BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 165 



Laguiia, Naranjo, and Navarro, Costa Rica).— Salvix anrl Godm.w, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, :^1.5,— Berlei'kcii, Journ, fiir. Orn., ]884, 293 

 (Bucaramauga, Colombia; crit.)— Taczanowski, Orji. ilu Perou, ii, 1885, 

 513.— Zeledon, Anal. :\Ius. Nac. Costa Eica, i, 1887, 110 (La Palma de San 

 ,Tos6and Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Eica).— Salvadori, Boll. Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xii, 1897, G (San Lorenzo, Argentina). 



IChlorosping^m'] alhitemporaJix Sci.atrr and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 24, 

 part. 



dhllorospingus} ophlJialiiiinix (not Arremo7i ophlhahiiims Tin Bus) Cabanis, Mus. 

 Hein., i, 1851, 139, footnote (Colombia). 



[Pipilopm'] ophthilriilciix Boxapakte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 485, part (Colombia). 



CHLOROSPINGUS PILEATUS Salvin. 

 SOOTY-CAPPED CHLOKOSPINGTJS. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pilcum, hindneck, .side.s of neck, auricular 

 region, suborbital region, and lores dark sooty slate-color or very dark 

 sooty brown; a conspicuous broad white stripe beginnino- above eye 

 (but separated from it by a narrow space of dusky) and extending 

 backward to sides of hindneck; rest of upper parts plain olive- 

 green; malar region, chin, and throat white, or grayish white, the 

 lower margin of the former marked with a dusky streak, the adjacent 

 portion of the throat faintly flecked with dusky; rest of under parts 

 light yellowish olive-green or oli\'e-yellowish, the median portion of 

 breast and abdomen grayish white; bill black; legs and feet horn 

 color (in dried skin). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 133-143 (138); wing, 67-72 (69.6); 

 tail, 58-63.6 (61.1); exposed culmen, 11.5-12 (11.9); depth of bill at 

 base, 6-6.5 (6.2); tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.7); middle toe, 13-13.5 (13.3).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 130-130 (135); M'ing, 62.5-72.5 

 (67.4); tail, 56-64 (59.7); exposed culmen, 11.5-12 (11.8); depth of 

 bill at base, 6.5; tarsus, 22-23.6 (22.5); middle toe, 12-13 (12.7).' 



Young. — Head as in adults, but the dusky color duller and the 

 white stripe on sides of occiput and nape less purely white and less 

 sharpl}^ defined; back, etc. , much duller and grayer olive-green; under 

 parts mostly pale graj'ish, the sides and flanks slightly tinged with 

 light olive-green, the chest very faintly tinged with pale buffj' olive 

 and obsoletely streaked laterally Avith grayish; throat, etc. , as in adults, 

 but more grayish; mandible wholly light colored (buffy whitish in 

 dried skins), and maxilla with pale edge, except towalrd end. 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Volcan de Cartago; Volcan de Irazu; 

 Volcan de Poas; Rancho Redondo; Pirris), and Chiriqui (Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Boquete). 



CMorospingm pilealus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 581 (Volcan de Car- 

 tago, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 101 (Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



'Seven specimens (five from Chiriqui, two from Costa Eica). 

 ^ Five specimens from Chiriqui. 



