134 BULLETlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Peru; Quixos, e. Ecuador; Bogotd, and Santa Marta, Colombia; Tobago; 

 Trinidad) ; 1860, 274 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuador), 292 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador) ; 

 Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 38; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 85 (Trinidad; Bolivia; 

 Colombia; Esmeraldas, Ecuador); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., part, xi, 1886, 208 

 (Panama and Chepo, Isthmus Panama; Santa Marta, Remedios, and Bogota, 

 Colombia; Santa Rita and Esmeraldas, Ecuador; Bolivia; Engenho do Gama, 

 Brazil; Trinidad; Bartica Grove, British Guiana). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1860, 141 (Rio Truando, n. Colombia). — La whence, Ann! Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1861, 297 (Panama R. R.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, .351 (Panama R. R.); 1868, 167 (Venezuela); 1879, 503 (Antioquia, 

 Colombia), 601 (Bolivia).— Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 582 

 (Trinidad).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 188 (Veragua); Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 194 (Bolivia?; Trinidad); Ibis, 1885, 211 (British Gui- 

 ana). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 332 (w. Ecuador). — Beb- 

 LEPSCH and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 547 (Chimbo, 

 w. Ecuador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 310, part 

 (Chepo, Isthmus Panama; South American localities and references). — Bek- 

 LEPSCH and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 574 (w. Ecuador). — ■ 

 Beklepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 5i92 ( Biicaramanga, Colombia); 1889, 297 

 (Sarayacu and Ucayali, e. Peru; crit. ). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 ii, 1889, 82 (Reyes, Bolivia).— Rikeb and Chapman-, Auk, vii, 1890, 267 

 (Santarem, lower Amazon). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 31 

 (Trinidad). — Salvadoki and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 

 357, 1899, 18 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador). 



\_Tachypho7ius] luctuosus Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23, part. 



Pyranga luctuosa D'Orbigsy, Voy. Ami^r. Merid., Ois., 1839, 263, pi. 20, figs. 1 

 (male), 2 (female). 



[Lanio] (freM?>os;ris Bonapakte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 240. 



Tachyphonus alhi upend inrix Leotaijd, Ois., Trinidad, 1866, 300. 



TACHYPHONUS AXILLARIS Lawrence. 

 COSTA RICAN WHITE-SHOULDERED TANAGER. 



Similar to T. nitidissimits, but adult male with colored crown-patch 

 much smaller, concealed, and yellow instead of orange-rufous; adult 

 female apparently brighter yellow below. 



Adult male. — Uniform deep black, with lesser, middle, and under 

 wing-coverts and axillars white; center of crown usually with a small, 

 mostly concealed, spot of yellow; bill black, the mandible with a pale 

 bluish gray or whitish space on each side covering the rami and pro- 

 jecting forward in an acute angle to about midway between gonydeal 

 angle and tip of mandible; iris brown; legs and feet dusky or dark 

 brownish in dried skins (bluish in life?); length (skins), 120.7-134.6 

 (129); wing, 63.2-65.8 (64.8); tail, 56.9-58.7 (57.7); exposed culmen, 

 12.4-12.7; depthof bill at base, 5.8-6.1; tarsus, 17-18.3(17.5); middle 

 toe, 10.7-11.4 (10.9).' 



Admit female. — Above yellowish olive-green, slightly darker and 

 duller on head, where sometimes slightly grayish on forehead and super- 

 ciliary region; beneath lemon yellow medially shading into yellowish 



' Three specimens. 



