842 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Carnegie Museum: Miravalles and Bagaces (Carriker). Eleven skins. 



Mr. Bangs, in a recent article (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, 37), 

 says that on account of the great variation in specimens of this species 

 from Tenorio and Cerro de Santa Maria, he is inclined to class it as a 

 subspecies of P. rubica, but that it is very different from P. rubica nelsoni. 

 I have examined the series in question, and while there is certainly a great 

 deal of individual variation present, I would hesitate to class the bird 

 as a subspecies of P. rubica, the two birds occupying (over a small area) 

 the same range. It is not impossible that it has interbred with P. rubica 

 to some extent, thus producing the darker birds found occasionally at 

 Tenorio and Cerro de Santa Maria. At all events I think it best to let 

 it remain as a distinct species for the present. 



Its range seems to be confined to the northwestern portion of the country, 

 from the Tempisque River northward along the higher part of the low- 

 lands and the foot-hills of the Pacific, up to at least 2,000 feet, possibly 

 a little higher. It is not common below 1,000 feet, but one specimen being 

 secured at Bagaces. Its habits are practically the same as those of P. 

 rubica vinacea. 



661. Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda fuscicauda Cabanis. 



Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn., 1861, 86 (Costa Rica; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 299 (Sarapiqui and 

 Angostura). 



Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 99 (Angos- 

 tura [J. Carmiol]). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 55 (San Carlos). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 302 (Bebedero [Arce]; Costa Rican 

 references). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1884, 414 (Pacuare [J. 

 Cooper]). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 199, part (C. R. refer- 

 ences). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 152 (S. Nicaragua 

 to N. Colombia). 



Phcenicothraupis fuscicauda Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, no 

 (Costa Rica). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, 490 (Rio Frio). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Bebedero (Underwood), Jimenez (Cherrie). 



Bangs Collection: Tenorio, La Vijagua, Tucurriqui, Jimenez (Under- 

 wood). 



Carnegie Museum: Guapiles and Guacimo (Carriker & Crawford), 

 Guacimo, Cuabre, Rio Sicsola, El Hogar, Esparta, Tucurriqui (Carriker). 

 Twelve skins. 

 This bird ranges over the whole of the Caribbean lowlands and lower 



slopes, up to at least 2,000 feet, and on the Pacific lowlands and foot-hills, 



