FAMILY PIPRIDAE 313 



moss hang from the bottom. The two eggs are dull white to pale gray, 

 marked with light and dark brown, varied in some to rufous-brown, 

 most heavily in a band around the large end. Measurements from 

 23 eggs ranged from 18.3x12.7 to 21.0x15.7 mm. The female re- 

 mained alone during incubation and the care of the young. The 

 scanty down on the young at hatching is light or dark flesh color, but 

 quickly becomes darker. The nestlings were fed insects and the pulp 

 of berries, the standard food of the adult. 



PIPRA CORONATA MINUSCULA Todd 



Pipra velutina minusctila Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 32, June 27, 

 1919, p. 115. (Quibdo, Choco, Colombia.) 



Characters. — Slightly smaller ; male, deeper black ; female slightly 

 more green. 



An adult male, collected on the Rio Boqueron, near the Peluca 

 Hydrographic Station, Panama, February 23, 1961, had the iris bright 

 reddish brown ; mandible and a narrow line on the cutting edge of the 

 maxilla neutral gray ; rest of maxilla black ; tarsus, toes, and claws 

 black. An immature male (in plumage stage like the female), taken 

 at the same place and date, had the iris wood brown, with other mark- 

 mgs as in the adult. At Armila, San Bias, February 21, 1963, an adult 

 male, had the iris reddish brown ; maxilla black ; mandible dark 

 neutral gray ; tarsus and toes dusky neutral gray ; claws black. An 

 immature male in green dress (resembling the female) taken there 

 February 23 was similar to the adult. 



Measiiremeyits. — Males (10 from western Province of Panama, 

 Darien, and San Bias), wing 56.6-58.8 (57.7), tail 24.2-26.2 (25.5), 

 culmen from base 8.8-10.0 (9.4), tarsus 13.0-14.6 (13.8) mm. 



Females (10 from Darien and San Bias), wing 54.0-58.2 (56.2), 

 tail 23.8-26.6 (25.0), culmen from base 9.4-10.6 (10.0), tarsus 

 13.0-14.1 (13.4) mm. 



Resident. Locally common from western Colon and the Canal 

 Zone, east in the eastern Provinces of Panama and Colon through 

 Darien and San Bias. 



In early collecting McLeannan secured several specimens, ap- 

 parently from near his station at Lion Hill. Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 70, 1918, p. 268) recorded a female taken by 

 Jewel at Gatun, July 30, 1911. In 1952, I found several on the Rio 

 Indio, in western Colon from near the mouth inland to El Uracillo 

 in extreme northern Code. A male in the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology at Berkeley was taken at Pina, western Colon by R. W. 

 Noyes, September 5, 1947. To the east I secured one on the eastern 



