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on outer webs with the color of the upper parts; lores, suborbital and 

 auricular regions dull grayish olive-brown; chin and throat pale grayish- 

 white, grayer along the sides; a broad band of bright yellowish olive-green 

 across the breast; median portion of lower breast, and abdomen pale 

 grayish-white, nearly pure white in the center of the abdomen; sides and 

 flanks dark yellowish-olive; under tail-coverts the color of the band across 

 chest; maxilla black, mandible horn blue (?); feet leaden horn (?). 

 Measurements: wing, 71 mm.; tail, 58; bill, 13; tarsus, 21. 



Female. — Does not materially differ from the male, the sexes being 

 similar. 



657. Chlorospingus novicius novicius Bangs. 



Chlorospingus albitemporalis (not Tachyphonus albitempora Lafresnaye) Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 101, part (Dota [F. Carmiol]?). 



Chlorospingus novicius Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, II, 1902, 67 (Volcan 

 de Chiriqui, Panama; W. W. Brown; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: El Copey, La Lagunaria, and Santa Maria de Dota 



(Basulto) (?). 

 Carnegie Museum: Ujurras de Terraba (Carriker). Four skins. 



I have examined a specimen of Chlorospingus albitempora (Lafr.), from 

 Ecuador, and find that it differs very much in several particulars from 

 Costa Rican birds, especially in the much smaller bill, so that C. novicius 

 Bangs is undoubtedly a good species. 



The range of this bird in Costa Rica is confined to the high mountains 



of the southern portion of the country, between 4,500 and 7,000 feet. 



I have referred birds from the Dota Mountains to this form, rather than to 



the northern race (C. n. regionalis), although I have not seen specimens 



from there, relying on their being the same as the birds from Ujurras de 



Terraba. 



658. Chlorospingus novicius regionalis (Bangs). 



Chlorospingus albitemporalis (not Tachyphonus albitempora Lafresnaye) Cassin, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 171 (San Jose, Costa Rica [Frantzius]). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 101, part (San Jose [Frantzius], 

 Turrialba and Barranca [J. Carmiol], San Mateo [Cooper]). — Frantzius, 

 Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 299 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 55 (La 

 Laguna, Juan Vinas, Navarro). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, I, 1883, 315, part (Costa Rican references). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XI, 1886, 239, part (Volcan de Irazii [Arce and Rogers]). — Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, no (La Palma de San Jose, Naranjo de 

 Cartago). 



Chlorospingus albitempora Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 163, 

 part (Costa Rica: Barranca, Navarro, San Jose, Turrialba, San Mateo, 

 Volcan de Irazu, Rio Sucio). 



