NO. 6 RECORDS OF BIRDS FROM PANAMA — WETMORE II 



versity of Cincinnati, are now in the U.S. National Museum. In the 

 period of northern winter the knot, which nests in the far north, is 

 found from eastern United States south to Tierra del Fuego. There 

 are, however, few records of it in Central America. 



Caspian tern, Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas) : In the files of the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service there is record of one banded by L. Tyler 

 on South Limestone Island, in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario, 

 on June 11, 1955, that was found wounded at Aligandi, San Bias, on 

 the evening of November 12 of that year. According to the report, 

 forwarded by Dr. Alcibiades Iglesias, the bird died the following day. 

 The occurrence on the San Bias coast is one to be expected, as this 

 tern is reported as a migrant to the Caribbean coast of Colombia from 

 Cartagena to the lower Rio Magdalena. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Handley, Charles O., Jr. 



1959. A review of the genus Hoplomys (thick-spined rats), with descrip- 

 tion of a new form from Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 139, no. 4, July 3, pp. 1-10, 1 fig. 

 Wetmore, Alexander. 



1959. The birds of Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama. Smithsonian Misc. 

 Coll., vol. 139, no. 2, July 8, pp. 1-27, 1 pi., 3 figs. 



