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this point in this direction it has not been traced. It also occurs in the State of 

 Antioquia, where Salmon met with it both at Neche and Eemedios \ The only notes 

 we have on its habits were supplied to Lawrence by Galbraith, who states that it is not 

 often met with on the Isthmus of Panama, that it is found on high trees, and that the 

 iris in life is brown 2. The species was figured by Mr. Sclater 2 and by Messrs. Marshall ^, 

 but the latter give no additional information respecting it. Captain Shelley ^ places 

 C. maculicoronatus in the same section as C. auratus and its allies ; but it has little 

 in common with them, being a very isolated form. 



2. Capito salvini. 



Capito bourcieri, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 130 fnec Lafr.) ' ; v. Frantz. J. f . Orn. 1869, p. 363 ' ; 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 212°; Marshall, Mon. Capit. p. 165 (partim) *; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 47° J Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Eica, 1887, p. 123'. 

 Capito hartlaubi, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 130 (nee Lafr.)'; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 363 '. 

 Capito salvini, Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 119'. 



Supra viridis, capite toto et gutture coccineis, loris et mento nigris, macula cervicis utrinque glauco-albida : 

 subtus abdomine toto olivaoeo-flavo ad pectus coccineo lavato, hypochondriis distincte olivaoeo flammu- 

 latis ; rostro flavido ; pedibus nigricantibus. Long, tota circa 6'8, alae 2-7, caudae 1*8, rostri a rictu 0"85, 

 tarsi O'S. 

 $ capite sumnio et cervicis lateribus viridibus aureo lavatis, fronte nigra, superciliis et genis glauoo-cseruleis, 

 gutture viridi-flavo, pectore aurantio a mari differt. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Costa Eica. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Costa Eica {v. i^r«wfoms ^ ^), Barranca {Carmiol^'^), Turrialba (Cooper 2), Orosi, 

 Navarro [Boucard^), Naranjo de Cartago, Birris de Cartago, Jimenez [Zeledon^)', 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui [ArcS ^). 



This Capito is very nearly allied to, if really distinct from, 0. bourcieri of the more 

 southern parts of Colombia and Ecuador. The only distinction is to be found in the 

 female, which has no bluish-grey colour bordering the black band of the forehead on 

 the inside. This difference occurs in all the Central- American specimens we have 

 examined, but was not noticed until Captain Shelley wrote his catalogue of the birds 

 of this family ^. 



We have no notes concerning this bird, but Salmon says of the allied C. bourcieri 

 that its food is fruit. 



The range of C. salvini seems restricted to Costa Rica and the western portion of the 

 State of Panama. Most of the collectors who have worked in the former country have 

 met with it, and Arce sent us specimens from Chiriqui ^. On the Isthmus of Panama 

 itself it appears to be absent, and in the State of Antioquia the closely allied C. bourcieri 

 takes its place. Concerning the latter bird, as observed by him at Nanegal and 

 Pallatanga in Ecuador, Eraser says that he found in one bird that the gizzard 

 contained green fruit and minute seeds, and that the bare skin round the eye was 

 yellowish ; and again that in another the iris in life was red, the bill greenish-yellow, 

 the legs and feet green, and that the gizzard contained fruit and remains of insects. 

 A solitary bird, living in high trees and rather stupid *. 



