150 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



flanks russet; under tail-coverts clear tawnj'-; maxilla blackish, mandi- 

 ble brownish or blackish, or the former basally, the latter terminally; 

 legs and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 179.8-197.1 (187.7); 

 wing, 89.4-98 (93.5); tail, 82-87.9 (84.6); exposed culmen, 15.7-18 

 (17.3); depth of bill at base, 9.4-10.4 (9.9); tarsus, 25.1-26.4 (25.7); 

 tarsus, 25.1-26.4 (25.7); middle toe, 15-16.5 (16).' 



TiJimature male. — Similar to the adult female, but usually(?) more 



reddish (throat dull saturn red to pale dull vermilion), under parts 



tinged with red, and median portion of crown and occiput dull reddish. 



Coast plain of eastern Mexico, from southern Tamaulipas (Alta 



Mira; Tampico) to Chiapas (El Salto) and Tabasco (Frontera). 



Fhwnicothraupis fuscicauda salmni Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, Aug. 



12, 1896, 631 (Alta, Mira, Tamaulipas). 

 Phcenicolhraupis littoralis Nelson, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1891, 48 (Frontera, Tabasco, 

 s. e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS SALVINI DISCOLOR Ridgway. 



NICARAGTTAN ANT TANAGER. 



Adult male. — Similar to /-*. s. salvini, but upper parts much duller 

 in color (chocolate instead of purplish brick red or liver brown); 

 throat paler vermilion or scarlet, and under parts of body paler and 

 much more tinged with' graj', the flanks decidedly grayish; length 

 (skins), 180.3-190.5 (185.9); wing, 92.5-99.1 (96.5); tail, 84.8-90.9 

 (87.1); exposed culmen, 17.3-19.1 (17.8); depth of bill at base, 8.1-9.7 

 (8.9); tarsus, 25.4-26.2 (25.7); middle toe, 15.2-17.3 (16.5).' 



Adult female. — Not always distinguishable from that of P. s. sal- 

 vini, but sometimes a little more olive in coloring, especialljr the tail; 

 length (skins), 170.2-195.6 (181.4); wing, 84.1-92.2 (88.9); tail, 76.2- 

 84.3 (81); exposed culmen, 16.. 3-17 (16.5); depth of bill at base, 8.4-9.1 

 (8.6); tarsus, 24.9-27.7 (25.7); middle toe, 15.7-16.5 (16).-' 



Young male {first jfl'wnage). — Pileum, hindneck, and under parts 

 brownish vinaceous-cinnamon, darker on the first, the last indistinctly 

 clouded on chest, breast, etc., with vandyke brown; back and other 

 upper parts warmer sepia brown, becoming clearer sepia on tail and 

 primaries, the latter with much paler edges; feathers of back with 

 paler shaft-streaks; bill horn brownish, paler at tip.* 



Southern Honduras (Rio Segovia) and Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; 

 Los Sabalos; Managua). 



(?) Phcenicothrawpis fuscicauda (not of Cabanis ?) Salvix, Ibis, 1872, 313, 316 

 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Sclatkr, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., xi, 1886, 199, 

 part (Chontales). 



' Six specimens. 

 ^ Five specimens. 

 ■' Four specimens. 



■•Probably not different from the same stage of P. .i. salvini, wliii^h, however, I 

 have not seen. 



