152 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS SALVINI INSULARIS (Salvin). 

 ISLAND ANT TANAOER. 



Similar to P. s. peni-nsularis, but still paler and grayer. 

 Adult male. — Above grayish red, wings and tail more dusky, slightly ■ 

 edged with olivaceous; vertical crest bright red, without black margin; 

 beneath pale red, the throat clearer, the breast and flanks tinged with 

 gray; bill horn color; feet hazel. Total length, 198.1; wing, 101.6; 

 tail, 91.4; bill to rictus, 21.6; tarsus 25.4. (Free translation of 

 original description.) 



Adult female. — Above cinnamon; throat and median portion of 

 abdomen fawn color. (Translation of original description.) 



According to Salvin this form is near P. sah)in/\ but is much paler 

 and grayer above, and beneath very much paler. 



Meco Island and Mugeres Island, off coast of Yucatan. 

 Phoenicothraupii hisularis Salvin, Ibis, 5th ser., vi, Apr., 1888, 259 (Meco and 



Mugeres islands, Yucatan; coll. Salvin and Godman). 

 Phcenicothraupig salmni insularis Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 

 1901, 150, in text. 



PHCENICOTHRAUPIS FUSCICAUDA Cabanis. 

 DUSKY-TAILED ANT TANAGER. 



Adult male. — Upper parts dark chocolate brown, varying to seal 

 brown; remiges duskj% the secondaries edged with dull chocolate 

 brown, the primaries with brownish gray; rectrices duskj' edged with 

 dark purplish brown or chocolate; median portion of pileum bright 

 vermilion or scarlet, the feathers with chocolate-brown tips; sides of 

 head dark chocolate brown posteriorly, becoming dusky on malar, 

 suborbital, and loral regions, the chin also dusky, at least laterally; 

 throat vermilion red or scarlet, forming a more or less triangular 

 patch; rest of under parts changing from dull or dusky grayish red 

 on chest to dark reddish gray on flanks, the under tail-coverts dull 

 grayish red, like chest; bill black, the basal portion of mandible some- 

 times more grayish; legs and feet dark horn-brownish; length (skins), 

 180.3-205.7 (191.5); wing, 94.7-103.9 (101.3); tail, 84.8-97.5 (91.4); 

 exposed culmen, 16-18.3 (17.5); depth of bill at base, 8.1-9.7 (9.1); 

 tarsus, 25.9-27.2 (26.2); middle toe, 16-17.8 (17.3).' 



Adult female. — Above plain deep bistre brown, more olivaceous on 

 pileum (where sometimes very faintly tinged with yellowish in central 

 or median portion), and on upper tail-coverts, the wings and tail more 

 grayish brown or sepia; sides of head like pileum, becoming lighter 

 or more grayish on malar region; chin and sides of upper throat dull 

 grayish; throat (except sides of upper portion) ochre-yellow or gall- 

 stone yellow (varying to pale naples yellow or maize yellow), some- 

 times very faintly streaked with pale grayish; chest yellowish olive or 



' Twelve specimens. 



