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ochraceous-olive, passing into lighter and more grayish oli^o on abdo- 

 men and into deep olive-brown on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts; 

 bill and feet as in adult male, the former sometimes more brownish; 

 length (skins), 175.3-190.5 (184.7); wing, 86.6-95.3 (91.7); tail, 78.7- 

 86.4 (83.1); exposed culmen, 16.3-18.3 (17.5); depth of bill at base, 

 8.4-10.2 (9.1); tarsus, 24.9-26.9 (25.9); middle toe, 15.7-17.5 (16.5). ^ 



Southern Nicaragua (Grey town; Los Sabalos) to northern Colombia 

 (Santa Marta). 



Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., ix, Mar., 1861, 86 (Costa 

 Rica; coll. Berlin Mus.). — Frantzifs, .Tourn. fiir Orn., 1869, 299 (Angostura 

 and Sarapiqui, Costa Rica). 



Ph(enicothraupis fuscicauda Laaveence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1863, 469 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama R. R.); viii, 1865, 179 (Greytown, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 99 

 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 350 (Lion Hill; crit.).— Boucakd, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, 55 

 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1883,802 (Bebedero, Gulf of Nicoya, and San Carlos, w. Costa Rica, etc.).— 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, vi, 400 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua).— Ridg- 

 WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 414 (Pacuare, Costa Rica).— Sclatee, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 199, part (Nicoya, Costa Rica; Panama and 

 Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ; Santa Marta, Colombia). 



[Phcmicolhraupii'] fuscicauda Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22. 



Phsenicothraupis fuscicauda Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 1.10 

 (Panama).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, xvi, 1893, 490 (Rio Frio, Costa 

 Rica). 



Pliomicothraupis rubicoides (not Saltator rubicoides Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 297 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. 

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



Phmnicolhraupis erylhrolxma Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 83 (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater; ex Bonaparte, manuscript). 



Phcenicothraupis fuscicauda erythroliema Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 

 Sept. 20, 1900, 30 (Loma del Leon, Panama R. R.; crit.). 



' Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average as follows: 



Some specimens from the Isthmus of Panama are paler than those from Costa 

 Rica and Nicaragua, the adult males slightly more reddish above and the females 

 more olive (less brown) ; but the difference is so slight and so inconstant (judging by 

 the small series examined) that it does not seem justifiable to recognize a southern 

 form. 



