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lowland forests up to about 1500 feet above the sea. Mr. Richardson has sent us 
skins from Salvador and from several places in Nicaragua, in which country 
Mr. Nutting met with two specimens at Sucuyé}®. The same collector also says" it 
is not common at La Palma in Costa Rica, where he shot a bird out of a high tree 
in thick forest. 
The iris in life is yellow. 
3. Ciccaba virgata. 
Syrnium virgatum, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 124°; Journ. Ac. Phil. (2) i. p. 51, t. 3; Sel. 
P. Z. S. 1856, p. 285°; 1859, p. 8368*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 221°; P. Z. 8. 1864, 
p- 370°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. vil. p. 3177; ix. p. 182° ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, 
p. 866°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 11. p. 273°°; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 237"; 
Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1883, p.456"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, ix. p.164"°; Zeledon, 
An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125™; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 327; Richm. Pr. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 520°°. 
Ciccaba virgata, Salv. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 216°; Ibis, 1874, p. 318°; 1889, p. 374; 1890, p. 89”. 
Syrnium lineatum, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p 462”. 
Supra fusca, sordide cervino undiqne vermiculata, scapularibus extrorsum albo distincte maculatis ; facie rufo- 
fusca, fusco variegata, margine suo et superciliis albo variegatis : subtus cervino-albida, pectore toto fusco 
et albido striato et variegato ; abdomine albicantiore, magis distincte fusco striato; tarsis fulvis, fusco 
maculatis; cauda nigricante, fasciis quatuor fusco-albidis notata. Long. tota circa 14:0, ale 9-0, 
caude 5:3, tarsi 1°9.. (Descr. maris ex Ca]deras, Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, Tampico (W. B. 
Richardson), Jalapa (de Oca*, Ferrari-Perez }°, Trujillo), Cofre de Perote (7'rujillo), 
Orizaba (Boucard, Sumichrast 11), Cordova (Sallé*), Vera Cruz (W. B. Richardson), 
Cacoprieto, Sta. Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Tapana (Sumichrast ), Tuxtla in Chiapas 
(W. B. Richardson), 'Teapa in Tabasco (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Izamal }2, Calotmul, 
Meco !9 20 in N. Yucatan * (G. F. Gaumer) ; British Honpuras, Orange Walk, San 
Felipe in the western district (/. Blancaneaux); Guatemata (Skinner ®), Choctum 
and Coban in Vera Paz, Calderas on Volcan de Fuego, Duefias, Savana Grande, 
Retalhuleu (0. S. & F. D. G.); Nicaragua, San Rafael del Norte (W. B. 
Richardson), R. Escondido (hichmond?*); Costa Rica (Carmiol), San José 
(Zeledon 4, Cherrie'>), Liberia, Alajuela, Cartago (Zeledon*), Irazu (Rogers ; 
C. F. Underwood, in mus. Rothschild), Dota Mts. (v. Frantzius®, Zeledon®), 
Exazu, Santa Rosa (C. F. Underwood, in mus. Rothschild); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui, Bugaba 1’, Chitra 1”, Calovevora !”, Calobre 17 (Arcé), Panama Railway 
(M‘ Leannan °7 71),—CoomBia; VENEZUELA 1°. 
_ This is by far the commonest species of Ciccaba in our country, occurring in the 
whole of the forest area, except perhaps in the higher mountains and in Western 
Mexico, where its place is taken by the closely allied C. sguamulata. In Mexico it 
reaches as far north as the hills above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, and thence 
extends throughout the State of Vera Cruz to the eastern side of the Isthmus of 
