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thus cover all of the subspecies of the particular kind of bird con- 
cerned. In numerous cases the scientific name is that of a subspecies, 
but this does not in any way indicate that the common names that 
follow cover that species alone. They are not so intended. The 
English names, with a few exceptions follow those given in the 
recent useful and important paper by Dr. Eugene Eisenmann entitled 
“The Species of Middle American Birds”.® 
Selection of the Spanish names has been made with care, and in 
some cases after considerable thought. Some conspicuous birds are 
well known, so that their Spanish names are matters of common 
knowledge. Where several terms are in local use for the same bird, 
choice has been made of the one that seems most general, in some 
cases extending beyond Panama to other countries in Central America 
or the West Indies, for example, alcatraz, rather than cuaco, for the 
brown pelican. The list of names given by Sefior Alberto Frederico 
Alba in his book ‘“Algunas Aves de Panama,” published in 1946, in 
a number of cases has been helpful. In numerous instances with 
small, inconspicuous kinds, where no local name is available, one that 
seems properly applicable has been selected, sometimes from usage 
in other countries, sometimes from a descriptive term that seems 
appropriate, and sometimes by a translation of the name in English. 
In some instances the name in Panama refers to quite a different 
bird elsewhere, as ruisefior for the house wren, but this term is so 
universal in the country that it would be wholly inappropriate to 
attempt to change it. 
The black-and-white illustrations drawn by Walter Weber are from 
a series intended for a volume on the birds of the Republic of Panama, 
for which I have been gathering data for several years. They are 
intended to represent the species depicted as a whole, and not any 
particular subspecies from Coiba or elsewhere. 
Mention is made above, in the account of my fieldwork, of the 
crested hawk (apparently a Spizaétus), of which I saw only the feet, 
killed by a hunter. There is also a specimen in the Batty collections 
that should be recorded, a skin of Gould’s manakin (Manacus vitel- 
linus vitellinus) labeled “Coiba, J. H. Batty, Jun. 23, 1901 9.” This 
manakin, widely distributed in Panama from the lower mountains 
of Veraguas east to Darién, is a conspicuous bird, and one readily 
found, of which I encountered no trace on Coiba during the month in 
which I was daily afield. Possibly it may occur, but I feel there is 
only a slight probability that it does. The “make” of this specimen 
3 Published in Trans. Linn. Soc. New York, vol. 7, Apr. 1955, pp. i-iv, 1-128. 
