496 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



trees, and also searched through masses of creepers. Their calls, 

 heard regularly, were harsh and croaking in sound, suggestive in 

 tone of the notes of the long-tailed forest wrens of the genus 

 Campylorhy n chus. 



Though their breeding is not recorded so far as I know, it is sup- 

 posed that they nest in cavities. In confirmation of this, I saw females 

 examining old woodpecker holes and other similar openings. One 

 taken April 16, 1947, on the Rio Jaque was near laying. Stomachs 

 of those that I have examined held remains of drupes, with addition 

 of fragments of orthoptera in one. 



The bird of Cerro Pirre has been described as a distinct race, and 

 that of the San Bias as another. With more extensive series of 

 specimens now available (more than 50 individuals in all) birds of 

 both of these areas prove to be the same as the population of north- 

 western Colombia named by Dr. Frank M. Chapman. In the entire 

 range there is some variation in extent of the black markings on the 

 sides, but this is individual and not peculiar to any restricted area. 

 Beyond Panama this form ranges in northern Colombia from north- 

 ern Choco to the middle Magalena Valley. 



EUBUCCO BOURCIERII (Lafresnaye): Red-headed Barbet, 

 Capitan cabecirrojo 



Micropogon Bourcierii Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 8, May 1845, p. 179. (Bogota, 

 Colombia. ) 



Small ; back, tail, and wings green ; male with head and foreneck 

 red; females with foreneck yellowish green, cheeks grayish blue. 



Description. — Length 140-155 mm. Chin, lores, and a very narrow 

 line along the base of the bill connecting these two areas black; 

 rest of head and foreneck clear red; a narrow line of white across 

 the hindneck; rest of upper surface dull green; wings dusky, with 

 the outer webs olive-green ; tail dull green, with the line of the shafts 

 dull black ; breast orange, in some with the upper breast washed with 

 red, changing posteriorly to yellow on the lower breast, and to white 

 on the abdomen and under tail coverts; sides and flanks tipped with 

 dull green, the feathers basally grayish green, this color forming 

 broad, somewhat indefinite streaks ; inner webs of flight feathers 

 basally white ; under wing coverts and edge of wing yellowish white, 

 with the feathers on the carpal area dusky basally. 



Female, forehead, lores, and a narrow line around the eye black; 

 rest of crown and nape olive-green, with a wash of dull orange- 

 yellow, heavier and more prominent on the center of the crown ; 



