134 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



clary east to the lower Bayano Valley (Chepo, El Llano), including the 

 slopes of the mountains to Buena Vista above Concepcion, and near 

 Boquete ; also the eastern side of the Azuero Peninsula ; Isla Cebaco ; 

 on the Atlantic side from the Rio Indio Valley from near the mouth 

 of the river inland to northern Code (El Uracillo), through the 

 Canal Zone, and the region back of Madden Lake, along the Rio 

 Pequeni and Rio Boqueron to Mandinga, San Bias. 



Striped cuckoos live in thickets and open woodland, and do not 

 enter heavily forested areas. It is certain that they now inhabit exten- 

 sive regions closed to them in the precolonial period, since clearing 

 has greatly extended the type of habitat suited to their needs. The 



Figure 18. — Striped cuckoo, tres pesos, Tapeva naevia excellens, with alula 

 spread in display. 



earliest reports of the species came in collections made by Bridges and 

 by Hicks near David, by McLeannan along the Panama Railroad, and 

 by Arce at Calovevora and Chitra in Veraguas, and Mina de Chor- 

 cha in Chiriqui. W. W. Brown, Jr., in his work in western Chiriqui 

 sent specimens to Bangs from Divala taken in November and Decem- 

 ber 1900, and from near Boquete in early 1901. In my own studies 

 I have recorded this interesting bird throughout the lowlands of the 

 eastern side of the Azuero Peninsula to Punta Mala. It ranges east 

 in the eastern sector of Panama to the lower Rio Bayano, where I 

 observed it near El Llano in 1962, and in the Chagres Basin above 

 Madden Lake, where I recorded it near the Peluca Hydrographic Sta- 

 tion on the Rio Boqueron in February 1961, and at Candelaria on the 

 Rio Pequeni in March. Several were calling at Mandinga, San Bias, 

 in February 1957. 



Though the striped cuckoo lives in fairly open cover, and may be 



