436 ICTEEID2E. 



1. Eucorystes wagleri. 



Cacicus wagleri, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 343, t. 85 ' ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 72 \ 



Ocyalus wagleri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 328 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 19 * ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 353 ' ; 



1870, p. 836%- 1879, p. 508, t. 43. f. 3'; Moore, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 57^ Cass. Pr, Ac. 



Phil. 1860, p. 138 ' ; Cah. J. f. Om. 1861, p. 9 " ; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 141 " ; 1873, p. 317 " ; 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 143 "j 1870, p. 190"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 397 '' j ix. p. 104'°; 



Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 303 " ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 553 " j Nutting, 



Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 393 ". 

 Eucorystes wagleri, Scl. Ibis, 1883, p. 147 " ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 312". 



Saturate brunneo-castaneus, crista vertioali elongata ejusdem coloris ; interscapulio, alis extus, abdomine medio 

 et subalaribus cbalybeo-nigris ; cauda flava, rectricibus utrinque extimis in pogonio externo et duabus 

 mediis omnino, nigricantibus ; rostro flavicante-fusco-griseo, pedibus nigris. Long, tofca 14-0, alae 8"1, 

 caudas 5-2 (rectr. med. 4-8), rostri a rictu 2-2, tarsi 1*5. 



5 mari similis, sed multo minor, interscapulio et abdomine medio magis oastaneis. Long, tota 10'5, alse 5'6, 

 caudae 3-8 (rectr. med. 3-6), rostri a rictu 1-6, tarsi 1-2. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Choctum, Guate- 

 mala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hai. Mexico [SalU^), Cerra de la Defensa {Sumichrast ^^) ; Guatemala, Cahabon 

 (Skinner"^), Lanquin (0. S. n), Choctum ((9. S. & F. D. G. 21) ; Hondueas, Chilomo 

 {Leyland% San Pedro {Gr. M. Whitely^); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt^^); Costa 

 EicA (i;. Frantzius ^^ '^'^), San Jose, Turrialba, San Carlos (Carmiol ^^), La Palma 

 {Nutting ^^), Tucurriqui {Arce^^); Panama, Chitra i^ Calobre ", Santa Fe^s 

 {ArcS), line of railway {M'Leannan ^ ^^), Truando, Nercua {Wood ^). — Colombia^ ; 

 Westeen Ecuadoe. 



Eucorystes wagleri is one of the most characteristic species of a large portion of the 

 hot forest-region of Southern Mexico and Central America, and thence southwards to 

 Western Ecuador 21, and as far as Piura ^i, within the confines of Western Peru, close 

 to the limit of the forest-region of that part of the coast. It lives in colonies, often 

 numbering several hundred individuals ; these frequent some large isolated tree often 

 by a road-side or near a village in some clearing. The upper branches of a tree thus 

 situated are densely hung with their curious closely-woven purse-like nests, which are 

 suspended to the ends of the boughs. Whether the nests are occupied all the year 

 round we are not able to say, but the birds certainly frequent them when incubation 

 and the rearing the young is not in progress. A pine-tree near Lanquin, in Guatemala, 

 was observed by Salvin, in March 1860, to be hung with nests about which the birds were 

 busying themselves. In hopes of finding some eggs he had the tree cut down, but the 

 nests were empty ^^. Mr. Nutting speaks of a large colony frequenting a dead tree on 

 the road from Punta Arenas to San Jose in Costa Eica ; he observed the birds to get 

 inside their nests and shake them violently, so as to produce a rattling sound. He 

 was unable to ascertain the object of this curious performance ^^. 



Salmon obtained eggs of this species at Pocune, in the valley of the Cauca, Colombia. 

 They are pale greenish white with sepia spots of various sizes '^. 



Eeverting to the range of this species it must be remarked that though common in 



