236 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — JPART 3 



extension to the Pacific slope in the low northwestern mountains in 

 the latter country) . 



PHAENOSTICTUS MCLEANNANI MCLEANNANI (Lawrence) 



Phlogopsis McLeannani Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, 

 1860, p. 285. (Lion Hill Station, Panama Railroad, Canal Zone, Panama.) 



Phaenostictus macleannani [sic] chocoanus Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 65, September 1922, p. 208. (Cerro Sapo, Darien.) 



Characters. — Lighter colored, slightly less reddish brown on the 

 body; crown and hindneck grayer, less brownish. 



A male, taken at Armila, San Bias, February 26, 1963, had the 

 iris mouse brown ; bare skin of side of head bright blue, with a dull 

 yellowish green line below the feathered spot on the lower eyelid ; 

 bill black; tarsus brownish white shading to flesh color on toes and 

 claws. 



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

 Darien, and San Bias), wing 90.3-94.2 (91.8), tail 81.7-90.5 (84.8), 

 culmen from base 21.5-24.8 (23.8), tarsus 32.0-33.9 (33.5) mm. 



Females (10 from Colon, Canal Zone, Province of Panama, and 

 Darien), wing 85.0-89.8 (87.4), tail 78.5-83.6 (81.5), culmen from 

 base 21.3-23.2 (22.3), tarsus 30.0-33.7 (31.9) mm. 



Resident. Locally, fairly common in forests in the Tropical Zone, 

 on the Pacific slope from western Province of Panama, east through 

 Darien, and on the Caribbean side from northern Veraguas, through 

 the Canal Zone and the Comarca de San Bias to the Colombian 

 boundary. 



Lawrence, in his original description of this bird, wrote "Habitat. — 

 Isthmus of Panama" followed by mention of a second specimen, and 

 the remark that they "were obtained at a locality about equidistant 

 from both oceans." Sclater and Salvin, in a later account with a 

 colored figure of the bird (Exotic Orn., pt. 2, 1867, p. 17, pi. 9) 

 wrote that "Mr. McLeannan's specimens were obtained in the dense 

 forest in the vicinity of his residence," which indicates the old 

 Lion Hill station on the railroad now submerged in Gatun Lake as 

 the definite type locality. 



The point farthest to the west at which the bird is known with 

 certainty is the south face of Cerro Campana, in the western sector of 

 the Province of Panama, based on sight records. A specimen in the 

 American Museum of Natural History from near Chorrera, nearer 

 the Canal Zone, was collected by W. B. Richardson, November 6, 

 1910. The bird is fairly common from the Cerro Azul and Chepo 



