18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 95 
November 6 I saw several small bands of these tanagers ranging 
with chattering calls through undergrowth in the heavy forest at 
Los Cuadros. The only one taken was a male still in the immature 
dress, which is like that of the female. In this stage it exhibits the 
lighter coloration of the lower surface that marks the female when 
compared with vinacea. The skull in this individual appeared. fully 
ossified, as in a completely adult bird. 
LANIO LEUCOTHORAX LEUCOTHORAX Salvin 
Lanio leucothorax Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864 (Feb. 1865), p. 581 
(Tucurriqui, Costa Rica). 
The only one of these tangers seen was a female taken from a 
traveling flock of forest birds in bushy growth at Los Cuadros on the 
Hacienda Santa Maria on November 6. This is one of the species 
of the Atlantic slope, here at its most western limit. 
EUCOMETIS PENICILLATA SPODOCEPHALA (Bonaparte) 
Chlorospingus spodocephalus BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 37, 
1853 (1854), p. 922 (Nicaragua). 
In the forests of the Hacienda Santa Maria these interesting tana- 
gers apparently were fairly common. On November 12 I shot three 
from a little group in a thicket overgrown with bamboo, where they 
were following a moving column of ants, hunting through the bushes 
above the insects. While not particularly wild they kept behind 
cover. Chattering calls came constantly from them. On November 
15 I secured one near the house and saw another. 
Three of these specimens show faintly indicated darker streakings 
on the upper part of the breast, thus indicating a slight approach to E. 
». stictothorax of farther south. They are, however, to be placed with 
spodocephala. 
Family FRINGILLIDAE 
HEDYMELES LUDOVICIANUS (Linnaeus): Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
Loxia ludoviciana LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 806 
(Louisana). 
On October 24, near Liberia, I shot an adult male in full winter 
plumage. Another of these birds called from the trees over the coffee 
plantation at the Hacienda Santa Maria on November 10. 
PASSERINA CYANEA (Linnaeus): Indigo Bunting 
Tanagra cyanea LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 315 (South 
Carolina). 
Two birds in immature plumage were taken in brush-grown fields 
near Liberia on October 26 and 28. 
