858 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



It is not found in the heavy forest, but is partial to scattered clumps 

 of trees, hedgerows, orchards, and coffee-plantations. It is very fond 

 of all kinds of fruit and berries, evidently preferring them to insects when 

 available. 



683. Tangara larvata larvata (Du Bus). 



Calliste larvata Du Bus, Esquiss. Orn., 1845 (?), pi. 9 (Tabasco, southeastern 

 Mexico). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 54 (Juan Vinas, Orosi, and San Carlos). 

 — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 274, part (Turrialba 

 [Arce]). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 124, part (Turrialba 

 [Arce and Cooper], Angostura [Carmiol]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., 

 I, 1887, 109, part (Naranjo de Cartago, Cartago, and Jimenez). 



Calliste francisccB Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 98 (Angostura [J. 

 Carmiol], Turrialba [Cooper]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 298, part 

 (Costa Rica). 



Callispiza jrancisca Salvadori, Atti Roy. Ac. Sci. Torino, IV, 1868, 175 (N. E. 

 Costa Rica). 



Calospiza larvata larvata Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 47 

 (southern Mexico to northern Honduras). 



Tangara Brisson, Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 1908, 644, foot- 

 note (critical). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), Bonilla (Ridgway 



and Alfaro) (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo and Jimenez, large series; Cachi (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Sarapiqui and Guacimo. 

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



Carrillo, El Hogar (Carriker). Twenty-three skins. 



Costa Rican skins of Tangara larvata may be separated at a glance into 

 two series, all from the Caribbean slope falling into one, and those from 

 the Pacific into the other. When compared with skins from British 

 Honduras, the Caribbean birds are found to be identical with them, 

 agreeing also with Mexican specimens, and must therefore be true larvata 

 and not larvata fanny, as called by Mr. Ridgway. I should not say that 

 they are typical larvata, because they are not, but are so much nearer 

 that race that they may be distinguished from fanny at a glance. The 

 birds doubtless intergrade in Costa Rica, several skins showing a tendency 

 in that direction. 



"A fair series of specimens in the postjuvenal moult (taken in August) 

 shows that this moult is complete, including the wings and tail. In juvenal 

 dress the remiges and rectrices are more brownish, and the edgings of 

 the coverts and remiges are greenish rather than bluish." (W. E. C. 

 Todd.) 



