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 42 BANGS — CHIRIQUI BIRDS Vol. Ill 



Rhamphocaenus semitorquatus Lawr. 



Two males, Caribbean slope of Volcan de Chiriqui, 1000 and 

 2000 feet, June. 



Gymnopithys bicolor olivascens Ridg. 



Six specimens, both sexes, Boquete, 4500 to 6000 feet, March 

 and April. 



Myrmelastes immaculatus (Lafr.). 



One adult female, Caribbean slope of Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000 

 feet, June 12. 



Grallaria princeps Scl. and Salv. 



Five specimens, both sexes, Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 7000 to 11,000 feet, April to June. 



Grallaricula vegeta * sp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen), from Caribbean slope of Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 4000 feet altitude, $ adult, no. 8552, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected 

 June 12, 1901, W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — Similar to G. jlavirostris Scl. of Rio Napo, Ecuador, but 

 much darker and grayer above and less marked below with blackish ; similar 

 also, to G. costaricensis Lawr. of Costa Rica, but darker above and less uni- 

 formly rufous below, and more marked with black. 



Color. — ■ Frontal region, lores and sides of head, ochraceous ; crown and 

 occiput grayish olive ; back bistre ; outer margins of wing feathers and tail, 

 Prout's brown; throat and breast pale ochraceous — the feathers of breast 

 margined with blackish ; belly and under tail coverts white, somewhat spotted 

 with blackish toward sides ; sides tinged with ochraceous. Upper mandible 

 horn color ; lower, pale yellowish. 



Measurements. — Type, § adult: wing, 66. ; tail, 20. ; tarsus, 19.5 (approx- 

 imately — both legs being broken by shot) ; culmen, 14.5 mm. 



' Vegetus — active, sprightly. 



