848 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



668. Tachyphonus rufus (Boddaert). 



Tanagra rufa Boddaert, Tabl. Plan. Enl., 1783, 44 (based on Le Tangaroux 

 de Cayenne Buffon. PI. Enl., 711; adult female). 



Tachyphonus rufus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ill, 1891, 359 (Chapada, 

 Brazil).— Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 130 (Costa Rica, 

 southward through Central America and South America in general). 



Tachyphonus melaleucus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 

 309 (Costa Rica [Van Patten]). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 

 206 (Costa Rica [Van Patten]; coll. Salvin and Godman, adult cf ). 



The only authority we have for placing this species on the Costa Rican 

 list is one adult male taken by Van Patten at some unknown locality in 

 Costa Rica and recorded by Messrs. Salvin and Godman. Although the 

 skin bears no locality label beyond that of Costa Rica, it was most probably 

 taken somewhere in the southeastern part of the country. It is a bird 

 we would expect to find there, for it has been taken abundantly in northern 

 Chiriqui, and has doubtless only been overlooked thus far because little 

 collecting has been done in eastern Costa Rica contiguous to Chiriqui. 



669. Lanio melanopygius Salvin and Godman. 



Lanio leucothorax (not of Salvin, 1864) Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. 

 iv, 1867, pi. 32 (fig. of male). 



Lanio melanopygius Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 305 

 (ex "Lanio leucothorax melanopygius Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883"; 

 Bugaba, Chiriqui; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., VI, April 11, 1884, 412 (Pirris, Costa Rica; critical). — Sclater', Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 203 (no Costa Rican specimens). — Zeledon , 

 An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, no (Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Cherrie, Expl. 

 Zool. en el Rio Naranjo, 1893, 13 (Pozo Pital); Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891 

 -2, 1893, 25 (Palmar and Boruca). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 

 1902, 125 (Veragua, Chiriqui, and southwestern Costa Rica: Pozo Pital and 

 Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 309 (Boruca and El Pozo 

 de Terraba [Underwood]). 



Bangs Collection: Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum: Pozo Azul de Pirris, El Pozo de Terraba, and Boruca 



(Carriker). Fifteen skins. 



This Lanio is confined to the southwestern portion of the Pacific low- 

 lands and lower foot-hills, from the Pirris Valley southward and from 

 sea-level up to about 1,500 feet. It is most abundant at lower altitudes, 

 below 800 feet. I found it quite numerous in certain localities around 

 El Pozo de Terraba, in the heavy forest of the flat land just back of the 

 Rio Grande River. It is not gregarious like many of the tanagers, but 



