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U. S. Nat. Museum : Jimenez, July, 1892 (Verrill); Bebedero, Feb., 



1890, La Candelaria and Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 

 British Museum : Azahar de Cartago, Sept. 29, 1898 (Underwood). 



This appears to be a very rare species in Costa Rica, not more than 

 about five or six specimens having been taken in that country. It 

 is a commoner bird in Panama and northern South America, but appar- 

 ently Costa Rica is north of its regular range, so that only a few strag- 

 glers are found there. There should be no confusion regarding the 

 distinction of S. albicauda Lawrence, from this species, the present 

 form having a prominent blackish bar across the middle of the two 

 outer rectrices, which is entirely wanting in albicauda. 



214. Stenopsis albicauda Lawrence. 



Stenopsis albicauda Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., XI, 1874, 89 (Talamanca, 



Gabb Expedition; Cooper Coll., U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis (not of Gmelin) Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI., 



1892, 583, part (Panama into South America). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1894, 392, part, in synonymy (reference to type of S. 



albicauda) . 



U. S. Nat. Museum : One female, type of species. 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Miravalles, one female. 

 Carnegie Museum: Miravalles, one female (Carriker). 



After an examination of Mr. Lankester' s specimen and the one in 

 the Carnegie Museum and a comparison of these with Lawrence's type 

 of S. albicauda, Mr. Ridgway declares them to be the same and that 

 Lawrence's species is a good one, very different from S. cayennensis. 

 Prior to the taking of the female by Mr. Lankester, the type of the 

 species was the only known specimen. There are now three, two of 

 which are in this country and one in Costa Rica. I herewith give a 

 description of the female. 



Female. — Crown deep sooty-brown, with a small amount of rufous 

 freckling ; a stripe from lores to nape (and encircling nape) of grayish- 

 white, freckled with dusky ; throat and sides of head pale buffy, indis- 

 tinctly barred with sooty-brown ; a narrow nuchal collar of bright 

 buff-ochraceous ; back and chest finely, but brokenly, barred with sooty 

 and pale buff; wing-coverts and inner tertials grayish-sooty, with 

 patches of whitish freckles and rufous spot ; scapulars sooty-black, with 

 rufous freckling on outer edge and a conspicuous spot or edging of 

 pale buff on inner web ; quills grayish-sooty, four outer primaries 



