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Tabasco, and Chiapas in southern Mexico, south in British Honduras, 

 and on the Caribbean slope in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and 

 Costa Rica to western Bocas del Toro in Panama. A still darker 

 subspecies P. c. badius that is browner, less cinnamon, has been 

 named by the Phelps, father and son, from a limited range in 

 southern Tachira in southwestern Venezuela. The nominate race 

 cinnamomeus, found throughout most of Panama, occupies the vast 

 region between fidvidior and badius. 



PACHYRAMPHUS CINNAMOMEUS FULVIDIOR Griscom 



Pachyrhamphus cinnamomeus julvidior Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 72, January 1932, p. 357. ("Toledo district" = Toledo Settlement, British 

 Honduras.) 



Characters. — Darker ; deeper rufous above ; more ruf escent on 

 under surface ; averaging slightly larger. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Bocas del Toro and Veraguas), 

 wing 74.8-80.7 (78.4). tail 50.1-61.0 (55.2), culmen from base 

 14.2-16.7 (15.7), tarsus 19.0-20.5 (19.5) mm. 



Females (10 from Bocas del Toro and Veraguas), wing 74.5-81.0 

 (77.0), tail 53.8-59.8 (57.4), culmen from base 15.8-18.4 (16.7), 

 tarsus 19.1-21.6 (20.2) mm. 



Resident. Locally common in the Tropical Zone in western Bocas 

 del Toro from the Rio Sixaola eastward, in the lowlands bordering 

 the Laguna de Chiriqui. 



This darker subspecies, like the nominate form, ranges through 

 thickets and forest edge, especially along the borders of pastures. 

 The trees along streams also are suitable habitat. During periods of 

 rain, I found them occasionally in growths of tall weeds at the edge 

 of fields. By the middle of February in 1958 they were mating, and in 

 early March I saw them working at rounded nests placed at the ends 

 of slender branches. 



Russell (Orn. Mon. A. O. U., no. 1, 1964, p. 112) states that the 

 "holotype of this race was collected by Peck in Toledo District ac- 

 cording to its label" so that Griscom used this, an administrative 

 division of the country, as the type locality. Russell added further 

 that "Peck's notes indicate that the specific locality was Toledo 

 Settlement, in the southern part of the District." 



Griscom in his description noted, regarding specimens from 

 Almirante, that "only two or three are obviously more richly colored 

 than the balance. I consequently refer these Almirante birds to 



