860 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



1868, 98 (San Jose [Frantzius], Turrialba, and Navarro [Cooper]). — Frant- 

 zius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 298 (Guadaloupe). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 54 

 (Navarro). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 109 (Cartago and 

 Rancho Redondo). 



Calliste dowi Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 1, 1883, 272 (Costa 

 Rican references). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 124 (Irazu 

 district [Rogers], Rancho Redondo [Dow], Navarro [Cooper], Quebrada Honda 

 [Zeledon]). 



Calospiza down Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 46 (Veragua and 

 Costa Rica: San Jose, Rancho Redondo, Turrialba, Navarro, Guadaloupe, 

 Cartago, Irazu, Quebrada Honda). 



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

 note (critical). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Coliblanco (Ridgway and Zeledon), Lagunaria de 



Dota (Basulto), Irazu, and La Estrella de Cartago (from Mus. Nac. de 



C. R.). 

 Bangs Collection: Volcan de Irazu, La Estrella, and Azahar de Cartago 



(Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Vara Blanca. 

 Carnegie Museum: Escazu, La Hondura, Volcan de Turrialba (Carriker), 



twenty-eight skins; Escazu and La Estrella de Cartago (Underwood), 



two skins. 



"Very little variation is observable in this series, all seeming to be in the 

 adult plumage." (W. E. C. Todd.) 



This is the only Costa Rican Tangara which is confined to the highlands 

 and high mountains. Its range probably covers the whole of the higher 

 portions of the country, although there are no records from southern Costa 

 Rica, beyond the specimens taken at Lagunaria de Dota by Basulto. The 

 lowest point at which it has been taken is La Hondura, which point being 

 w r ithin the cold rainy Caribbean belt, is occupied by many forms not de- 

 scending to such a low elevation at any other point. In the region of the 

 central plateau it probably is not found below 6,000 feet, ranging from 

 that altitude up to timber-line on the volcanoes de Irazu and Turrialba. 

 Beyond the unusually high altitude at which the bird is found there is 

 nothing particularly worthy of note in its habits. 



686. Tangara lavinia lavinia (Cassin). 



Calliste lavinia Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., X, 1858, 178 (Rio Truando, 

 n. Colombia; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.); i860, 142, pi. 1, fig. 1 (do). — 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1876, 409 (Costa Rica). — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 

 116 (Costa Rica [Van Patten]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., 1, 1887, 

 109 (Costa Rica). 



