FAMILY CRACIDAE 3O9 



upper breast cinnamon ; lower breast and sides cinnamon buff ; legs 

 and under tail coverts with the down dusky basally. 



Measurements. — Males (8 specimens from Costa Rica and 

 Panama), wing 199-208 (203), tail 208-227 (218), culmen from 

 base 24.3-26.8 (26.2), tarsus 62.3-68.3 (66.5) mm. 



Females (3 specimens from Costa Rica), wing 190-194 (192), tail 

 205-214 (210), culmen from base 23.2-26.8 (24.5), tarsus 61.0-65.3 

 (63.1) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in the tropical lowlands of western 

 Bocas del Toro from the Costa Rican boundary to the valley of the 

 Rio Changuinola. Birds from the western side of Bahia Almirante 

 (Water Valley, Isla Cristobal) east along the Laguna de Chiriqui 

 (Cricamola, Guabo) show intergradation with O. c. mira. 



To the north this race extends through the Caribbean lowlands of 

 Costa Rica to northeastern Nicaragua. 



The only definite record of the breeding of this form is that of 

 Huber (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 84, 1932, p. 207), 

 who found a nest near the Eden Mine in northeastern Nicaragua on 

 May 27, 1922. The 3 eggs were placed on a small structure of decay- 

 ing vegetation on the top of a stump hidden in a clump of bushes in 

 an open pasture. The eggs, with the roughened, pitted surface usual 

 in this genus, were creamy white, much stained from the damp nest 

 material. They measured 50.4x36.8, 51.5x36.6, and 52.0x37.7 mm. 

 A chick in the Chicago Natural History Museum a little over 2 weeks 

 old, collected by von Wedel at Cricamola, July 1, 1937, also indicates 

 a nesting season in May. 



In 1958 I found small flocks of these birds in Water Valley in the 

 edge of mangroves and along the border of the woodland behind, 

 and also noted them near Punta Rodriguez on Isla Cristobal. 



ORTALIS CINEREICEPS MIRA Griscom 



Ortalts garrula mira Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, no. 9, Jan. 1932, 

 p. 318. (Ranchon, San Bias, Panama.) 



Characters. — Similar to O. c. frantsii in brownish wash on breast 

 and foreneck, but definitely paler, with the head somewhat lighter 

 gray ; above paler brown ; tail tipped with buffy white. 



An adult male taken near El Llano on the lower Rio Bayano, 

 February 5, 1962, had the iris warm brown; eyelids and bare skin 

 on side of head dusky neutral gray; bare area on sides of throat rosy 

 red ; bill neutral gray ; tarsus and toes neutral gray ; claws black. 



