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heretofore been confused with agnatus, mainly because of the lack of 

 topotypical specimens of that form. 



A Tropical Zone form, confined to the lowlands, but apparently not 

 present in the forested section between Rio Piedras and Dibulla. It is 

 partial to wet places, but only such as are more or less in the open, such 

 as irrigation-ditches, banks of small streams, and puddles of rain- 

 water, and it is seldom seen in the forest. The bird spends most of 

 the time on the ground, hopping about in the mud or shallow water, 

 but when flushed will usually alight in a tree. It has a peculiar low 

 call-note, not often heard. 



Mr. Smith sent in two nests, each with two eggs, collected at Bonda 

 on May 15 and September 18. " The nests are of the usual Furnarius 

 style, made of layers of mud and saddled on a branch of a tree, form- 

 ing a rounded, domed structure, with the entrance on one side near the 

 bottom, communicating with an interior nest-chamber, lined with plant- 

 stems, apparently mostly petioles of leaves. The nests are about 8^2 

 to 9 inches high, and about the same in diameter. 



''The eggs are clear white, elongate oval, and measure 24.5 X I 7-S' 

 25X17-5. 25.5X18, 25X18.4." 



250. Sclerurus albigularis propinquus Bangs. 



Sclcnirus albigularis (?) (not of Swainson) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, XII, 1898, 177 (Palomina; crit.). 



Sclerurus albigularis propinquus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 

 1899, 99 (Chirua; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mns. Comp. Zool.). — ■ 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII. 1900. 121, 157 (Las Nubes and 

 Valparaiso; crit.). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, 164 

 (diag. ; range; ref. orig. descr.). — Hellmaye and von Seilern, Arch. f. 

 Naturg.. LXXVIII, 1912, 106, in text (Valparaiso; range; crit.; ref. 

 orig. descr.). 



Sclerurus propinquus Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 72 (ref. orig. 

 descr.; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 246 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). 



Sixteen specimens: Las Nubes, Cincinnati, Las Taguas, Las Vegas, 

 and Pueblo Viejo. 



Mr. Bangs remarked on the characters of the first specimen ex- 

 amined by him, and described the form as new upon the receipt of a 

 second example, comparing it with S. canigularis of Costa Rica and 

 S. albigularis of Venezuela. As a matter of fact it is easily distin- 

 guished from either of these, but is so close to 5". scansor as to be 



