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and on the southern slope of the great volcano. Brown collected a 

 pair at Divala in December 1900. I found one at 1300 meters above 

 Santa Clara, Chiriqui, March 19, 1954, and have another received 

 from Dr. Frank Hartman from above Palo Santo, February 26, 1960. 

 Mrs. M. E. Davidson collected three near Barriles — a male December 

 18, 1929, and two females January 17 and 20, 1931. Farther east, in 

 Veraguas, at Puerto Vidal on the Rio Vidal, near the boundary with 

 Chiriqui, on May 30, 1953, I found one in swampy woodland. An- 

 other was taken earlier in this area on May 25, at Zapotillo, on the 

 Rio Bubi (30 kilometers west of Sona). Specimens in the American 

 Museum of Natural History come from El Villano and La Maria, 

 south of Santiago. Dr. John Aldrich (Scient. Publ. Cleveland Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 7. 1937, p. 98) in February and March 1932 collected 

 a series in southeastern Veraguas, at Paracote, on the western shore 

 of the Golfo de Montijo, and inland along the Rio Mariato to 900 

 meters on Cerro Viejo. He recorded it as "rather common in the 

 undergrowth of the more heavily forested regions at all elevations 

 visited but because of its secretive habits would usually have been 

 overlooked had it not been for its rather musical calls." 



This form is recorded also on the Caribbean slope of Veraguas, 

 where Arce collected it in his early work at Calovevora. I have seen 

 two of his specimens from that locality in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Others were taken by Benson on the Rio Calo- 

 vevora in 1925. On March 1, 1962, I captured one in a mist net on 

 the head of the Rio Guabal on the Caribbean slope of northern 

 Code. One in the National Museum was collected at Cascajal, Code, 

 March 3, 1889. 



When Ridgway described this bird as the race furvus, because of 

 its darker coloration compared to veraepacis, the population of north- 

 ern Central America, he overlooked Bangs' earlier name dumicola 

 based on the same difference. 



SCHIFFORNIS TURDINUS PANAMENSIS Hellmayr 



Schiffornis turdinus panamcnsis Hellmayr, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 

 Publ. 266, vol. 13, pt. 6, November 14, 1929, p. 84. (El Real, Darien, Panama.) 



Characters. — Paler, more reddish brown above ; paler also on the 

 under surface, with the foreneck (except the chin) and upper breast 

 brighter reddish brown, compared with the lower breast and abdomen, 

 which are grayish olive. 



A female, taken at La Jagua, Panama, January 14, 1962, had the 

 iris wood brown ; cutting edge of both maxilla and mandible, and 



