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Huber (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 84, 1932, p. 245) de- 

 scribed a nest of this race found in Nicaragua. It was a cup about a 

 meter from the ground in a bush and made of leaves, small vines, plant 

 stalks, grass heads, and green moss, lined with fine brown plant stems. 

 The nest contained three eggs; one was "etain blue, spotted and 

 scrawled with dark brown and blackish brown and an occasional faint 

 mark of lavender mostly around the larger end." It measured 24.2 X 

 16.4 mm. 



PIRANGA FLAVA TESTACEA (Sclater and Salvin) : Hepatic 

 Tanager, Frutero Hepatico 



Piranga testacea P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1868, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 388. 

 (Chitra, Yeraguas, Panama.) 



Medium size; bill blackish; adult male, entire upper surface dark 

 red; undersurface dark red, with lighter tone on throat and center of 

 belly; female, entire upper surface greenish yellow and undersurface 

 dark yellow, with more greenish wash across breast; immature male, 

 like female irregularly tinged red. 



Description. — Length 159-170 mm. Adult male, entire upper sur- 

 face, including wing coverts and tail, dark red; remiges dusky with 

 outer webs dark red; breast, sides, and flanks slightly lighter and 

 brighter red, intergrading with more orange-red of throat, belly, and 

 undertail coverts; underwing coverts orange-red. 



Adult female, entire upper surface, including wing coverts and tail, 

 greenish yellow; remiges dusky, with outer webs edged greenish yel- 

 low; undersurface dark yellow, becoming more greenish on breast, 

 sides, and flanks; underwing coverts dark yellow. 



Immature male, like female irregularly tinged red. 



Measurements.— Males (10 from Panama), wing 84.6-92.8 (88.7), 

 tail 63.1-71.2 (68.4), oilmen from base 18.5-20.9 (19.9), tarsus 17.1- 

 20.3 (18.8) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 82.5-90.2 (87.9), 

 tail 63.9-74.7 (68.9) , oilmen from base 18.3-20.9 (19.8, average of 9), 

 tarsus 17.6-20.0 (18.9) mm. 



Resident. Common but local in the foothills of both slopes, mostly 

 between 600 and 1200 m. I have collected it at El Volcan, Chiriqui, as 

 high as 1260 m, at El Valle, Code, and in the Province of Panama at 

 Cerro Campana and Cerro Chucanti. Arce (Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1870, p. 187) collected it in Veraguas at Calovevora and 

 Chitra. Ridgely (in lift.) has found it at Santa Fe, Veraguas, and 

 Cerro Azul/Jefe, Province of Panama. In Darien, it has been taken 

 near Cape Garachine (Griscom, Amer. Mus. Novit. no. 282, 1927, p. 



