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chest more strongly tinged with olive and with the dusky basal spots 

 more pronounced, and with more or less concealed spots of black- 

 thighs black; rest of under parts clear gamboge yellow, paler on under 

 tail-coverts, especially the longer ones, which are nearly white; rump 

 yellow or olive-yellow; back, scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail black; a white spot at base of primaries, but no white on wing- 

 coverts nor on tail; upper back (sometimes median line of back also) 

 more or less varied with olive-yellow; maxilla blackish; mandiblemore 

 grayish (plumbeous in life?); legs and feet dusky (grayish in life?). 



Immature. — Scapulars and interscapulars broadly margined with 

 olive-yellow; rump and hindneck indistinctly streaked with dusky; 

 secondaries and wing-coverts narrowly edged with olive; throat and 

 chest plain gamboge yellow, like rest of under parts; mandible whitish. 



Ad>(.U male.— L,ength (skins), 210.82-212.09 (211.68); wing, 106.93- 

 114.30 (111.25); tail, 73.15-80.52 (76.71); culmen, 21.59-22.86 (22.10); 

 depth of bill at base, 18.54; tarsus, 24.13-25.65 (25.15); middle toe, 

 16.51-17.78 (17.^7). 



Adidtfeinale.—ljength {skins), 198.12-205.74(200.66); wing, 106.68- 

 112.78 (110.49); tail,. 74.42-78.74 (75.95); culmen, 20.32-22.10(21.34); 

 depth of bill at base, 18.29-19.S1 (19.05); tarsus, 25.40-26.16 (25.65); 

 middle toe, 17.27-18.03 (17.78). 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Cervantes, Tucurrique, San Jose, Rancho 

 Redondo, Turrialba, Navarro, Volcan de Irazu, etc.), and Veragua 

 (Calovevora, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, Calobre, etc.). 



Pheudicus libUdis "Baird, MS." Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 

 May, 1867, 478 (Cervantes, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868,102 

 (Tucurrique, Cervantes, San Jos^, and Rancho Redondo, Costa Bica) . — Sal- 

 vador:, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, iv, 1869, 177, pi. 5 (Costa Kica).— 

 Fkantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 300 (Turrialba, Costa Rica).— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 189 (Calovevora, Chitra, Boquete de Chitra, and 

 Calobre, Verf^ua). — Bodcard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 58 (Navarro and 

 Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 8; 

 An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Rancho Redondo de San Jos^, El 

 Zarcero de Alajuela, Cartago, etc.).— Nutting, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., v,1882, 

 495 (Volcan de Irazil, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1884, 335.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 53 (Irazii dis- 

 trict, Valza, etc., Costa Rica; Calovevora, Veragua). 



[Phmctictis} tibialis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27. 



lOoniaphea] tibialis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7551. 



Genus PTRRHULOXIA Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhuloxia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Aug. 15, 1850, 500. (Type, Cardindis 

 sinuatis Bonaparte. ) 



Conspicuously crested, short-winged, long-tailed Fringillidse with 

 short, thick, strongly curved bill, the adult male with plumage partly 

 red. 

 ' Bill very short, thick, and deep, with culmen strongly conve" and 



