FAMILY TURAUPIDAE 



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Description. — Length 161-171 mm. Adult male, head, throat, and 

 sometimes upper breast scarlet, darkest on lores and superciliary; rest 

 of body except for upper back bright yellow; upper back, wings, and 

 tail black; middle wing coverts and tips of greater wing coverts pale 

 yellow, forming two bars; underwing coverts white and pale yellow. 



Adult female, crown, nape, rump, and upper tail coverts olive-yellow; 

 rest of upper surface yellowish green; greater coverts tipped dingy 

 white; lores and chin sometimes tinged red; undersurface yellow tinged 

 green; underwing coverts white and pale yellow. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from North America, taken in May), 

 wing 91.3-99.0 (95.0), tail 62.1-73.0 (67.6), culmen from base 15.7- 

 17.8 (16.5), tarsus 18.0-20.1 (18.6) mm. 



Females (ID from North America, taken in May and June), wing 

 89.7-99.5 (93.2), tail 63.6-71.1 (68.4), culmen from base 15.7-18.5 

 (16.9), tarsus 16.9-19.9 (18.5) mm. 



Casual. This species has been collected once in Panama, on Febru- 

 ary 15, 1960, when I took a male on the Silla de Cerro Pando, 1500 m, 

 El Volcan, Chiriqui. On March 22, 1974, 4 individuals, 2 of them male, 

 w r ere seen more or less separately in woodland patches and in trees 

 shading coffee plantations near Santa Clara (1200 m) by J. Baird and 

 others (Ridgely, in litt.). The normal winter range is from Mexico to 

 Costa Rica. 



PIRANGA BIDENTATA CITREA van Rossem: Flame-colored Tanager, 



Frutero Flamigero 



Piranga bidentata citrea van Rossem, 1934, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 7, 

 p. 367. (Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Medium size; adult male bright reddish orange with wings and tail 

 blackish, spotted white; female, undersurface yellow; crown greenish 

 yellow; back black and yellow stripes; wings and tail blackish, spotted 

 white. Immature male, like female with red coming in on head and 

 breast. 



Description. — Length 165-178 mm. Adult male, head and entire un- 

 dersurface bright reddish orange; small black patch at auriculars; 

 feathers of upper back black, edged brownish red, creating striped ef- 

 fect; rump and upper tail coverts brownish red; wings blackish, middle 

 and greater coverts and tertials tipped whitish, and outer web of remiges 

 finely edged red; rectrices dusky blackish, edged red; outer three pairs 

 tipped white; underwing coverts reddish orange. 



Adult female, crown, nape, and sides of head greenish yellow, with 

 small blackish patch at auriculars; feathers of upper back blackish, 



