FAMILY FURNARIIDAE 7I 



The first record in Panama of this Httle-known bird is a female 

 taken by W. B. Richardson on the Rio Cupe at Cituro, a short 

 distance inland from Boca de Cupe, on May 7, 1915. This was listed 

 incorrectly by Griscom (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 78, 1935, 

 p. 338) from "Tacarcuna," as Cituro is on the southern side of the 

 Tuira Valley toward the base of Cerro Pirre. On February 25, 1927, 

 Crosby and Griscom collected a pair near the head of tidewater on 

 the Rio Sambu. Griscom (Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 282, 1927, p. 6) 

 wrote that the "two birds were with a flock of Warblers, small 

 Tanagers and Honey Creepers in a small flowering tree on the edge 

 of an Indian clearing, and were acting and feeding just like Warblers." 

 Dawson Feathers, with the George Vanderbilt Expedition for the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, collected one (of uncertain sex) at 

 Garachine, Darien. April 20, 1941, "in low country, near the 

 ocean." These are the records known at present. 



The race, described from Punto Muchimbo, Valle, on the Rio San 

 Juan, ranges in western Colombia east to the Rio Sinu. It differs 

 from the nominate subspecies of eastern Colombia (described from 

 Bucaramanga, Santander) in decidely darker color on the upper 

 surface, especially on the head, where the light streaking on the fore 

 crown in the nominate race is faintly or not at all indicated. (For 

 other comments see Vaurie, Oiseau Rev. Frangaise Orn., 1971, 

 p. 124). 



MARGARORNIS BELLULUS Nelson: Beautiful Margarornis, 

 Trepador Bello 



Margarornis bellulns Nelson, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, no. 3, September 

 24 (27), 1912, p. 12. (Head of Rio Limon, Cerro Pirre, Darien, Panama.) 



A tree creeper of sparrow size, rusty brown, with white throat 

 and under surface heavily spotted with white. 



Description. — Length 140-150 mm. Tail as in M. rnhiginosus. 

 Adult (sexes alike), crown and hindneck dark olive-brown, each 

 feather edged with dull black ; forehead spotted lightly with dull 

 white ; back and lesser wing coverts dull reddish brown, with in- 

 distinct shaft lines of black; greater wing coverts, outer webs of 

 primaries and secondaries, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail rufous- 

 chestnut ; inner webs of primaries and secondaries and shafts dusky ; 

 concealed bases of inner primaries and secondaries cinnamon-rufous, 

 narrow superciliary dull white, changing to buff posteriorly ; side of 



