FAMILY RAMPHASTIDAE 519 



An adult female collected on Cerro Chucanti, Panama, March 9, 

 1950, had the iris wine-red ; bare skin on side of head bright green, 

 becoming greenish yellow from the nostril back, bordering the feath- 

 ered area, and orange-yellow beneath the eye, the lower eyelid being 

 green; bare skin behind mandible dull green; culmen shading from 

 greenish yellow at the base across the nostrils through yellowish 

 green in center to greenish gray at tip; sides of both maxilla and 

 mandible dull purplish brown, becoming brownish gray on sides of 

 mandible at base ; anterior face of tarsus and toes grayish blue ; 

 posterior surface of tarsus brighter blue; claws neutral gray; under 

 surface of toe pads honey yellow. 



Resident. Fairly common to rare locally in forested areas on the 

 Pacific slope from the Cerro Azul and the Serrania de Maje, eastern 



Figure 67. — Head of male Cassin's aragari, pichilingo prieto, Sclenidera 

 spectabilis. 



Province of Panama (Cerro Chucanti) through Darien (Cerro Sapo, 

 El Real, Cerro Pirre, base of Cerro Tacarcuna, La Laguna). On the 

 Caribbean side from Bocas del Toro (where it ranges from sea level 

 near Almirante to Cedral at 1,460 meters on the Boquete trail) 

 eastward through northern Veraguas, to Cerro Campana, western 

 Province of Panama, the western Canal Zone and the lower Chagres 

 Valley to eastern San Bias (Puerto Obaldia) . 



Salvin (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 157) reported it from 

 early collections of Arce from Santiago, Sante Fe, and Cordillera de 

 Tole, and later (idem, 1870, p. 211) added Calovevora. The species 

 is known to wander to some degree in heavily forested areas, but as 

 there are no other records for Santiago it seems possible that this 

 record and possibly that for Tole have been due to confusion in labels 

 on Arce's material. The reports for Santa Fe and Chitra are probable, 

 as these points are across the divide from areas where the species is 

 known. 



