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black; crown (except laterally) and occiput chestnut, the feathers 

 elongated; rest of head and neck (including lores and superciliary 

 region), together with back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and rump 

 uniform bluish slate color; wings blackish with slate colored edgings; 

 upper tail-coverts black, usually margined with slaty; tail black, the 

 three outermost rectrices extensively white at tip; under parts of 

 body saffron or cadmium yellow, usually deeper and more brownish 

 yellow on chest; under tail-coverts white, slate color, or slate-gray 

 basally; axillars and under wing-coverts white; bill, black; iris, 

 brown; legs and feet blackish. 



Ymmg In Jirst phima(je. — Above, including whole pileum, uniform 

 sooty slate; beneath similar but paler, the chest strongly tinged with 

 rusty or cinnamon ; ^ wings and tail essentially as in adults. 



AdAilt ^yjaZtf.— Length (skins), 118-128 (124); wing, 58-66 (63.4); tail, 

 55.5-62 (59.5); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.4); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.7).' 



Adult female.— l^&xizl'a. (skins), 120-127 (124.2); wing, 58-63 (61); 

 tail, 56-62 (58.8); exposed culmen, 8-10 (9.2); tarsus, 18-19 (18.6)." 



Highlands of Co^a Rica (Dota, Grecia, Barranca, Cartago, Naranjo, 

 Turrialba, Tucurrique, Candelaria, etc.) and Chiriqui (Volcan de Chi- 

 riqui, Boquete, Calovevora, etc.). 



Setophaga ftammea (notof Kaup) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 85 (Costa Rica).— 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 259, part (ref. to Cabanis, Iog. cit. and locality 

 "Costa Rica"). 



[Setophaga miniata.'i Subsp. a. Setophaga ftammea Sharpe, Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., 

 X, 1885, 419, part (loc. "Costa Rica"). 



Setophaga aurantiaca Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 261 (Dota, Costa Rica; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 96 (Grecia, 

 Barranca, and Dota, Costa Rica).— Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 313 (Costa Bica; crit.); 

 1878, 310 (monogr.); Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1870, 183 (Yolcan de Chiriqui 

 and Calovevora, Veragua) .— Frantzihs, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 294 (Cande- 

 laria Mts., Costa Rica).— BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 83 (Cartago 

 and Naranjo, Costa Rica) .—Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Avea, 

 i, 1881, 182 (Turrialba and Tucurrique, Costa Rica, etc.).— Sharpe, Cat 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 421.— Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 

 528 (Costa Rica; crit.); Anal. Inst. Fis.-Geog. Nac. Costa Rica, vi, 1893, 13 

 (Rio Naranjo).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Bica, i, 1887, 107 (Cartago 

 and Dota, Costa Rica) .—Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 61 

 (Boquete, Chiriqui, 4,000 to 4,500 ft). 



[Setophaga'] aurantiaca Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 243, no. 3525.— Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



Setophaga verticalis (not of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 166 (Veragua). 



' The first plumage of the only young example examined is incomplete, the yellow 

 of the under parts of the body of the adult plumage having been acquired. 

 '' Seven specimens. ' Five specimens. 



