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lowland forests up to about 1500 feet above the sea. Mr. Eichardson has sent us 

 skins from Salvador and from several places in Nicaragua, in which country 

 Mr. Nutting met with two specimens at Sucuya ^^. The same collector also says ^^ it 

 is not common at La Palma in Costa Kica, where he shot a bird out of a high tree 

 in thick forest. 



The iris in life is yellow. 



3. Ciccaba virgata. 



Syrnium virgatum, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848^ p. 124^; Joum. Ac. Phil. (2) ii. p. 51, t. 3^; Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1856, p. 285 ' ; 1859, p. 368 * ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 221 " ; P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 370°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 317'; ix. p. 132 « ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, 

 p. 366 ' ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 273 " ; Suraichrast, La Nat. v. p. 237 " ; 

 Boucard, P.Z. S. 1883, p. 456'"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 164"; Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125"; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 327"; Eichm. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 520 ^\ 



Ciccaba virgata, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 216"; Ibis, 1874, p. 318 ''; 1889, p. 374 " ; 1890, p. 89". 



Syrnium lineatum, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p 462 "\ 



Supra fusca, sordide cervino undiqne vermiculata, scapularibus extrorsum albo distincte maculatis ; facie rufo- 

 fusca, fusco variegata, margine suo et supereiliis albo variegatis : subtus cervino-albida, pectore toto fusco 

 et albido striate et variegato ; abdomine albicantiore, magis distincte fusco striato ; tarsis fulvis, fusco 

 maculatis ; cauda nigricante, fasciis quatuor fusco-albidis notata. Long, tota circa 14*0, alae 9-0, 

 caudse 5'3, tarsi 1'9. • (Descr. maris ex CaJderas, Volcau de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, Tampico [W. B. 

 Richardson), Jalapa {de Oca ^, Ferrari-Perez ^^, Trujillo), Cofre de Perote {Trujillo), 

 Orizaba {Boucard, Sumichrast ^^), Cordova {Salle ^), Vera Cruz {W. B. Eichardson), 

 Cacoprieto, Sta. Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Tapana {Sumichrast i^), Tuxtla in Chiapas 

 {W. B. Richardson), Teapa in Tabasco {Mrs. II. H. Smith), IzamaP^^ Calotmul, 

 Meco ^^ ^^ in N. Yucatan ^^ ( Q, p, Gaumer) ; British Honduras, Orange Walk, San 

 Felipe in the western district {P. Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala {Skinner^), Choctum 

 and Coban in Vera Paz, Calderas on Volcan de Fuego, Duenas, Savana Grande, 

 Retalhuleu {0. S. & P. D. G.); Nicaragua, San Rafael del Norte {W. B. 

 Richardson), E. Escondido {Richmond ^^) ; Costa Eica {Carmiol), San Josd 

 {Zeledon'^S Cherrie '^^), Liberia, Alajuela, Cartago {Zeledon^^), Irazu {Rogers; 

 C. P. Underwood, in mus. Rothschild), Dota Mts. {v. Prantzius^, Zeledon^), 

 Exazu, Santa Eosa {C. P. Underwood, in mus. Rothschild) ; Panama, Volcan de 

 Chiriquij Bugaba i^, Chitra^^, Calovevora ^'^, Calobre ^^ (^rce), Panama Eailway 

 {M'Leannan ^ ^ ^ij. — Colombia ; Venezuela ^^. 



This is by far the commonest species of Ciccaba in our country, occurring in the 

 whole of the forest area, except perhaps in the higher mountains and in Western 

 Mexico, where its place is taken by the closely allied C. squamulata. In Mexico it 

 reaches as far north as the hills above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, and thence 

 extends throughout the State of Vera Cruz to the eastern side of the Isthmus of 



