246 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



the first publication of the name pr'mccps it is here a nomen nudum. 



W. W. Brown, Jr.. collecting for Outram Bangs, secured five speci- 

 mens from April to June 1901 near Boquete and to 3000 meters on 

 the higher slopes of the great volcano. Peters (Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 71, 1931, p. 32) recorded a male taken by Wedel at 1065 

 meters in Bocas del Toro on the trail from Chiriqui Grande to 

 Boquete, March 29, 1928. Blake ( Fieldiana : Zool., vol. 36, 1958, 

 p. 533) listed three in the Monniche collection from about 1650 to 

 1735 meters near Lerida and \"elo above Boquete. We have a male 

 received from the Gorgas Laboratory, collected by R. Hinds at 

 730 meters on the upper Rio Changuena, in Bocas del Toro, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1961. 



Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, p. 223) in 

 Costa Rica reported it as ranging primarily on the Caribbean slope 

 but crossing the divide to the Pacific side in the northw^estern moun- 

 tains from Tenorio to Rincon de la Vieja. The bird is described 

 as primarily terrestrial "though when disturbed it may fly to a log or 

 a low branch." 



Rowley (West. Found. Vert. Zool., vol. 1, no. 3. 1966, pp. 160- 

 161) described the nest of a northern paler colored race G. g. och- 

 raceiventris, found at La Cima, Oaxaca, June 2, 1965, as "placed on 

 a large fallen rotting trunk of a moss covered tree around which 

 thick undergrowth was growing" by which it was well concealed. 

 The "nest was composed of a large quantity of wet leaves. . . . The 

 cup was lined with bits of moss and fine rootlets and had small twigs 

 interspaced with the softer materials. The two eggs . . . were 

 amazingly large for the size of the female. They were very much 

 rounded in shape ; unspotted deep robin-egg blue in color, and 

 measured 33.1x26.0 and 31.6x25.9 mm." In an accompanying 

 photograph the eggs appear elliptical in form. 



Of the related form Grallaria g. guatimalensis Edwards and Lea 

 (Condor, 1955, pp. 45-46, fig. 7) report that a nest found August 9, 

 1950, on the Hacienda Monserrate, Chiapas, was on a nearly hori- 

 zontal log that had fallen near a small stream. The nest was cup- 

 shaped, composed of small sticks, dry pine needles, moss, and dead 

 leaves. The outside diameter was 165-190 mm; inside diameter 

 100 to 115 mm; depth of cup 50-75 mm. It held one "pale blue, 

 blunt ended slightly glossy egg." The female when collected had a 

 "shelled egg in the oviduct, which was pale dull blue and measured 

 26x35 mm." 



