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Benito; El Salto), and southward through Guatemala to northern 

 Honduras. 



Phcenicothraupis rubicus (not Saltaior rubicus Vieillot) Sumichbast, Mem. Boat. 

 Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (tierra caliente, Vera Cruz). 



Phcenicothraupin fuscicanda (not of Cabanis) Laivrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 4, 1876, 19 (Cniichicovi, Oaxaca). 



(?) Phoenicothrau]>i!< fuscicaudii (not of Lawrence) Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. 

 Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Naranjo, Guatemala). 



Phcmicothrmcpis salvini Berlepsch, Ibis, 5th ser., i, Oct., 1883, 487, pi. 13 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Count von Berlepsch).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 303, part (Vera Cruz; Guichicovi, Oaxaca; Corosal and 

 Belize, British Honduras; Chisec, Guatemala).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 200, part (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Belize and Corosal, British 

 Honduras; Chisec% Guatemala). 



Phmiicothraupis salriiii salvini Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 

 1901, 150, in text. 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS SALVINI LITTORALIS (Nelson). 

 TABASCO ANT TANAGER. 



Similar to P. s. salvini, but adult male much more purplish or rosy 

 red and adult female and immature male much more reddish, with 

 throat deep ochraceous-butf or dull orange to ochraceous-rufous tinged 

 with red instead of yellow, and under parts of body tawny -ochraceous 

 to cinnamon-rufous, tinged with red medially. 



Adult male. — Above plain deep brick red; wings grayish brown 

 (deep hair brown), v/ith brick red edgings, this color occupjang whole 

 outer web of tertials; primaries edged for basal half with pale brick 

 red, for terminal portion with pale grayish brown; median portion of 

 crown and occiput poppy red, the feathers with tips extensively dark 

 reddish brown; lores, suborbital region, anterior portion of malar 

 region, chin, and sides of upper throat dusky brownish gray or sooty; 

 throat poppy red; rest of under parts changing from dark or dull 

 poppy red on chest to paler, more vinaceous,,red on abdomen and to 

 dark vinaceous on flanksjjqnder tail-coverts pale poppy red or deep 

 flesh-pink, tinged with grayish on median portion of each feather; bill 

 black, the mandible sometimes more brownish basally; legs light horn 

 brownish, the toes somewhat darker; length (skins), 205.7-213.1 

 (208.3); wing, 101.6-106.7 (104.4); tail, 90.-1^99.3 (95.5); exposed cul- 

 men, 17.8-19.8 (19.1); depth of bill at base, 10.2-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 

 25.4-28.2 (26.7); middle toe, 16-17.5 (16.8).' 



Adult female. — Above deep mars brown, the center of crown and 

 occiput more or less strongly tinged with brownish red; lores, subor- 

 bital region, anterior portion of malai' region, and chin dull grayish or 

 brownish gray; throat varying from orange-buff to deep salmon-color 

 or dull Saturn red; chest cinnamon-rufous or deep tawny, fading into 

 tawny-ochraceous or paler cinnamon-rufous on abdomen, the sides and 



^ Six specimens. 



