106 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



underparts light yellowish olive, more grayish on chin and throat, more 

 j^ellow on middle of breast and upper part of abdomen, the lower por^ 

 tion of the latter, with anal region and under tail-coverts, whitish; 

 length (skin), 96.52; wing, 63.75; tail, 37.59; exposed culmen, 9.65; 

 depth of bill at base, 8.13; tarsus, 13.21; middle toe, 10.41.^ 



Young. — Above buffy yellowish olive; beneath buffy brownish yel- 

 low, paler, more sulphur yellow, on abdomen, etc.; wings and tail 

 dusky, or dark grayish brown; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly tipped with light buffy; tertials broadly edged terminally with 

 dull white; secondaries edged for terminal half with dull buff, and pri- 

 maries edged with light olive; rectrices edged with light yellowish 

 olive; no 3'ellow at base of remiges or rectrices. 



Costa Rica to Venezuela and Ecuador. 



Chrysomitris xanthogastra Da Bus, Bull. Roy. Ac. Belg., xxii, pt. i, 1855, 152 

 (near Ocana, Colombia). — Sclatee and Salvis, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1870, 

 781 (Merida, Venezuela), 785, part (Merida, Venezuela; Ocaiia and Bogota, 

 Colombia; Costa Rica); 1879, 508.— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 321 (Ocaiia, Canute, 

 and Cauca Valley, Colombia, 5,000-6,000 ft.). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves. de Costa 

 Rica, 1882, 9. 



[Chrysomitris] xanthogastra Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 187.S, 34, part 



(Venezuela to Costa Rica) . 

 Clirysomltris xanthogaster Sai^yis and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 

 430, part, pi. 31, fig. 3 (Dota, Frailes, and Irazu, Costa Rica; Colombia; Vene- 

 zuela; Ecuador). — Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 209. 



Spinus xanihogasira Zbledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112 (Cartago, 

 Sarchi, and Dota, Costa Rica) . 



Chrysomitris bryanti Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 91 (Dota, Costa Rica; 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.).— Stimpson, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1868, 128, pi. 17.— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y.,ix, 1868, 104 (Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. 

 fiirOrn., 1869,302 (Costa Rica).— Boucaed, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 56 

 (Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica). 



IFriiigilki] bryanti Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 81, no. 7191. 



IFHngilla] columbiana (not Carduelis columbianus Lafresnaye) Gray, Hand-list, 

 ii, 1870, 81, no. 7187, part (fide Sharpe) . 



Genus LOXIMITRIS Bryant. 



Loximilris Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 1866, 93. (Type, Chrysomi- 

 tris dominicensis Bryant. ) 



Similar to Spinus but bill much stouter, more swollen, and less acute 

 (depth at base nearly equal to length of maxilla from nostril); wing 

 more rounded (ninth primary shorter than seventh) and wings without 

 any yellow. 



Hange. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



V 'One specimen, from Dota, Costa Rica. 



