126 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



(the feathers tipped irregularly with black in first adult dress) ; rest 

 of upper surface, including wings and tail black, barred very narrowly 

 with cinnamon-buff to pale buff; side of head and entire under sur- 

 face pale buff to nearly white, barred narrowly with black, in some 

 the dark markings much reduced on foreneck, center of the breast, 

 and abdomen ; inner under wing coverts pinkish buff ; outer series 

 mixed white and buff, barred narrowly with black ; inner webs of 

 primaries and secondaries white to buffy white, mottled with dusky. 



Juvenile, both sexes, entire crown chestnut, barred narrowly 

 with black; rest of upper surface black barred with cinnamon-buff; 

 outer primaries dotted, and tail barred narrowly, with white. 



A male collected on Cerro Galera, Canal Zone, January 8, 1961, 

 had the iris dark red ; maxilla black ; mandible neutral gray ; tarsus, 

 toes, and claws neutral gray. 



A female, taken at Juan Mina, Canal Zone, January 17, 1961, had 

 the iris bright red ; a small area surrounding the nostril light mouse 

 brown ; rest of maxilla fuscous-black, cutting edge at base neutral 

 gray ; mandible, with distal half of cutting edge and tip grayish white, 

 otherwise neutral gray ; tarsus, toes, and claws neutral gray. An- 

 other of this sex, collected at Canita, Province of Panama, February 

 6, 1962, was similar. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from northern Code, Colon, Canal 

 Zone, Province of Panama and Darien), wing 70.5-74.6 (72.8), tail 

 61.0-69.0 (64.0), culmen from base 24.0-27.3 (25.7), tarsus 24.6- 

 25.7(25.1) mm. 



Females (10 from Bocas del Toro, northern Code, Canal Zone, 

 San Bias, Province of Panama and Darien), wing 71.0-73.2 (71.9), 

 tail 63.0-68.5 (65.2), culmen from base 23.7-27.7 (25.7), tarsus 

 24.6-25.7 (25.1) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in forests in the Tropical Zone ; on the 

 Pacific slope from central Chiriqui and Veraguas to the Canal Zone 

 (Cerro Galera, Chiva Chiva, Forest Reserve), eastern Province of 

 Panama (Pacora, Cerro Azul eastward), and Darien to the Colom- 

 bian boundary ; on the Caribbean side from western Bocas del Toro 

 east to eastern San Bias (Puerto Obaldia) ; to 730 meters on the head 

 of the Rio Changuena, in Bocas del Toro, 600 meters on Cerro 

 Pirre, and 575 meters on Cerro Tacarcuna in Darien. 



The reports for Chiriqui and southern Veraguas are those of 

 Salvin based on collections made by Enrique Arce. Salvin (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 144) recorded the bird in his first 



