770 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Range.— WeHtem Mexico; Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela. 

 (Two species.) 



Although this genus, first placed in the Furnariidse, but usually 

 referred to either the Mimidse or Troglodytidae, is very aberrant as a 

 member of the Mniotiltidse, I do not know where else to place it. It 

 quite certainly does not belong to the first-named family, being 

 unquestionably an oscine bird; nor can it belong to either of the other 

 two, which are both " ten-primaried " groups, while Rhodincoickla is 

 " nine-primaried," the tenth primary being very minute and entirely 

 concealed. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OP EHODINOCICHLA. 



o. Superciliary stripe, throat, breast, etc., rose red. (Adult males.) 

 b. Smaller (wing 81, tail 78, depth of bill at nostrils 5.5) .' (Venezuela; Colombia.) 



Ehodinooiolila r.osea rosea, adult male (extralimitaP) 

 bb. Larger (wing 83-90, tail 82-93, depth of. bill at nostrils 6.5-7). 

 c. Upper parts slate-black; flanks dark slate color; wing and tail shorter, feet 

 larger (wing averaging 85. 6, tail 85.7, tarsus 27.3, middle toe 19.5). (Isth- 

 mus of Panama to southern Costa Rica. ) 



Bhodinociclila rosea ezimia, adult male (p. 770) 



cc. Upper parts slate color; flanks slate-gray; wing and tail longer, feet smaller 



(wing averaging 88.3, tail 89.3, tarsus 25.4, middle toe 18.1). (Western 



Mexico. ) Shodmociohla schistacea, adult male (p. 772) 



aa. Superciliary stripe, throat, breast, etc., tawny. (Adult females. ) 

 6. Smaller, with larger feet (wing 77-82.5, tail 78-84, tarsus 26-28). 

 c. Bill more slender (depth at nostrils 5.8) ; upper parts slate color, flanks slate- 

 gray Shodinocichla rosea rosea, adult female (extralimital) 



cc. Bill stouter (depth at nostril 6-7, averaging 6.7); upper parts slate-black, 



flanks slate color Ehodinociclila rosea eximia, adult female (p. 771) 



66. Larger, with smaller feet (wing 83-85, tail 83-86, tarsus 25).^ 



BhodinooicMa schistacea, adult female (p. 772) 



RHODINOCICHLA ROSEA EXIMIA Ridgway. 

 FANAKA TEKTrSH-WASBLER. 



Similar to H. r. rosea, but larger, with stouter bill and decidedly 

 darker coloration. 



Adult male. — Upper parts uniform slate-black, the greater wing- 

 coverts more or less distinctly edged with slate-gray; a superciliary 



' Coloration intermediate between that of R. r. eximia and R. schistacea. 



Bhodinociclila rosea rosea (Lesson). 

 Furnarins roseus Lesson, lUustr. Zool., 1832-34, pi. 5 (San Juan, Brazil); Lafres- 

 naye, Kev. Zool., viii, 1845, 10 (Colombia; crit.). — Rhodinocinda rosea Eeich- 

 enbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., no. x, Scansoriae (Sittinae), Aug. 1, 1853, 148; 

 Rlliodinocincla} rosea Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., no. x, 1853, 201.— 

 Rhodinocichla rosea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 141 (Bogota, 

 Colombia). — Tiirdus vulpinus Hartlaub, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., i, 1849, 276 

 (Venezuela; coll. Bremen Mus.; = female). — Cichlalopia rulpina Bonsi^^aiie, 

 Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 6. 



'■' Coloration similar to that of A', rosea rosea, but flanks rather paler slate-gray. 



