302 TANAGEID^, 



P, vinacea has a limited range in Central America, being confined to Costa Eica and 

 the State of Panama. In those countries it no doubt takes the place of the more 

 northern P. ruMcoides, just as P. fuscicauda represents P. sahini in the same 

 countries. 



3. Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda. 



Phvenicothraupis fuscicauda, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 86' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N, Y. viii. pp. 9', 179 ' j 

 ix. p. 99*; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350 ^ v. Frautzius, J., f. Orn. 1869, p. 299 ^ 

 Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 316 ^ 



Phmnicothraupis erythrolcBma, Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 83 (ex Bp. MS.)^ 



Plujmicothraupis ruMcoides, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 297 ". 



Obscure fusco-rubescens, subtus clarior, alis ' caudaque nigro-brnniieis rubescente marginatis, vertice medio 

 subcristato coccineo nigro baud marginato, gutture medio distincte laete coccineo ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 corylinis. Long, tota 7'8, alae 4-1, caudsB 4-0, rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 1-0. (Descr. maris ex Lion Hillj 

 Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



$ pallide fusoo-brunnea, pUeo dorso coneolori , subtus dilutior, ventre imo paUidiore, gula ocbracea. (Descr. 

 feminae ex San Carlos, Costa Rica. Mus. Boucard.) 



Hob. Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt ^, Janson), Grey town [Holland ^) ; Costa Rica i, 

 Angostura (Carmiol ^, v. Frantzius ^), Sarapiqui {v. Frantzius ^), Bebedero on the 

 Gulf of Nicoya [Arce) ; San Carlos {Boucard) ; Panama, Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ ^ 9). 

 — Colombia ^. 



Before this species was formally described by Dr. Cabanis in 1861, specimens of it 

 from Santa Marta, Colombia, were in collections bearing, so Mr. Sclater tells us, the 

 MS. name P. erythrolaima, Bp. One of these passed into the cabinet of the latter 

 ornithologist, and on the receipt of M'Leannan's specimens from Panama in 1864, we 

 were enabled to pronounce it identical with them and with P. fuscicauda of 

 Cabanis ^. 



The species may readily be distinguished from P. rubicoides, not only by its darker 

 colour, especially its tail, but by the clear definition of the scarlet throat, and by the 

 absence of a dark lateral border to either side of the occipital crest. The same 

 differences distinguish it from P. vinacea. Its nearest ally is the recently described 

 P. sahini, which has a similar crest; but the plumage of this bird, especially the 

 abdomen, is much redder and the throat not nearly so distinctly circumscribed. 



Dr. Cabanis's type came from Costa Rica, whence we have also received examples, 

 as well as from the State of Panama, where, however, it does not seem to be generally 

 distributed, as our collector Arce, in a large series of P. vinacea obtained at Chiriqui 

 and the neighbourhood of Santiago de Veraguas, did not include a single specimen of 

 this bird ; M'Leannan alone met with it on the line of the Panama railway. North- 

 wards of Costa Rica it spreads to Chontales in Nicaragua, where both Belt and 

 Janson obtained male specimens 7. It has also been recorded from the Isthmus of 

 Tehuantepec ; but the birds obtained there belong to the next species. 



