FAMILY BUCCONIDAE 477 



Females (10 from Panama and Colombia), wing 88.8-94.0 (91.3), 

 tail 72.8-81.6 (77.2), culmen from base 31.7-36.4 (33.4), tarsus 

 17.4-19.4 (18.3) mm. 



Resident. Found locally in forested areas, on the Atlantic slope 

 from the Rio Code del Norte and El Uracillo, northern Code, east 

 through the lower Chagres Valley (formerly, no recent record) and 

 San Bias to Colombia; on the Pacific side reported from Capira, 

 western Province of Panama, and at Garachine, the Rio Tuira- 

 Chucunaque Valley, and Jaque, in Darien ; to 600 meters on Cerro 

 Pirre. (Early records from "Veragua," cited by some as Veraguas, 

 are uncertain.) 



The barred puffbird was reported first from Panama by Sclater 

 (Mon. Jacamars and Puff-birds, 1882, p. 110) who listed 2 specimens, 

 1 from his own collection marked "Panama," and the other in the 

 Salvin and Godman collection from "Veragua (Arce)." He remarked 

 that the bird "extends northwards into the Panamanic isthmus ; Mr. 

 Salvin's collector Arce obtained specimens in Veragua." In another 

 place (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 19, 1891, pp. 192, 193) he cited it 

 from "Veragua," and listed a specimen under that locality from the 

 Salvin-Godman collection. Salvin and Godman (Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Aves, vol. 2, March, 1896, p. 515) who include the species as 

 from "Veraguas (Arce), Lion Hill (McLeannan, in mus. G. N. 

 Lawrence)" add that the inclusion of the "State of Panama rests 

 on specimens sent by Arce in his later collections made at some place 

 west of the Line of Railway," and further that McLeannan had 

 sent a pair to Lawrence which Salvin saw in New York in 1874 

 (see Ibis, 1874, p. 315). 



A skin in the U.S. National Museum, secured from Boucard, 

 bears a stamped Museum Boucard label, on which is written "Col. 

 Arce Veragua," and another slip on which Boucard had written the 

 name of the bird and "Panama 1875." This specimen has the ap- 

 pearance of one prepared by McLeannan. In the Rothschild collec- 

 tion in the American Museum of Natural History there is a specimen 

 collected by Heyde and Lux, labeled Capira, Panama, February 3, 

 1888. This is the only report with full data from the Pacific slope 

 west of Darien. 



In Darien the George Vanderbilt Expedition of 1941 obtained 1 

 at Garachine. Goldman secured 2 males and 4 females at 600 meters 

 on Cerro Pirre in 1912, and Benson took others there in 1928. From 

 January 30 to February 5, 1961, I saw and heard them occasionally 

 around our camp at 450 meters on the slope of this mountain. They 



