FAMILY FURNARIIDAE 9I 



Cascajal, Code, from a male collected by H. Th. Heyde and Ernesto 

 Lux on March 3, 1889. On the back of the label is the notation 

 "Irides dark brown," the date, and "found: virgin forest." 



In the American Museum of Natural History there is a specimen 

 received from the taxidermist and collector J. H. Batty, without date, 

 marked as taken at Chitra, Veraguas, by Arce. The sex, marked as 

 female, from the measurements is probably male. The preparation 

 resembles that of Arce. Two other specimens in this Museum, both 

 males, were collected by Benson and Gaffney on the Rio Calovevora 

 on the Caribbean slope of northern \'eraguas August 18 and 31, 

 1926. 



PHILYDOR ERYTHROCERCUS ERYTHRONOTUS Sclater and 



Salvin 



Philydor erythronotus Sclater and Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotrop., 1873, pp. 66, 

 160. (Bogota, Colombia.) 



Characters. — Decidedly paler above; anterior half of superciliary 

 line lighter, huffy white ; tail paler, more rufous ; under surface of 

 body paler, with sides, flanks, and under tail coverts lighter in color. 



A female, collected March 6, 1964, at 575 meters elevation near the 

 old Tacarcuna village site on the Rio Tacarcuna, had the iris dark 

 wood brown ; maxilla fuscous-black ; rami and cutting edge of 

 mandible dusky neutral gray ; gonys and rest of lower surface of 

 mandible dull yellowish white. 



Measurements.— Males (10 from Darien), wing 90.0-95.8 (91.8), 

 tail 67.4-73.2 (69.4), culmen from base 18.4-19.8 (19.1), tarsus 

 19.0-20.5 (20.0) mm. 



Females (10 from eastern Province of Panama and Darien), wing 

 80.4-83.4 (82.1), tail 59.8-66.7 (63.7), culmen from base 17.1-18.8 

 (18.2), tarsus 18.6-20.2 (19.4) mm. 



Resident. Recorded locally on the Pacific side from the higher 

 elevations of Cerro Azul, in the upper Tuira Valley, and on Cerro 

 Pirre and Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien ; on the Caribbean slope in the 

 Chagres Valley above (^amboa, and in eastern San Bias. 



The first report for Panama was a female taken by E. A. Goldman 

 near 750 meters on Cerro Azul, eastern Province of Panama, 

 March 26, 1911. The following year he found this bird common near 

 Cana on Cerro Pirre, Darien, where he secured a series of 10 

 specimens. 



A series in the American Museum of Natural History was col- 

 lected from March to May, 1915, by W. B. Richardson, one of the 



