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sometimes gracefully, ordinarily going steadily up, though when it 

 desired it moved downward like a woodpecker by simply raising the 

 tail and dropping down a few inches at a time. Occasionally I saw 

 one work around the underside of horizontal limbs. At the end of 

 March they began to sing a high, whistled song. Sometimes this was 

 varied by a low, tremulous whistle, given as the birds rested with 

 raised crests. They appear to be strictly resident. An excellent series 

 was taken near Tres Zapotes between March 7 and April 10, 1939, and 

 January 19 and March 9, 1940. Carriker shot two on Cerro de Tuxtla 

 on March 13 and May 8. There is considerable variation among them 

 from light to dark. 



For use of the name eburneirostris for this form, long known as 

 flavigaster, the reader is referred to van Rossem's finding 3 ' 1 that 

 Swainson's type of flavigaster is an example of the race described 

 later by Nelson as megarhynchus, so that favigaster must transfer 

 to this large-billed subspecies. The name eburneirostris thus be- 

 comes current again for the form extending from southeastern Mex- 

 ico through Central America. 



DENDROCOLAPTES CERTHIA SANCTI-THOMAE (Lafresnaye) 



Dcndrocops Sancti-Thomae Lafbesnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1852, p. 466 (Santo 

 Tomas, near Omoa, Honduras). 



Carriker shot three at about 2,000 feet elevation on Cerro de Tuxtla 

 on March 11 and 29 and April 9, 1940. Two were high up in large 

 trees, while the third had come down into the shrubbery above a 

 band of hunting ants. 



Family FURNARIIDAE 



AUTOMOLUS OCHROLAEMUS CERVINIGULARIS (Sclater) 



Anabates eervinigularis P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856 (Jan. 26, 

 1857), p. 288 (Cordoba, Veracruz). 



In the Sierra de Tuxtla, Carriker found this bird fairly common, 

 obtaining specimens on Cerro de Tuxtla on March 11, 19, and 29 and 

 April 3, and on Volcan San Martin on April 22. He shot two near 

 Tres Zapotes on January 17 and April 12. These birds were found 

 in thick undergrowth in the forest and were rather shy. 



While I have followed Hellmayr's recent treatment, I am not 

 certain that true ochrolaemus is conspecific with eervinigularis and 

 its allies. The freshly taken birds from the present collection appear 

 darker on the flanks and back than older skins, a difference possibly 

 due to age, though it may be of a subspecific nature. 



M Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 52, Feb. 4, 1939, p. 15. 

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