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RAMPHOCELUS DIMIDIATUS LIMATUS (Bangs). 

 SAN MIGUEL TANAGER, 



Similar to B. d. isthmious, but smaller; adult male with head, neck, 

 and back lighter crimson-maroon, lesser and middle wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with crimson-maroon, greater coverts and tertials 

 edged with a duller shade of the same, dusky of abdomen more 

 restricted, sometimes obsolete; adult female similar in coloration to 

 R. d. isthmicus, but averaging rather paler and decidedly smaller, 

 especially the tail. 



AdAilt male.— Length, (skins), 148.6-152.4: (151.1); wing, 75.7-78.7 

 (77); tail, 64^69.3 (67.1); exposed oulmen, 13.2-11.7 (13.7); greatest 

 width of mandibular rami, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 19.1-20.8(20.1); mid- 

 dle toe, 13-14 (13.2).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 146.1-147.3 (146.6); wing, 73.2-75.7 

 (74.4); tail, 64.8-68.6 (66.5); exposed culmen, llr-14.7 (14.2); greatest 

 width of mandibular rami, 4.1-4.6 (4.3); tarsus, 19.8-20.6 (20.1); mid- 

 dle toe, 12.4-13.2 (12.7).' 



Island of San Miguel, Bay of Panama. 



Bhamphocelus limatus Bangs, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1901, 31 (San Miguel I., Bay of 

 Panama; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). 



RAMPHOCELUS UROPYGIALIS Bonaparte. 

 MAROON-HEADED TANAGER. 



Adn.iltmale. — "Above brownish black; lower part of rump and upper 

 tail-coverts bright crimson; head and neck all round dark crimson; 

 abdomen bright crimson, with a central patch on the belly and slight 

 flammulations on the sides black; thighs black; bill black; lower man- 

 dible except the tip bluish white; feet brown; whole length,- 172.7; 

 wing, 83.8; tail, 78.7." 



'''' Habitat. — Guatemala. 



"This species is most like R. luciani, but at once recognizable by 

 the blood-red uropygium and upper tail-coverts, the rest of the back 

 being dark brownish black. The type specimen is at present unique." 

 (Sclater.) 



(?) Ramphocelus affinis Lesson, Rev. Zool., iii, 1840, 1 (Mexico). 



(?) R[amphocelus] affirm Lesson, Rev. Zool., iii, 1840, 133 (Colombia; fuller 



description) . 

 Ramphocelus uropygialis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., iii, Apr., 1851, 178 



(Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater); Note sur les Tang., 1851, 29. — Sclater, 



' Seven specimens. 



' Two specimens. 



'Measurements converted from inches and tenths. 



