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PLATYPSARIS AGLAIAE SUMICHRASTI Nelson 



Platypsaris aglaiae sumichrasti Nelson, Auk, 1897, p. 52 (Otatitlan, Veracruz). 

 Near Tres Zapotes and Hueyapa this was among the most com- 

 mon birds, so that a good series was obtained between March 14 and 

 April 13, 1939, and February 26 and March 27, 1940. Carriker 

 found a few around Tlacotalpam, where he shot one February 7, 

 and saw one at El Conejo near the coast. They were known as the 

 copeton negro. They ranged in groves and to some extent in forest, 

 where they were found in the tops of the taller trees. It was com- 

 mon to encounter them along trails in second growth, and in low 

 trees standing in thickets. On April 11 I saw two nests and the 

 following day recorded a male carrying nesting material. The 

 structures were large, untidy masses of plant material, nearly as 

 large as a basketball, placed on the free ends of slender limbs in 

 trees growing in fairly open localities. They were conspicuous, but 

 because of their location on slender branches 25 feet or so from the 

 ground they were safe. About the first week in April, it appeared 

 to me, these birds became less common than they had been during 

 March. 



TITYRA SEMIFASCIATA PERSONATA Jardine and Selby 



Tityra personata Jardine and Selby, Illustrations of ornithology, vol. 1, pt. 2, 

 June 1S27, pi. 24 (Real del Monte, Hidalgo). 



A fairly common bird, this species is represented by skins from Tres 

 Zapotes, March 11, 14, and April 6, 1939, and February 27 and March 

 5, 1940. These are heavy-bodied birds, found usually in little groups 

 of three or four individuals, sometimes of as many as half a dozen, 

 that travel over the monte with bounding flight to alight on open 

 limbs in the taller trees. Those that bear drupes are attractive to 

 them, and here they hop about in the branches rather slowly and 

 sluggishly to feed. The natives call them borreguitos, little lambs, 

 probably because of their chunky forms and light colors. The notes 

 are most curious, consisting of grunting, squeaking calls. On April 

 10 I recorded a male examining holes in palm trees standing in an old 

 field, and two days later noted another of the same sex canning a leaf 

 into one of these openings. Ramon said that old woodpecker holes 

 made the usual nesting places. 



ERATOR INQUISITOR FRASERII (Kaup) 



Psaris Fraserii Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1851 (Oct. 1852), p. 47, pis. 37, 38 

 (Veracruz, Mexico 38 ). 



88 Designated by Hellmayer, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 6, 1929, 

 p. 223. 



