I02 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



the breast streaked and the upper abdomen narrowly lined with 

 ochraceous ; under tail coverts rufescent ; under wing coverts and 

 inner edges of primaries and secondaries cinnamon-buff. 



A male collected on the lower slope of Cerro Pando, beyond the 

 Rio Chiriqui Viejo, Chiriqui, had the iris dark brown ; base of 

 mandible dull, slightly greenish, slate; rest of bill black; tarsus and 

 toes greenish gray ; claws brownish gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui), wing 89.1-94.7 (91.6), 

 tail 84.9-91.8 (89.3). culmen from base 24.2-26.8 (25.9). tarsus 

 27.0-29.4 (28.1) mm. 



Females (11 from Costa Rica, Chiriqui, and Veraguas), wing 

 87.5-92.1 (90.0). tail 84.5-91.3 (87.6), culmen from base 23.9-26.8 

 (25.4, average of 10), tarsus 27.0-29.3 (28.2) mm. 



Resident. Local and uncommon in the Subtropical Zone of the 

 mountains from western Chiriqui to eastern Veraguas. and on the 

 Caribbean slope of western Bocas del Toro, from 1375 to 2350 

 meters. 



While this attractive species, described originally from Costa Rica 

 more than a hundred years ago, has been fairly well known in that 

 country, it was not recorded in Panama until 1901 when W. W. 

 Brown. Jr., collected seven near and above Boquete, Chiriqui, includ- 

 ing in this record the Caribbean slope, across the divide in Bocas del 

 Toro (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 44). 

 Kennard also secured a male in Bocas del Toro at 1375 meters on the 

 trail leading from Chiriqui Grande on the Laguna de Chiriqui across 

 the mountain slopes to Boquete (Kennard and Peters, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, 1928, p. 455). Two females, in the California 

 Academy of Sciences, were collected by Mrs. M. E. M. Davidson 

 above Boquete on January 26, 1933, and February 12, 1934. Monniche 

 found them fairly regularly on his Finca Lerida, and on the slopes 

 above. 



Griscom secured a female on Cerro Flores, eastern Chiriqui, on 

 March 14, 1924. and received two females from Benson taken at 

 Chitra, eastern Veraguas, February 24 and March 8, 1924. (Griscom 

 overlooked inclusion of these in his list of 1935.) 



At Lerida, C. B. Worth on August 4. 1937, made the first observa- 

 tions on the nest (Auk, 1939. pp. 306-307). At an elevation of 

 about 1650 meters a trail leading down from a higher level had cut 

 into the side of a bed of volcanic ash where this faced a deep valley. 

 As the naturalist passed, an ovenbird came from one of the many 

 burrows in the face of the cut bank, a tunnel that "led upward at a 



