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On March 29, 1939, near Tres Zapotes at the border of the low hills 

 back of Laguna Larga, I secured the male of a pair of these honey- 

 creepers as the two birds rested in the breeze in the top of an open- 

 limbed tree that projected above the heavy forest. On April 6 I shot 

 a female from a tall tree in heavy, swampy woodland below the Cerro 

 Chico Zapote. It was interesting to note the elongate, somewhat flat- 

 tened, and rather heavy body in these birds as compared with Coereba, 

 and also the large stomach and the wide diameter of the intestines. 

 It seems not impossible that these two genera should be placed in sepa- 

 rate subfamilies. The male mentioned had eaten three drupes as large 

 as medium-sized peas, which were held in the throat. Carriker found 

 these birds fairly abundant over the lower slopes of Cerro de Tuxtla 

 about old clearings and in second growth. He collected specimens on 

 March 19 and May 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11. 



Mrs. Hobart M. Smith, when at Finca Juarez in Chiapas, Mexico, 

 during investigations there by Dr. Smith under the Walter Kathbone 

 Bacon Traveling Scholarship, collected for the U. S. National Museum 

 2 males and 3 females of the blue honey-creeper at the type locality of 

 Cyanerpes cyaneus stnatipectus Brodkorb.* 52 Three females appear to 

 have slightly heavier bills than most cameipes seen but are equaled in 

 this by two of those from Tres Zapotes. The color is matched by occa- 

 sional birds from elsewhere in the range. Two males are not to be 

 distinguished in bill size or color from a considerable series of cameipes 

 from Mexico to Panama. After a prolonged examination of a large 

 series of specimens of Cijanerpes cyaneus throughout its entire range, 

 I incline to believe that more material is required to prove that striati- 

 pectus is definitely distinct in view of the individual variation in this 

 group. 



COEREBA FLAVEOLA MEXICANA (Sclater) 



Certhiola mexicana P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 185G (Jan. 2G, 1857), 

 p. 286 (southern Mexico). 



This bird was rather rare. On March 15, 1939, I found two at a 

 flowering tree near camp and shot a female. I recorded others on 

 March 21 and 29. Carriker in 1940 secured specimens at Tres 

 Zapotes on January 29 and February 27, at between 800 and 1,200 

 feet elevation on Cerro de Tuxtla on May 4, and at about 3,500 feet 

 on Volcan San Martin on April 16. 



The specimen from which Sclater drew his description was with- 

 out locality but was part of a considerable collection brought by 

 Auguste Salle from a journey in southern Mexico. The birds were 

 obtained principally near Cordoba in Veracruz, with some from else- 



92 Cyanerpes cyaneus striatipecttts Brodkorb, Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 

 369, Apr. 11, 1938, p. 5 (Finca Juarez, Chiapas, altitude 900 meters). 



