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EUCOMETIS CRISTATA (Du Bus). 

 GRAY-CRESTED TANAGER. 



AdidU {sexes alihe). — Head and neck gray, paler, and usuaUy 

 streaked with whitish (sometimes inclining to grayish white) on malar 

 region, chin, and throat; crest slightly tinged with olive-yellowish; 

 lores and eyelids dusky gray; rest of u^jper parts, including lower 

 hindneck, plain yellowish olive-green; under parts of body saffron 

 yellow, becoming gradually paler posteriorly, the under tail-coverts 

 more chrome yellow; bill black or brownish black; legs and feet pale 

 buffy brownish (in dried skins). 



Adtilt ?/;a^A— Length (skins), 163.8-181.6 (169.4); wing, 86.9-94.7 

 (90.4); tail, 75.1^80.5 (78.2); exposed culmen, i;-i.7-15.7 (14.7); depth 

 of bill at base, 6.9-7.9 (7.4); tarsus, 21.6-22.9 (22.6); middle toe, 

 14.7-16.8 (15.5).^ 



Adult female.— U&ngtV (skins), 172.2-172.7 (172.5); wing, 8-8.1-91.9 

 (89.7); tail, 74.2-S4.3 (78.5); exposed culmen, 14.7-16 (16.2); depth of 

 bill at base, 6.9-7.4 (7.1); tarsus, 21.3-21.6 (21.6); middle toe, 14.7-16 

 (15.2).'' 



Veragua (Chitra) to central Colombia. 



Pipilopsis eristaia Dv Bus, Bull. A<'. Roy. Brux., xxxii, 1855, 154. 



Eueometis cristata Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 118, part (monogr. ; 

 Santa Marta and Cartagena, Colombia); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 42; Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 84 (Santa Marta and Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mua., xi, 1886, 218, part (Panama and Paraiso Station, Panama R. R. ; Ari- 

 hueca, Santa Marta, Minca, and Bogota, Colombia). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1860, 141 (Rio Truando, n. Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., vii, 1861, 298 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 350 (Lion Hill).— Salvin and Gomian, Ibis, 1880, 121 

 (Santa Marta); Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 306, part (Colombian refer- 

 ences and localities). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 142 (Santa 

 Marta).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 168 (Bonda, etc., prov. 

 Santa Marta). 



[Eucometis] o)-jstato Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 23. 



Trichothrawpis penicillata (not Tanrigra penicilUifa Spix) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lend., 1855, 156 (Bogota). 



EUCOMETIS SPODOCEPHALA SPODOCEPHALA (Bonaparte). 

 GRAY-HEADED TANAGER. 



Similar to K cristata, but gray of head and neck much darker; crest 

 less developed, with feathers distinctly outlined instead of blended; 

 tail shorter; bill much smaller. 



^ Six specimens. '' Three specimens. 



