FAMILY TINAMIDAE 21 



Females (6 specimens from Costa Rica and Chiriqui), wing 

 127.3-135.5, culmen from base 20.3-22.7 (21.6), tarsus 38.8-42.0 

 (40.3) mm. 



Resident. Found widely throughout the Tropical Zone on the Pa- 

 cific slope in western Chiriqui ; recorded in the Subtropical Zone to 

 1,250 meters near the Rio Chiriqui Viejo, west of El Volcan, and to 

 1,600 meters on Horqueta, above Boquete. 



This is the form of western Costa Rica also. Birds from the 

 highlands around the Chiriqui volcano are intermediate toward 

 C. s. capnodes of the Caribbean slope. The most eastern specimens 

 seen from Chiriqui are from El Banco, on the lower slopes of the 

 volcano below Boquete. The subspecific status of birds of eastern 

 Chiriqui and western Veraguas is uncertain. 



At the Finca Palo Santo, west of El Volcan, on February 15, 1960, 

 I was given the shells of 2 eggs from which the young had just 

 hatched. One of them, brought to the Museum for comparison, 

 agrees in color with the eggs of C. s. panamensis collected at Rio 

 Indio in western Colon. Skutch (Condor, 1963, p. 225) gives the 

 following measurements of 16 eggs of this race examined near San 

 Isidro del General, Costa Rica: 40.5-45.6x31.8-33.3 mm. He found 

 the complete set to be 2 eggs. 



CRYPTURELLUS SOUI CAPNODES Wetmore 



Crypturellus soui capnodes Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 76, 

 Aug. 2, 1963, p. 173. (Almirante, Bocas del Toro, Panama.) 



Characters. — Darker throughout than C. s. modestus; darker red- 

 dish brown above with crown blacker ; darker below, with the fore- 

 neck and upper breast darker gray. 



Measurements. — Males (5 from Bocas del Toro), wing 117.4- 

 125.0 (121.9), culmen from base 19.4-21.3 (21.0), tarsus 38.1-40.8 

 (39.7) mm. 



Females (4 from Bocas del Toro), wing 124.0-127.4 (125.5), 

 culmen from base 20.0-22.1 (21.2), tarsus 40.7-42.8 (41.6) mm. 



Resident. Local in the tropical lowlands of western and central 

 Bocas del Toro (Zegla, at mouth of Rio Teribe; Changuinola; Al- 

 mirante; Cricamola). 



Birds from Cricamola on the Chiriqui Lagoon belong with this 

 race, but begin to show an approach to C. s. panamensis. It is probable 

 that C. s. capnades is found in the lower Sixaola Valley in Costa 

 Rica. Specimens from the higher elevations of the mountains 



