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of Garachine. In March 1964, I collected one at the old Tacarcuna 

 village site on the basal slopes of Cerro Tacarcuna. In 1946 it was 

 fairly common at Jaque, Darien, but the following year I did not 

 find it inland along the upper reaches of the Rio Jaque. On the 

 Caribbean side it has been recorded at Perme and Puerto Obaldia ; I 

 found it also farther inland, back of Armila, between these localities. 



Their diversity in choice of food is shown by the contents of two 

 stomachs from birds taken by Goldman at Cana, Darien. One was 

 filled with parts of three large drupes and a few seeds. The other 

 held fragments of two large orthoptera and parts of another smaller 

 kind. 



Like the western race they are seen in the dead trees standing in 

 clearings, or less often on stubs that rise through the high tree crown, 

 visible in canoe travel along the larger rivers. In general mannerisms 

 the two forms are similar. I have found no record of the nest and 

 eggs of this subspecies. It may be noted that a set of two eggs in the 

 British Museum (Natural History) which are white without mark- 

 ings, with a distinct gloss, collected by T. K. Salmon at Remedios, 

 Antioquia. and attributed to this race, obviously are wrongly identi- 

 fied (see Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 517; 

 and Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Aves. vol. 2, 1890, 

 p. 119). It is probable that they are from a species of the family 

 Furnariidae. 



ERATOR INQUISITOR (Lichtenstein) : Black-crowned Becard, 

 Bacaco Pequeno 



Figure 26 



Laiiiiis Inquisitor Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus., 1823, p. 50. (Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil.) 



Medium size; similar to the Masked Tityra but smaller, more 

 slender ; male with crown and bill wholly black ; female, forehead, 

 and side of head chestnut-brown. 



Description. — Length 165-180 mm. Lores and space around eye 

 fully feathered; bill flattened, opening of nostril close to frontal 

 feathering, gonys much longer than mandibular rami. Adult male, 

 ninth primary shortened, narrow, about half as long as eighth and 

 tenth ; crown, lores, base of mandible, line on lower eyelid and spot 

 beneath eye black ; posterior margin of crown and nape clear white, 

 forming a broad band ; lower hindneck, back, scapulars, inner wing 

 coverts, inner secondaries, rump, and upper tail coverts pale gray; 

 basal half of tail pale gray, white to grayish white on inner webs; 



