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(Ateneo, vol. 4, 1952, pp. 14—15, fig. 6) described a nest of this race 

 found in Chiapas in the joint of a fallen palm leaf well hidden by- 

 other palm fronds, 50 centimeters above the ground. The nest, made 

 of dead leaves and a few little sticks, lined with fine black rootlets, was 

 a deep, open, rounded cup 150 mm in outside diameter by 60 mm in- 

 side. The two eggs were cream colored, with spots and markings 

 of dark coffee color and gray forming an encircling band. They 

 measured 25 X 19.5 mm. 



Eggs of the subspecies Schiffornis t. olivaceus that I examined in 

 the British Museum (Natural History), found by T. A. W. Davis, 

 April 22, 1934, on the Mahaicony River, Guyana, were in a nest in a 

 hollow at the bottom of a cavity in a palm stump, on a lining of a 

 layer of dead leaves, with a few fibers. The stump was about a 

 meter and a half tall, with the hole near the top. The two eggs are 

 subelliptical in form, faintly buffy white, spotted boldly with slaty- 

 black and lilac-gray, mainly in a wreath around the larger end, very 

 sparingly elsewhere. They measure 24.7x18.3 and 24.6x18.3 mm. 



SCHIFFORNIS TURDINUS DUMICOLA (Bangs) 



Scotothorns veracpacis dumicola Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 



February 6, 1903, p. 103. (Divala, Chiriqui, Panama.) 

 Scotothorus furvtis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, September 



6, 1906, p. 118. ("Boquete de Chitra" = Chitra, Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Rufescent, with an olive cast on the upper surface; 

 chin, f oreneck, and upper breast rather dull reddish brown ; lower 

 breast, and abdomen pale olive-gray; sides, and under tail coverts 

 darker olive-gray ; varying to somewhat more reddish brown above, 

 and in the band across the breast; decidedly more olive on lower 

 breast, sides and abdomen. The darker shade of coloration apparently 

 is found in recently mature individuals. 



Measurements. — Males (13 from Chiriqui, Veraguas, and Code), 

 wing 87.5-92.2 (89.6), tail 63.0-68.6 (65.3), culmen from base 15.8- 



18.6 (17.1), tarsus 20.^23.6 (22.3) mm. 



Females (5 from Veraguas), wing 84.8-88.7 (87.0), tail 58.4- 



62.7 (59.8), culmen from base 16.4-17.6 (17.1, average of 3), tarsus 

 22.0-22.7 (22.3) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in forested areas in Chiriqui, Veraguas, 

 and Code; mainly on the Pacific side, but with records from the 

 Caribbean slope from Calovevora, Veraguas, and northern Code. 



While recorded from numerous localities in Chiriqui. this form 

 seems never to have been common there. Arce secured it at Bugaba, 



