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Tetraonidce. 141. Gallinago frenata {Lic//t.), 



. . s. 



nS. Eupsvchortyx sonnini . ... 



,^ . r^' ^ ' ArdeidcE. 



{Tetnm.), CC, S. 



142. Ardea cjanura {VieilL), C. 

 Char a driidce. 



— . .. . ,, . , ry ■,, s Pelecanidcs. 



139. ^^gialitis collaris {Viet//.), 



C 143. * Pelecanus fuscus Z,., C. 



ScolopacidcE. Laridas. 



140. Actitis macularia (Z.), C, 144. *Phaethusa magnirostris 

 CC, S. {Ltcki.), C. 



I shall conclude with notes on some of the more interesting of 

 the foregoing species by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Assistant 

 Curator of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, and with a few anno- 

 tations. I wish to express my thanks to Mr. Chapman for his 

 kindness in looking over the collection and in making the notes 

 which follow. 



Catharus aurantiirostris {Harilaub). This very interesting bird was 

 found at San Antonio and at Caripe but it was bj no means common. 

 It seems out of place in the tropics, where most birds are such weak 

 singers, for it has a song which for sweetness rivals that of any of our 

 Thrushes. It is very high and musical, and is heard only along some 

 stream in the deepest woods of the mountain sides. 



[Thryophilus rufalbus cumanensis {Licht.). 



Troglodytes ctunanensis 'L.iCYiT . Nomencl. Av. 1854,34. 



Thryophilus rufalbus castanotus Ridgw. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., XIII, 

 1S88, p. 386. 



Four adults have slightly smaller bills than two Panama specimens, 

 labelled by Mr. Ridgway Thryophilus rufalbus castanotus, but in other 

 respects closely agree with them. 



Lichenstein's t^'pe of cumanensis came from Cartagena and as speci- 

 mens from both east and west of the type localit}' agree with each other 

 it is more than probable that they would also resemble the type. I have 

 therefore taken the name of cumanensis for the southern form of Thryo- 

 philus rufalbus.— F. M. C] 



Very common in the underbrush in the bamboo woods of the Cuma- 

 nacoa valley. 



