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from the lowlands of the eastern side of the Azuero Peninsula. 

 Fairly common where hunting pressure is not too great. Though 

 sought for food and for sport, for reasons not clear this species 

 often remains in suitable country after the larger curassow has dis- 

 appeared. 



The only positive records for Chiriqui are of specimens collected 

 by W. W. Brown, Jr., one taken at Divala, December 8, 1900 (Bangs, 

 Auk, 1901, p. 356), and 5 from "Boquete and Caribbean slope 4000 

 to 7000 feet" in April and June 1901 (Bangs, Proc. New England 

 Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 21). Those listed from the Caribbean 

 slope are to be allocated to Bocas del Toro, leaving some uncertainty 

 as to actual occurrence in the Boquete area. The birds must have 

 been rare in this western sector, as the species was not included in 

 the Monniche collection from the Boquete region. It may be noted 

 also that Arce secured no specimens in his work in Veraguas and 

 Chiriqui, though Karl Curtis informs me that about 1912 he found 

 these birds plentiful in the area where Puerto Armuelles now is 

 located. On the Pacific slope of Veraguas I found a few in 1953 in 

 lowland forests along the Rio San Pablo at Congal and Guarumal 

 near Sona, and Aldrich (Scient. Publ. Cleveland Mus., vol. 7, 1937, 

 p. 53), in 1932, recorded them as not uncommon away from planta- 

 tions on the western side of the Golfo de Montijo. Handley found 

 them abundant in 1962 on Cerro Hoya to an elevation of 1,000 meters. 

 None are known from the eastern lowlands of the Azuero Peninsula 

 or from the region through the Pacific slope of Code and the western 

 sector of the Province of Panama. Karl Curtis informs me that in 

 his early years he found them on Ancon Hill, back of the Gorgas 

 Hospital, and that they were common also years ago in timbered 

 areas above the Rio La Jagua. In my work since 1946 along the 

 Cerro Azul and from there eastward through Darien I have found 

 them common in wilder areas, except that I did not record them any- 

 where on the lower Rio Jaque. It is probable that hunting by the 

 Choco Indians and other residents along that stream has killed 

 them. They are common in the mountains of Darien to 1000 meters 

 elevation, and in lesser numbers range to 1450 meters (Cerro Mali, 

 Cerro Tacarcuna) . 



In the Caribbean forests these birds are found throughout the 

 Republic from the Costa Rican boundary to Colombia in sections 

 where they have been free from overhunting. From Bocas del Toro, 

 there are specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 

 the Boquete Trail and from Guabo. A female in the U. S. National 



