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Adults {sexes alike). — Head and neck plain gray, darker on pileum 

 (dull slate-gray, slightly tinged with olive), paler (smoke gray) on chin 

 and throat; upper parts (except of head and neck) plain yellowish olive- 

 green (as in E. cristata) ; under parts, posterior to throat, deep saffron 

 yellow (as in E. cristata), deeper on chest, lighter and purer yellow on 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, the sides and flanks slightly tinged 

 with olive; bill black; legs and feet pale buffy brownish (in dried 

 skins). 



Ackilt «(ffZ^.— Length (skins), 151.1-160 (166); wing, 87.6-92.5 

 (89.9); tail, 71.2-77.7 (75.9); exposed culmen, 12.4-13.2 (12.7); 

 depth of bill at base, 6.6-7.4 (6.9); tarsus, 21.8; middle toe, 14.7- 

 15.2 (15).' 



Admit female. — Length (skins), 153.7 (one specimen); wing, 83.1- 

 84.6 (83.8); tail, 71.6-73.4 (72.4); exposed culmen, 13.7-14.2 (14); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 6.9; tarsus, 21.8-22.1; middle 

 toe, 15.7.^ 



Costa Rica (Trojas de Puntarenas; Nicoya; Tempate; Volcan de 

 Miravalles) and Nicaragua (Sucuya; Virgin Bay; Hato Viejo). 



Chlorospingus spodocepJiala Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxix, 1854, 922 (Nica- 

 ragua; coll. Delattre) ; Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 22. 



Chlorospingua gpodocepJmlus Solater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 91 (monogr.; 

 Nicaragua) ; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 29. 



Eucometis spodocephala Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 84 (Nicaragua); Cat. BirdB 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 219, part (Virgin Bay,' Lake Nicaragua; Nicoya, CoSta 

 Rica). — Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 316 (Virgin Bay, Lake Nicaragua). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 100 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Joum. fiir Om., 

 1869, 299 (Costa Rica).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1883, 443 (Costa 

 Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 307, pi. 20, 

 fig. 2, part (Virgin Bay and Hato Viejo, Nicaragua; Tempate, Costa Rica). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 382 (Sucuyd, Nicaragua; habits).— 

 Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 1 10 (Trojas de Puntarenas, 

 Costa Rica). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 435 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa 

 Rica; habits). 



[Euconietvi] spodocephala Sclatkr and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 23, part. 



EUCOMETIS SPODOCEPHALA PALLIDA Berlepsch. 

 YUCATAN ORAY-HEASED TANAGER, 



Similar to E. s. spodocephala, but lighter colored; gra}' of chin and 

 throat decidedly paler; olive-green of upper parts clearer, less 

 "golden;" yellow of under parts lighter and clearer, nearer lemon 

 yellow than saffron yellow; length (skins), 153.7-162.6 (158); wing, 

 81.8-83.3(82.6); tail, 71.1-73.4 (72.1); exposed culmen, 12.7-13; depth 



' Two specimens, from Sucuya, Nicaragua. 



