104 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. [1885. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF COSTA RICA, INDICATING THOSE 

 SPECIES OF WHICH THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 POSSESSES SPECIMENS FROM THAT COUNTRY. 



^^ ■ By Jose C. Zeledon, of Sau Jose, Costa Rica. 



PREFACE. 



During a short residence in Washington, I have thought it advisable 

 to avail myself of the excellent facilities afibrded by the extensive 

 ornithological collections of the United States National Museum, under 

 the Smithsonian Institution, for the preparation of the present catalogue 

 of the birds of Costa Rica, my native country, with a view to correct 

 the several errors contained in a former one which I published at San 

 Jose, in the Spanish language, in June, 1882, and to add all of the new 

 species described since then, chiefly by Mr. Robert Ridgway, besides 

 several species of adjoining countries which have recently been obtained 

 within our limits by myself and others. It is intended as a preliminary 

 publication of a work of a more extensive nature, on the same subject, 

 which 1 have in contemplation, embracing descriptions of genera and 

 species, besides notes on habits and geographical distribution. 



The descriptions of Vireokmius verficaUs, Cyanocorax cucullatus, and 

 Cancroma zeledoni form the subject of special papers to be soon published 

 by Mr. Robert Ridgway, curator of the department of birds of the United 

 States National Museum. To this gentleman I feel under deep obliga- 

 tions for his very kind assistance in the preparation of this publication. 



I have made use of some of the many important changes of nomen- 

 clature, published as well as unpublished, which we owe to the labors 

 of the active investigator, Mr. Leonhard Stejneger. 



On this, as on former occasions. Professor Baird, Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has kindly granted me the most free access to 

 the collections. It gives me jiarticular pleasure to acknowledge this 

 fact, and to thank him very cordially. 



J. C. Z. 



[Species represented in the United States National Museum by Costa 

 Rica specimens are marked with an asterisk {•).] 



Order PASSERES. 



(OSCINES.) 



Family Turdid^. 



-?~*1. Catharus melpomeue (Co?).) 



-I- *2. Catharus frantzii Cah. 



" *3. Catharus gracilirostris »S>a/?'. 



— ^4' patliarus Diexicaniis {Bovaj}.) 



-*5. Catharus fuscater (Zo//-.) 



- 6. Hylocichla mustelina (Gm.) 



— 7- Hylocichla fuscescens (Steph.) 

 -__*8. Hylocichla aliciae (Baird). 

 —"9. Hylocichla swainsoni {Cah.) 

 _10. Hylocichla ustulata {Nutt,) 



