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report from Santa Fe and Santiago in Veraguas. In a later account 

 (idem, 1870, p. 194) he added Calovevora and Calobre, Veraguas, 

 and Mina de Chorcha (east of David) in central Chiriqui. These 

 localities are repeated in the summary account by Salvin and Godman 

 (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves. vol. 2, 1892, p. 195), and, w^ith the ex- 

 ception of Santiago, are found on specimens in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) received from Salvin and Godman. In modern 

 times the bird has not been recorded on the Pacific slope west of the 

 w^estern border of the Canal Zone, where it occurs on Cerro Galera, 

 and from that point eastward, in forested areas. It has not been 

 reported from the Azuero Peninsula. 



These are birds of thickets and the lower branches in forest trees, 

 ranging regularly to higher levels than is customary with related 

 ant-shrikes. While not abundant they are widely distributed, so that 

 they are encountered regularly in pairs in forested areas. Rarely I 

 have seen one on the forest floor. Their coloration and pattern of 

 markings serve to make them inconspicuous. 



A usual call is a low, high-pitched tsee-ee that has little carrying 

 power. The song is a single repetition of a single note, given rather 

 rapidly : whee whee zvhee. Occasionally I have heard them utter a low 

 rattling call, rather metallic in sound. 



At Almirante, Bocas del Toro, this species was called "dominick" 

 from the barred pattern of its plumage, like that of the dominique 

 variety of the domestic fowl. 



The notes of Major-General G. Ralph Meyer describe a nest found 

 July 20, 1941, in the Forest Reserve, on the Madden Road, Canal 

 Zone. This was a cup placed "in fork of small sapling" about two 

 and one-third meters from the ground. The two eggs, cream-white, 

 spotted irregularly with chocolate brown and dull lilac, measured 

 23.9x17.8 and 24.3x18.3 mm. Eisenmann recorded a fully grown 

 fledgling with its parents on the Navy Pipeline Road, near Gamboa, 

 October 12, 1965. 



In the U.S. National Museum there are eggs of the allied Cym- 

 hilaimus lincatus infennedius, collected by M. A. Carriker, Jr., in 

 northern Colombia as follows: A set of two comes from Santa Rosa, 

 southern Department of Bolivar, on the eastern base of the Serrania 

 de San Lucas, a spur of the Central Andes that forms the divide 

 between the lower Cauca and middle Magdalena valleys. In form 

 one is subelliptical, the other near short subelliptical. In color they are 

 white, dotted and spotted rather finely with olive-brown to fuscous, 



