BIRDS Of IfORTa AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 137 



elongated narrow feathers, forming a bushy crest when erected; bill 

 black, the rami and a little beyond dull whitish or pale grayish (in 

 dried skins) ; legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins) ; length 

 (skins), 142.2-149.9 (145.8); wing, 70.9-75.9 (74.2); tail, 63-65.8 (64.5); 

 exposed culmen, 12.4-13.5 (13); depth of bill at base, 6.6-6.9 (6.6); 

 tarsub, 19.8-20.6 (20.3); middle toe, 11.9-13 (12.4).' 



Adult female. — Head, neck, and chest light bistre brown, darker or 

 deeper on pileum and hindneck; back, scapulars, and lesser wing- 

 coverts plain dark bistre brown or sepia, passing into blackish brown 

 or sooty on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail brownish 

 black or sooty with paler (bistre brown or olive) edgings; under parts 

 shading gradually from light bistre (varying to almost raw umber) 

 anteriorly to sooty brown on under tail-coverts; maxilla blackish, man- 

 dible blackish or blackish brown, becoming indistinctly paler basally; 

 legs and feet dusky; length (skins), 134.6-142.2 (138.4); wing, 65-69.6 

 (66.8); tail, 59.4-60.7 (59.9); exposed culmen, 12.2-13.2 (12.7); depth 

 of bill at base, 5.8-6.4 (6.1); tarsus, 18.3-19.1 (18.5); middle toe, 11.9- 

 12.4 (12.2).' 



Costa Rica (Talamanca, Pacuare, San Mateo, etc.) and southward to 

 western Ecuador (Pallatanga, Pasto, etc.). 



Tnchyphonus delatrii Lafebsnaye, Rev. Zool., x, Mar., 1847, 72 (San Buenaven- 

 tura, Colombia). — Solatbe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 116 (monogr. ; San 

 Buenaventura and Gorgona, n. w. coast Colombia); (?) 1859, 139 (Pallatanga, 

 w. Ecuador); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 40; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 86 

 (Bogota; Pallatanga?) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 215 (Santa ¥6 and 

 Santiago, Veragua; Panama; Gorgona I., Remedios, and Bogota, Colombia; 

 Pallatanga (?) and Pasto, w. Ecuador). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1860, 142 (Rio Truando, Colombia); 1865, 171 (Pacuare, Costa Rica).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 331 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ). — 

 ScLATEE and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 351 (Lion Hill); 1879, 

 503 (Antioquia, Colombia) ; Exotic Orn., pt. v, 1868, 67, pi. 34, fig. of male, 

 not fig. of female.— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 140 (Santa Fe and 

 Santiago, Veragua). — Feantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 299 (Costa Rica). — 

 Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 55 (San Mateo, Costa Rica; habits). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 312. — Zkledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac., Costa Rica, i, 1887, 110 (Pacuare, Costa Rica). 



Tachyphanus delatrei Lawrence, Ann. Lye, N. Y., ix, 1868, 100 (Payua, Costa 

 Rica) . 



[Tachyphorms] deloMrii Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



T[achyphonus'] delatrii Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., 17.— Bonapaete, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 237. 



Chlorospingus brunneus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat, Hist. N. Y., x, March, 1874, 

 395 (" Volcan de IraziS," i. e., Talamanca,' Costa Ri(a; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 female; see Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 308). 



' Six specimens. 



^ Three specimens. 



'According to Jos6 C. Zeledon, collector of the type specimen. 



