orange-citrine and medal-bronze),, 

 and (what is not mentioned in the original description) the crissum 

 is much duller (between aniline-yellow and sulphine-yellow, instead 

 of light cadmium or empire-yellow). Males agree among themselves, 

 and differ from females in having more blue on the throat. 



In the San Lorenzo district this bird was taken only in the very 

 humid forest at Las Vegas, at an altitude of about 6,000 feet, and only 

 a few were seen. Later it was taken in the Sierra Nevada, at (3hirua 



