180 General Notes. 



THE NAME OF THE PANAMA GREEN HONEY CREEPER. 



In Birds of North and Middle America, Part II, Ridgway in treating of 

 the genus Chloroplianes allowed but one form, C. spiza guatemalentiB (Scl.-), 

 to the region extending from Panama north ward, and placed C. spiza exsul 

 Berlepsch questionably in synonomy, saying he had seen no specimens. 



Examples of this species, however, from Panama and Chiriqui are much 

 smaller, with much shorter bills, than those from Guatemala, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua, etc., though they do not differ materially in color, and the 

 Panama bird is strictly referable to C. spiza exsul. An adult male of this 

 subspecies in my collection from Paramba, northern Ecuador, agrees ex 

 actly with birds from Panama and Chiriqui. It seems, therefore, neces 

 sary to recognize two forms instead of one for Central America, which with 

 their ranges would be as follows : 



Chlorophanes spiza exsul Berl., northern and western Ecuador, north 

 through Panama to Chiriqui. 



CIUoropJian.es spiza gualemalensls (Scl.) Central America from Guatemala 

 south probably to Costa Rica. 



Hartert (Novitates Zoologies, 5, 1898, p. 481), has already pointed out 

 the characters that distinguish the four geographical races of Chlorophanes 

 spiza, and the purpose of the present note is merely to call attention to the 

 fact that the su ^species of the Panama region is exsul and not guatcmaleruM. 

 The differences in size and length of bill in the four recognized races are 

 as follows: 



C. spizn spiza, Aripo, Trinidad, No. 15,233, cT adult : Wing, 70; tail, 48 ; tar 

 sus, 18; exposed culmen, 15.5. 

 C. s. ccertdescens, Rio Lima, Colombia, No. 3898, c? adult : Wing, 71 ; tail, 



47; tarsus, 17; exposed culmen, 13. 

 C.s. guatemalensis, Ceiba, Honduras, No. 10,167, <3* adult: Wing, 74.5; tail, 



50.5; tarsus, 19; exposed culmen, 18.5. 

 C. s. exsul, Paramba, northern Ecuador, No. 15,210, <? adult : Wing, 69 ; 



tail, 44 ; tarsus, 17 ; exposed culmen. 14.5. 



C. s. exsul, Divala, Chiriqui, No. 8199, cT adult: Wing, 68 ; tail, 45 ; tarsus, 

 18; exposed culmen, 15. Outrarn Bangs. 



ON THE CORRECT NAME FOR THE MOUNTAIN THRUSH OF 



THE LESSER ANTILLES. 



I have already shown (Smith Miscell. Coll., Quarterly Issue, XLVII, part 

 2, p. 288, Nov. 8, 1904) that Turdus montanus Lafresnaye (1844) is preoccu 

 pied by Voigtl831, Audubon 1838, and Tovvnsend 1839. 1 was then under 

 the impression that Margarops albiventris Lawrence was the next available 

 name, but this does not prove to be the case, as I had overlooked a note 

 by Cabanis (Journ. fur Ornith., p. 350, 1874), wherein he states that he had 

 examined the type of Hartlaub's Turdus apicalis said to have been from 

 Senegal, and that it was without much doubt this species. Turning to 

 Hartlaub's description in his System Ornith. West-africa's, p. 76, 1857, 

 where he credits the specific name to Liechtenstein (Crater opus apicalis, 

 Nomencl. Av., p. 27, 1854 nomen nudum), we find a good diagnosis of the 

 present species. If this view is the correct one, the species should be 

 known as Allenia apicalis. J. H. Riley, Washington, D. C. 



