56 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



tinctly purple ; primaries and outer secondaries dusky gray ; central 

 tail feathers dull brown; the other rectrices similar to the primaries, 

 but tipped with brownish neutral gray ; malar region pale buff, becom- 

 ing whiter posteriorly ; ear coverts dull gray ; a prominent black 

 streak on side of head below malar region; throat and upper foreneck 

 dull white ; lower foreneck and breast gray, washed with greenish 

 on sides ; lower breast feathers tipped with pale buff ; abdomen pale 

 buff ; sides light brown ; axillars and under wing coverts grayish 

 brown. 



Juvenile, forehead duller ; crown and hindneck dusky gray, with 

 a faint gloss of green; upper surface dull chestnut, barred indistinctly 

 with dusky, and with feather tips of dull cinnamon ; lower surface 

 barred and freckled with dull gray and dull cinnamon; abdomen 

 mainly buff. 



Iris dark brown ; bill dusky, reddish at the base ; bare space around 

 eye carmine; tarsus and toes carmine; soles whitish; claws fuscous. 



Measurements. — Males (9 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 

 137.8-143.4 (140.3), tail 68.0-80.2 (75.1), culmen 12.2-16.4 (13.4), 

 tarsus 39.6-49.9 (43.1) mm. 



Females (5 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 131.8-135.5 

 (134.3), tail 71.2-76.0 (73.7), culmen 13.7-14.8 (14.0), tarsus 41.2- 

 43.2 (41.9) mm. 



Resident. Rare in the Subtropical Zone in the mountains of Chi- 

 riqui from 1,700 to 3,000 meters; 1 record for Veraguas (Chitra). 



This is a little known species of the high mountain forests that has 

 been collected on the slopes of the volcano in Chiriqui above Boquete, 

 and above Cerro Punta. Benson secured 2 specimens February 3 and 

 May 11, 1926, above Chitra, which are the only records for Veraguas 

 (see Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 280, 1927, p. 2). 



On March 1, 1955, I flushed 2 in the forest at 2,100 meters above 

 Cerro Punta and secured a male. Another recent record is of a female 

 obtained by Dr. Frank Hartman near the Casita Alta at 2,100 meters 

 beyond the Finca Lerida, above Boquete. 



The species ranges also in the mountains of central and southern 

 Costa Rica. Skutch (Wilson Bull., 1964, p. 243) near Los Cartagos, 

 in the Province of Heredia, Costa Rica, found a nest on June 22, 

 placed 4 meters from the ground on a slender branch of a shrub 

 standing in bamboo undergrowth in heavy oak forest. It was a flat 

 platform of twigs and a few rootlets, approximately 175 by 250 mm., 

 with green moss and liverworts mixed among the coarser materials. 

 It held 1 partly grown young bird. 



