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this point in this direction it has not been traced. It also occurs in the State of 
Antioquia, where Salmon met with it both at Neche and Remedios‘. The only notes 
we have on its habits were supplied to Lawrence by Galbraith, who states that it is not 
often met with on the Isthmus of Panama, that it is found on high trees, and that the 
iris in life is brown 2. The species was figured by Mr. Sclater? and by Messrs. Marshall ¢, 
but the latter give no additional information respecting it. Captain Shelley” places 
C. maculicoronatus in the same section as C. auratus and its allies; but it has little 
in common with them, being a very isolated form. 
2. Capito salvini. 
Capito bourcieri, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 130 (nec Lafr.)'; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 363’; 
Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 212°; Marshall, Mon. Capit. p. 165 (partim)*; Boucard, P. Z. 8S. 
1878, p. 47°; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 123°. 
Capito hartlaubi, Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N.Y. ix. p. 180 (nec Lafr.)’; v. Frantz. J. £. Orn. 1869, p. 363°. 
Capito salvini, Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 119°. 
Supra viridis, capite toto et gutture coccineis, loris et mento nigris, macula cervicis utrinque glauco-albida: 
subtus abdomine toto olivaceo-flavo ad pectus coccineo lavato, hypochondriis distincte olivaceo flammu- 
latis ; rostro flavido; pedibus nigricantibus. Long. tota circa 5:8, ale 2-7, caudee 1°8, rostri a rictu 0°85, 
tarsi 0°8. 
2 capite summo et cervicis lateribus viridibus aureo lavatis, fronte nigra, superciliis et genis glauco-ceruleis, 
gutture viridi-flavo, pectore aurantio a mari differt. (Descr. maris et feminw ex Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (v. Frantzius?*), Barranca (Carmiol!7), Turrialba (Cooper 2), Orosi, 
Navarro (Boucard*®), Naranjo de Cartago, Birris de Cartago, Jimenez (Zeledon®) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé °). 
This Capito is very nearly allied to, if really distinct from, C. dourcieri of the more 
southern parts of Colombia and Ecuador. The only distinction is to be found in the 
female, which has no bluish-grey colour bordering the black band of the forehead on 
the inside. This difference occurs in all the Central-American specimens we have 
examined, but was not noticed until Captain Shelley wrote his catalogue of the birds 
of this family 9. 
We have no notes concerning this bird, but Salmon says of the allied C. dourcieri 
that its food is fruit. 
The range of C. salvini seems restricted to Costa Rica and the western portion of the 
State of Panama. Most of the collectors who have worked in the former country have 
met with it, and Arcé sent us specimens from Chiriqui3. On the Isthmus of Panama 
itself it appears to be absent, and in the State of Antioquia the closely allied C. bourcieri 
takes its place. Concerning the latter bird, as observed by him at Nanegal and 
Pallatanga in Ecuador, Fraser says that he found in one bird that the gizzard 
contained green fruit and minute seeds, and that the bare skin round the eye was 
yellowish ; and again that in another the iris in life was red, the bill greenish-yellow, 
the legs and feet green, and that the gizzard contained fruit and remains of insects. 
A solitary bird, living in high trees and rather stupid +. 
