136 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TACHYPHONUS NITIDI^SIMUS Salvin. 

 VERAGUAN WHITE-SHOULDERED TANAGER. 



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

 larger, conspicuous^ exposed, and orange-rufous instead of yellow; 

 adult female apparently duller yellow below. 



Admit male. — General color uniform deep black; pileum with a 

 median, partly concealed, patch or stripe of orange-ochraceous; lesser 

 and middle wing-coverts white, excepting those bordering the carpal 

 region; axillars and under wing-covert region white, the latter with 

 a broad black exterior border; bill black, with rami whitish (extend- 

 ing more than halfway to tip of mandible, the anterior extremity 

 pointed); tarsi light horn color (in dried skins), toes darker; length 

 (skins), 124.5-134.6 (128.8); wing, 66-68.8 (67.6); tail, 58.4-60.2 (59.2);. 

 exposed culmen, 13-14.5 (13.7); depth of bill at base, 6.6-6.9; tarsus, 

 17.8-19.3 (18.5); middle toe, 10.7.' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult female of T. Jitctuosus, but 

 without gray on sides of head, etc., and throat more buffy; above plain 

 yellowish olive-green, including pileum and hindneck; sides of head 

 lighter and duller olive-greenish, the feathers of auricular region with 

 dull whitish or pale yellowish shaft-streaks; lores and malar region 

 paler than auricular region and inclining to dull brownish buffj-; chin 

 and throat pale buffy yellowish, the feathers whitish beneath surface; 

 chest, sides, and flanks dull yellowish olive or olive-yellowish, passing 

 into yellow on breast and abdomen; under tail-coverts paler and duller 

 yellow; under wing-coverts dull white, slightly" tinged with yellow; bill 

 as in adult male but more brownish; legs and feet pale brownish (in 

 dried skin); length (skin), 119.4; wing, 63.5; tail, 59.2; exposed cul- 

 men, 14.5; depth of bill at base, 7.1; tarsus, 18; middle, 10.4.^ 

 Veragua, Chiriqui, and southwestern Costa Rica (Pirris). 

 Tachyphonus nitidissimus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 188 (Bugabd, 

 Chiriqui; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibis, 1874, 308, in text. — Eidgway, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. M-us., vi, 1884, 412 (Pirris, s. w. Costa Rica; crit.).— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 312, part, pi. 21, figs. 2, 3 

 (Bugaba and Vivalil, Chiriqui).— Sclatee, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 214, part (Bugaba, Chiriqui). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 110, part (Pozo Azul de Pirris, Costa Rica). 

 [Tachyphoniui] mtidissimus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



TACHYPHONUS DELATRII Lafresnaye. 

 TAWNY-CRESTED TANAGER. 



Adult male. — Uniform sooty black, including under wing-coverts; 

 median portion of crown and occiput with a patch of bright tawny or 

 orange-tawny (more yellowish basally), composed of stiffened and 



'Three specimens; two from Chiriqui, one from Pirris, Costa Rica. 

 ^One specimen, from Bugaba, Chiriqui; this, from which the description is taken, 

 is in rather worn plumage. 



