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Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 130 (monogr.); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 54; 



Oat. Am. Birds, 1862, 79 (Guatemala) .— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 193. 

 [Ramphoccelus] uropygialis SchATER a.nd Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21. 

 Rhamphoccdm uropygialis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 



284, pi. 18, fig. 2.— SoLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 173 (Guatemala). 



Genus PHLOGOTHRAUPIS Selater and Salvin. 



Phlogothraupis^ Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21, 155. (Type, Tana- 

 gra {Tachyphonus) sanguinolentus IjeaBon.) 



Similar to Jiamphocelus, but bill different and sexes alike in color. 



Culmen broad, rounded, not I'idged; maxilla deeper than mandible, 

 its tip slightly uncinate but not notched; mandibular rami much 

 shorter than gonys, truncate posteriorly. Wing rather long (about 

 four and one-third times as long as tarsus), but rounded, as .in 

 Hamphocekis. Tail about six-sevenths as long as wing, rounded, the 

 rectrices rather broader and more pointed at tips than in Ra/m/phocdus. 



Color atwn. — Black, with broad ring around neck (widening on chest) 

 and extending over top of head to center of forehead), and tail-coverts 

 blood-red; bill pale blue or bluish white. 



Range. — Southern Mexico to Costa Rica. (Monotypic.) 



PHLOGOTHRAUPIS SANGUINOLENTA (Lesson). 

 CRIUSON-COLLAIIEI) TANAGEB. 



Admits (sexes alike}. — General color deep black, with a faint bluish 

 gloss, most apparent on back, scapulars, and margins of wing-coverts; 

 occiput, greater part of crown, hindneck, sides of neck, entire chest, 

 lower rump, and upper and under tail-coverts, blood red; under wing- 

 coverts vermilion red; bill pale grayish blue in life, whitish basally, 

 dark grayish terminally, in dried skins; iris red;^ legs and feet grayish 

 dusky (in dried skins). 



Young {first plumage). — Sooty black, without gloss; blood-red areas 

 of the adult replaced by more broken areas of brownish red or dull 

 vermilion, the chest with only scattered feathers with broad red tips; 

 under wing-coverts pale brownish red; bill pale horn-color (in dried 

 skins). 



Admit maZe.— Length (skins), 160-186.7 (174.8); wing, 85.9-9-4.2 

 (88.6); tail, 72.1-82 (79); exposed culmen, 15.2-17 (15.5); depth of 

 bill at base, 8.4^9.7 (9.1); tarsus, 20.6-22.9 (21.8); middle toe, 15.3- 

 17.3 (16.3).^ 



Adult female.— L&ngth. (skins), 166.4^193 (178.8); wing, 83.1-88.9 

 (87.4); tail, 72.4^81.3 (79); exposed culmen, 15-16.7 (16.5); depth of 



' " $Xoydi,Jlamma et ipaavitii, nom. propr." 

 ^ C. 0. Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 400. 

 * Eleven specimens. 



