FAMILY FURNARIIDAE 79 



64.0 (60.3), tail 48.8-58.5 (56.2), culmen from base 15.1-16.7 

 (16.2), tarsus 18.0-19.7 (18.9) mm. 



Resident. Rare, on the higher slopes of Cerro Pirre, Cerro Mali, 

 and Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien. 



This race was first collected by E. A. Goldman who secured four 

 males and three females at the head of Rio Limon on Cerro Pirre 

 from April to June, 1912, at elevations of 1370 to 1580 meters. His 

 notes record them as climbing the trunks of small trees. Between 

 April 3 and 13, 1915, H. E. Anthony secured four at 1400 meters 

 on the head of the Rio Cuti, on the eastern slope of Cerro Tacarcuna 

 across the boundary in Choc6, Colombia, these serving as the base 

 for Griscom's description. Pedro Galindo secured one on Cerro 

 Mali, a spur of Tacarcuna, in Darien on May 28, 1963. The follow- 

 ing year I collected male and female there on February 22 and 27. 

 Two others taken on February 14 and 18 by C. O. Handley, Jr., 

 were preserved in formaldehyde. In the stomach of one of those 

 collected on Pirre by Goldman I found finely ground fragments of 

 Scarabaeid and Brenthid beetles, bits of ants and other hymenoptera, 

 roach egg cases, and spiders. 



PSEUDOCOLAPTES LAWRENCII LAWRENCII Ridgway: 

 Lawrence's Tufted-cheek, Coti Castano 



Pseudocolaptes laivrencii Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 1, 1878 (1879?), 

 pp. 253, 254. (La Palma de San Jose, and Navarro, Costa Rica.) 



Pseudocolaptes laivrencii panamensis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 141, 

 October 31, 1924 P- 4. (Cerro Flores, 6000 feet elevation, eastern Chiriqui, 

 Panama. ) 



Size medium, brownish, with white throat, and a tuft of elongated 

 huffy feathers on either side of the neck. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 dusky, streaked and tipped narrowly with pale brown ; hindneck 

 similar but with streaking broader ; back and scapulars tawny-brown 

 tipped faintly with dusky; rump and upper tail coverts tawny-rufous; 

 tail cinnamon-rufous, with feather shafts chestnut; lesser wing 

 coverts tawny-brown, with centers dusky ; middle and greater coverts 

 black, tipped with ochraceous ; inner secondaries cinnamon-rufous ; 

 rest of secondaries and primaries black to brownish black, with the 

 outer webs edged indistinctly with cinnamon-rufous ; lores indistinctly 

 grayish white ; side of head dull black, lined narrowly with dull white ; 

 an indefinite huffy line behind eye ; chin, throat, and side of neck 

 pale buff, feathers of the latter area distinctly elongated in a project- 

 ing tuft ; lower foreneck and upper breast pale buff edged with dusky 



