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viii. p. 176, ix. p. 112"; Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 59”; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 147°; 
Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 500™. , | 
Elainea chiriquensis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 176; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 147". 
Fusco-olivacea, pileo obscuriore ; crista mediana celata alba; alis caudaque nigricanti-fuscis, tectricibus alarum 
albido terminatis, secundariis pallide olivaceo stricte limbatis: subtus pallide flava, pectore et hypochon- 
driis cinereis; gutture albicantiore: rostro nigricante corneo, mandibula ad basin carnea; pedibus nigri- 
cantibus. Long. tota 6:3, alee 3:3, caude 3-1, tarsi 0°8, rostri a rictu 0°65. (Descr. exempl. ex Sakluk, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
2 mari similis. 
Hab. Mexico? 812, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith), Peto in Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer) ; 
British Honpuras (Blancaneaur) ; GuaTeMA.a, Sakluk near Peten (0. S.), Duefas 
(O. 8.4); Honpuras, San Pedro (@. WM. Whitely°); Cosra Rica, San José (Hoff- 
mann", Carmiol 4, Nutting +), Irazu (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra, 
Calovevora, Santa Fé 1°16 (Arcé), David (Hicks ©), Lion Hill (Md‘Leannan °°), Pa- 
raiso Station (Hughes), line of Railway (Arcé).—Sourn America®, from Colombia 
to South Brazil (Bahia 1, Rio?) and Guiana. 
Lichtenstein’s description of this species was founded on a bird from Bahia}, and 
specimens from that place agree fairly with others from nearly every part of continental 
Tropical America. We note, however, that they are of rather a paler colour than the 
majority of specimens from other parts. 
At one time it was thought that the Central-American birds were separable from 
those of the South, and they passed under the name of Ff. subpagana. With a much 
larger series available for comparison than formerly, it now appears that no distinction 
can be maintained. The Chiriqui bird has also been separated, but this too has been 
merged in the southern form. 
In Mexico #. pagana is apparently a scarce bird; until recently only two specimens 
had reached us from that country, but Mr. Herbert Smith has now sent us an example 
from Teapa in Tabasco, and Mr. Gaumer one from Peto in Yucatan. Mr. Lawrence 
records it from the valley of Mexico ?’. 
In the highlands of Guatemala we only met with it on one occasion, when two birds 
were shot at the end of July at Duefias, nearly 5000 feet above the level of the sea. 
In the southern portion of Central America this bird would appear to be much more 
numerous, and we have many specimens from various points as far south as the Isthmus 
of Panama. 
It is usually found in open situations; one killed at Sakluk near Peten was in an 
open savanna, those near Dueifias in a willow-tree in a hedgerow. Mr. Nutting says it 
is common in the hedgerows near San José, Costa Rica. Salmon found both its nest 
and eggs at Medellin in Colombia. The nest he describes as being built of coarse 
grass mixed with bark or lichen, and lined with fine grass and feathers. The eggs, two 
in number, are white, spotted at the larger end with brown, generally placed in a ring. 
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