1918,j NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 239 



BIRDS OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A COL- 

 LECTION MADE BY MR. LINDSEY L. JEWEL. 



BY WITMER STONE. 



Through the generosity of several of its members the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences has come into possession of a collection of some four 

 hundred ])ird skins obtained by the late Ijindsey Louin Jewel in the 

 Canal Zone, Panama. 



Mr. Jewel was stationed in the Zone from late in 1910 to the earty 

 part of 1913, engaged in engineering work, and had also been ap- 

 pointed Vice-Consul at Colon. 



His beautifully prepared skins are accompanied by numerous notes 

 on the habits, nests and eggs of many of the species. Unfortu- 

 nately these do not cover all of the species, his death having prevented 

 his return to the Zone, where he had hoped to complete his study of 

 the bird life. They have, however, been used so far as they go in the 

 following list, and as all the field notes, coloration of the soft points 

 and description of the eggs and nests are to be credited to Mr. Jewel, 

 it was thought unnecessary to make use of quotation marks; more- 

 over, as there was frequently duplication in notes referring to several 

 specimens of the same species, verbatim quotation was not practicable. 

 Some few of Mr. Jewel's notes refer to specimens which were sent to 

 the American Museum of Natural History, but they have been in- 

 cluded wherever the species was unrepresented in the collection, Mr. 

 W. DeW. Miller having kindly sent me a list of such specimens. 



Mr. Jewel published an annotated list of the North American birds 

 observed by him during his stay on the isthmus in The Auk, 1913, pp. 

 422-429, with a brief introduction describing the condition of the 

 Zone at the time his collection was made, but did not identify anj^ of 

 the resident species. Some brief mention of his work and a list of 

 birds of the Zone compiled by him from Ridgway's "Birds of North 

 and Middle America" appeared in The Canal Record for January 28, 

 1914, pp. 219-220. 



We have no record of a collection of birds having been made on the 

 isthmus until 1847, when Lafresnaye described a number of specimens 

 obtained there by DeLattre, a French collector, who was on his way 

 to South America. This collection was purchased by Dr. Thomas B. 



