FAMILY CICONIIDAE II9 



for both slopes in the Canal Zone, from Corozal, Balboa, Pedro 

 Miguel Locks, Juan Mina, Lion Hill, Gatun, and Colon. Goldman 

 secured one at Portobelo June 1, 1911. Wedel collected one at Perme, 

 and C. O. Handley, Jr. secured one female on the Quebrada Venado, 

 back of Armila, San Bias. These are representative of this race 

 which extends beyond to Acandi, across the boundary in Colombia. 

 Griscom (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1932, p. 311) was in error when 

 he said that the subspecies panamensis "is devoid of the slightest 

 rusty tinge" above, since a wash of dark reddish brown is of common 

 occurrence in birds through Panama. 



On the Pacific side, Karl Curtis informed me that a colony nests 

 in the rainy season in the swamps near the La Jagua Hunting Club. 

 In 1949 I secured two from the Rio Mamoni, a short distance above 

 Chepo, and in February and March 1950, I noted several on the 

 lower Rio Chiman and at Charco del Toro on the Rio Maje. In 1959 

 I saw them on the lower Rio Tuira, between Pinogana and El Real, 

 and found others on the Rio Chucunaque near the mouth of the Rio 

 Tuquesa, This is the most inland point at which they have been 

 reported. One collected by Goldman near Gatun had the stomach 

 filled with shrimps. 



An adult female, shot on March 9, 1957, on the Rio Caldera, below 

 Pedasi, Los Santos, had the following colors of the soft parts: Iris 

 wood brown ; maxilla black, except the area of the nostrils (below 

 the operculum) which is dull yellow; cutting edge and upper side 

 of mandible dark neutral gray, lower margin and gonys dull yellow ; 

 lower eyelid, except as noted, and lores neutral gray ; spot on 

 anterior lower fid (adjacent to lores), and a line beside the feathering 

 above the eye greenish yellow ; gular sac back to base of rami dull 

 yellow, with a few spots of neutral gray; posterior fourth of gular 

 sac dull brownish gray; tarsus, crus, and toes greenish yellow. An 

 immature male, taken at the same time, had the iris duller brown, 

 no dark spots on the gular pouch, the front of the tarsus dull grayish 

 brown, and the posterior face, the crus, and the underside of the 

 toes light yellowish green. 



Other adults that I have examined as museum specimens have the 

 whole bill and the gular pouch back to the gape black, which appears 

 to be the color of the mating season. 



Family CICONIIDAE: Storks; Cigiiefias 



The family is worldwide in its distribution. The two species re- 

 corded in Panama, like herons, range in marshes and around lagoons. 

 Only the wood ibis is found regularly in the Republic. 



