14:6 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



red or reddish flesh color instead of light vermilion or scarlet; adult 

 female with back, etc., more olive, the abdomen very pale buffy. 



Adult male.^L,ength (skins), 167.8-185 (178.2); wing, 88-97(90.8); 

 tail, 76-83 (78.5); exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 22-34(23.5); middle toe, 

 14-16(14.7.)' 



Adult female.- — Length (skin), 166; wing, 82; tail, 69.5; exposed 

 culmen, 16; tarsus, 23; middle toe, 15.^ 



Peninsula of Yucatan (Puerto Morelos) including Campeche 

 (Apazote). 



I'hn'idcoiliranpix rubicoides (not Saltnior rnhicoides Lafresnaye) Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 279 (Chichen Itza, Yucatan). 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS RUBICA VINACEA (Lawrence). 

 VINACEO0S-THROATEI) ANT TANAGEK. 



Similar to P. r. ntbicoides but adult male with under parts duller 

 reddish, especially on throat, and adult female moi'e greenish olive 

 above, more yellowish olive below. 



Adult maJe. — Above exactly as in P. r. rnhicoides but scarlet crest 

 encroaching more on the forehead, where extending almost to base of 

 culmen; beneath as in ]*. r. ruhicoides, but throat duller red, obsoletely 

 streaked with still duller brownish red; length (skins), 170-188 

 (179.7); wing, 91.9-97 (94.2); tail, 81.5-83 (82.5); exposed culmen, 

 15-16(16.7); depth of bill at base, 9.5-10 (9.8); tarsus, 24.4^-24.9(24.5); 

 middle toe, 16-16.5 (16.1).' 



Adult female. — Above light ochraceous-olive, more greenish than 

 in P. r. rubicoides; sides of pileum darker than back, the median por- 

 tion dull ochraceous or ochre-yellowish; under parts light ochraceous- 

 olive on chest, similar but duller on sides and flanks, the throat and 

 abdomen light wax yellowish (the former indistinctly streaked with 

 pale grayish olive); length (skins), 170-175 (173); wing, 82-90 (86.5); 

 tail, 75.5-79.5 (76.9); exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.7); depth of bill at 

 base, 8.5-10 (9.4); tarsus, 23-24.5 (23.6); middle toe, 15.' 



Costa Rica to Isthmus of Panama. 



Phcenicothraupis ruhicoides (not Saltator rubicoides Lafresnaye) Cassin, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1865, 171 (Grecia, Costa Rica). 



Phxnicothraupus vinacea Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xix, 1867, 94 

 (Panama; coll. G. N, Lawrence); Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868,99 (Guaitilaiid 

 Grecia, Costa Pica; descr. female). 



Phoenicothraupus vinacea Frantzins, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1869, 299 (Costa Rica). 



Phoenicothraupis vinacea Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 187 (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Calovevora, Veragua).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1883, 301.— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 197.— Under- 

 wood, Ibis, 1896, 435 (Volcan de Mlravalles, Costa Rica). 



[Phcenicothraupit'] vinacea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22. 



' Four specimens. 2 Q^g specimen. 



