ISO 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 Chlorophanei^ allowed but one form, C. spiza guatemalensis (Scl.), 

 to the region extending from Panama northward, and placed C. spizn exsul 

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



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

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

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

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

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

 actly witli 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 : 



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

 through Panama to Chiriqui. 



i'liloropltniies Kj>izii gudieuialensis (Scl.) Central America from Guatemala 

 south probably to Costa Rica. 



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

 the characters that distinguish the four geographical races of Cldorophanes 

 spiza, and the purj)ose of the i)resent note is merely to call attention to the 

 fact that ttie sn jspecies of the Panama region is exsul, and not gnaiemnlensis. 

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

 as follows: 



C. spha spiza, .Aripo, Trinidad, No. 15,233, d' adult : Wing, 70; tail, 48 ; tar- 

 sus, 18; exposed culmen, 15.5. 

 C. s. ccerulescens, Rio Lima, Colombia, No. 8898, cJ* adult: Wing, 71; tail, 



47; tarsus, 17; exposed culmen, 13. 

 C.s. guatemnlensis, Ceil)a, Honduras, No. 10,167, c? adult: Wing, 74.5; tail, 



50.5; tarsus, 19; exposed culmen, 18.5. 

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



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

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

 18; exposed culmen, 15. — Outram 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 Tardus montanus Lafresnaye (1844) is preoccu- 

 pied by Voigtl831, Audubon 1838, and Townsend 1839. I was then under 

 the impression that Margarops ulbiventris Lawrence was the next available 

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

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

 examined tlie ty[)e of Hartlauli's Tardus apiadis said to have been from 

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

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

 where he credits the specific name to Lichtenstein ( Cralernpus apical.is, 

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

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

 known as Allenia apicalis. — J. H. RUey, Wasldnglon, D. C. 



