308 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I50 



Females (4 specimens from Panama), wing 198-206 (203), tail 

 226-256 (236), culmen from base 23.4-26.4 (25.4), tarsus 61.7-64.0 

 (62.9) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in the tropical lowlands of the Pacific 

 slope from the Costa Rican boundary through Chiriqui and Veraguas, 

 including both sides of the Azuero Peninsula; east locally to the 

 lowlands beyond Pacora, La Jagua, and the mouth of the Rio Chico ; 

 found on the Pacific side of the Canal Zone (Farfan), and also in 

 the middle Chagres drainage between Madden Dam and Juan Mina ; 

 Isla del Rey, in the Archipielago de las Perlas; formerly on Isla 

 Pedro Gonzalez. 



This race ranges north on the Pacific slope in southwestern Costa 

 Rica. 



The type of cinereiceps, which I have examined in the British 

 Museum, received from the Herald expedition in a collection made 

 by Kellett and Wood, is marked, owing to some confusion, as from 

 the "north-west coast of America." Aldrich (Scient. Publ. Cleveland 

 Mus., vol. 7, 1937, p. 55) appropriately has designated Isla del Rey 

 as the type locality. The bird formerly was common there, but in 

 January, 1960, when I collected one near Ensenada, I was told that 

 now few were found. W. W. Brown, Jr., in 1900 secured one from 

 a native that had been taken on Isla Pedro Gonzalez. In 1944 I 

 failed to find them there, and have assumed that all have been killed 

 on that relatively small island. Though these birds have been known 

 long from the Archipielago de las Perlas it is possible that the 

 faisana may have been introduced there from the mainland, perhaps 

 by Indians. 



ORTALIS CINEREICEPS FRANTZII Cabanis 



Ortalida Franfsii Cabanis, Journ fur Orn., vol. 17, May 1869, p. 211. (Eastern 

 Costa Rica.) 



Characters. — Head dark gray; undersurface including the center 

 of the abdomen washed heavily with brown ; decidedly dark above ; 

 light tips on end of tail cinnamon-buff ; decidedly darker throughout 

 than the other races found in Panama. 



A chick of this race from Costa Rica (U.S.N.M. 64989), apparently 

 less than a week old, has the crown, side of the head, lower back, 

 and rump sooty brown ; upper back dull chocolate-brown ; hindneck 

 and bend of wing cinnamon-buff ; wing dusky gray with the outer edge 

 and tips of the growing remiges cinnamon, and the downy coverts 

 tipped with cinnamon-buff ; throat, lower breast, and abdomen white ; 



