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about 750 meters on the upper Rio Changuena, Bocas del Toro, were 

 sent to me by Dr. Pedro Galindo. 



Tbe few reports on habits in this race have come from observations 

 made in Costa Rica. Carriker (Ann. Carnegie Mus. vol. 6, 1910, p. 

 658) wrote that "it is found only in the lieavy forest, and is almost 

 always seen feeding on a certain species of palm, probing with its 

 long curved bill between the clusters of nuts and between the bases 

 of the leaf-stalks where they emerge from the crown of the tree, 

 evidently in search of some insect." Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 128, 1964, p. 202) describes it as typical of its family in 

 its climbing habits, though unlike others in that he observed that "it 

 sometimes investigates a fallen tree trunk." He noted it at times in 

 foraging companies of mixed species, and speaks of its calls as "by 

 far the longest and most involved" of any species of the family. 



Apparently Cherrie at one time planned to name this race, as a 

 specimen in the U. S. National Museum that he collected August 25, 

 1893, at La Estrella de Cartago, Costa Rica, is marked type with the 

 name grandis, a nomen nudum cited in the heading from Bangs. 



CAMPYLORHAMPHUS PUSILLUS OLIVACEUS Griscom 



Campylorhamphus borcalis olivaccus Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 280, Sep- 

 tember 10, 1927, p. 8. (Chitra, 1100 meters elevation, Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Slightly smaller ; somewhat darker, blacker. 



Measurements. — Males (5 from Veraguas, eastern Province of 

 Panama, and Darien), wing 89.7-96.0 (92.4), tail 81.5-84.2 (83.0, 

 average of 4), culmen from base 52.1-56.8 (54.7, average of 4), 

 tarsus 21.9-22.2 (22.0) mm. 



Females (4 from Veraguas and Darien), wing 86.9-95.6 (90.1), 

 tail 79.0-86.5 (83.9), culmen from base 55.6-60.5 (57.9), tarsus 21.5- 

 22.1 (21.8) mm. 



Resident. Rare. Recorded from the forests in northern Veraguas ; 

 on Cerro Azul, Province of Panama; Cerro Pirre, Cerro Tacarcuna, 

 and Cerro Quia, Darien. 



This race was named from a female collected by R. R. Benson at 

 Chitra on the Pacific slope of Veraguas. With the type specimen 

 Griscom listed another, also taken by Benson, from the Rio Calove- 

 vora on the Caribbean side, which was said to be "darker than the 

 type, with narrower and more restricted shaft streaks." Two older 

 specimens in the 1 British Museum were secured by Arce at Chitra in 

 1869. A third in the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna 

 (formerly mounted, but when examined in June 1954, was in the 



