FAMILY FURNARIIDAE II3 



Arce (Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, pp. 142-143) when 

 labeling was often uncertain. The specimen, now in the British 

 Museum, is marked "Santiago de Yeragua, 1864, male." It seems 

 probable that it was from one of the mountain localities near Santa Fe 

 where Arce had made collections in that early period. In the heavy 

 forests of northern Code, at 475 meters, I caught one female March 

 1, 1962; in a mist net near our camp on the headwaters of the Rio 

 Guabal, in the upper watershed of the Rio Code del Norte. The 

 muscular stomach was crammed with insect fragments, including 

 those of some larval form, all of kinds to be expected in food found 

 under leaves. 



SCLERURUS MEXICANUS ANDINUS Chapman 



Sclertirus mexicanus andinus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 33, 

 November 21, 1914, p. 622. (Buenavista, 1370 meters elevation, Meta, Co- 

 lombia.) 



Sclerurus mexicanus anomalus Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 65, September 1922, p. 209. (Cerro Sapo, Darien, Panama.) 



Characters. — Lighter brown throughout ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts brighter reddish brown. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Canal Zone, eastern Province 

 of Panama, and San Bias), wing 76.3-83.8 (79.6), tail 48.4-54.4 

 (52.4), culmen from base 22.8-26.2 (24.6, average of 9), tarsus 21.5- 

 22.5 (22.0) mm. 



Females (8 from Darien and northern Colombia), wing 75.9-81.1 

 (78.1), tail 47.0-59.0 (52.4), culmen from base 21.1-25.7 (22.7), 

 tarsus 21.5-22.6 (21.9) mm. 



Resident. Uncommon, in Tropical Zone forests on both Pacific 

 and Caribbean slopes from the Canal Zone east through Darien and 

 San Bias (to Puerto Obaldia). 



The first specimens of this race known from Panama were col- 

 lected about 1862 by James McLeannan near Lion Hill on the rail- 

 road, in what later became the Canal Zone. Later two males were 

 secured here by W. W. Brown, Jr., in March 1900 (Bangs, Proc. 

 New England Zool. Club, vol. 2, 1900, p. 26), and another by E. A. 

 Goldman on January 13, 1911. Eisenmann has identified one netted 

 near Gamboa, July 3, 1969, by J. R. Karr. Thomas Barbour and 

 W. S. Brooks collected male and female on Cerro Sapo, Darien, in 

 April 1922, and the Fifth George Vanderbilt Expedition secured 

 another there in 1941. The first two mentioned were described as a 

 distinct race anonialiis, which in later study proved to be invalid. 



