FAMILY CUCULIDAE 141 



a slight bluish cast ; toes bluish neutral gray ; claws lined with black 

 along top of curve, brownish neutral gray on the sides. 



A female, collected on Cerro Chucanti, Panama, March 14, 1950, 

 had the iris dark brown ; bare skin around eye neutral gray, with the 

 bare lower eyelid light neutral gray; bill light olive-green shading to 

 greenish neutral gray at base; tarsus and toes neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Males (6 from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colom- 

 bia), wing 165.0-175.0 (169.3), tail 244.0-262.0 (254.8), culmen from 

 base 43.6-49.5 (46.4), tarsus 69.2-72.4 (71.6) mm. 



Females (11 from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia), 

 wing 160.0-169.0 (163.6), tail 237.0-266.0 (250.0), culmen from base 

 45.7-51.1 (47.9), tarsus 69.5-73.1 (71.5) mm. 



Resident. Rare, found locally in Tropical and lower Subtropical 

 Zone forests. Reported from Chiriqui (Cordillera de Tole), Veraguas 

 (Santiago), Canal Zone (Barro Colorado, Gatun), western Colon 

 (Chilar) ; eastern Panama (Cerro Chucanti, Charco del Toro), 

 Darien (Cana, Rio Tuquesa, Cerro Mali, Cerro Tacarcuna), and San 

 Bias (Perme, Armila, Puerto Obaldia). 



In the original description Sclater listed his type as from "Vera- 

 gua," with the statement that "besides Mr. Salvin's specimens, there 

 is an example of this species in the British Museum, stated to be 

 from New Granada." In the same number of the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London (1866, p. 67), Salvin writes "During 

 the past year two collections of birds were forwarded to Mr. Godman 

 and myself by Enrique Arce from Veragua. One was made near 

 Santiago de Veraguas, and the other from a small village called Santa 

 Fe." The following year (loc. cit., 1867, p. 129), Salvin reported on 

 these two, and a third from Cordillera de Tole which is in eastern 

 Chiriqui. Salvin and Godman (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 2, 1896, 

 p. 533) state definitely that Santiago is the locality for the specimen 

 of Sclater's description. This is, therefore, the type locality. Warren 

 (Type Spec. Birds, Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1966, p. 259) overlooked this 

 when she listed the type as from Cordillera de Tole. This was another 

 specimen received later. 



The early reports for Chiriqui and Veraguas are mentioned above. 

 In the Canal Zone, Goldman collected a male in the hills near the 

 western end of the dam at Gatun on January 21, 1911, and another 

 was taken by Chapman and Potter on Barro Colorado Island, Janu- 

 ary 7, 1926. In the eastern area of the Province of Panama I secured 

 2 on Cerro Chucanti on March 14 and 18, 1950. In Darien, Benson 

 shot a male at Cana in 1928, and I have the head of another taken on 



