Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 405 



Cartago). — Sai.vadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893,567. — Under- 

 wood, Ibis, 1896, 447 (Miravalles). — Bangs, Auk, 1907, 292 (Boruca and 

 El Pozo [Underwood]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 

 265 (Sabanilla de Pirris [Underwood in //'//.]). 



Bangs Collection : Pozo Azul, Buenos Aires, Tenorio, El General and 



Cerro de Santa Maria (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : El Pozo de Terraba and Boruca (Carriker). Two 



females. 



There seems to be no appreciable difference between birds from 

 Costa Rica, Colombia, and British Honduras. The range of this 

 species covers the whole of the central highlands (not above 4,000 

 feet) and the entire Pacific coast belt down to a point near sea-level, 

 wherever there are dense primeval forests. I have never seen it, nor 

 are there any records for it, on the Caribbean lowlands, that is below 

 2,000 feet. The lowest point seems to be Angostura on the Reven- 

 tazon River. 



It inhabits only the dense forest, keeping on or near the ground, 

 and when alighting above the earth always chooses a low limb or vine. 

 They are often to be seen walking about on the ground like par- 

 tridges. I found a nest at El Pozo late in June, which contained one 

 young bird, nearly fledged. The nest was a rude platform of twigs 

 and leaves, placed in a small palm in the thick forest, two feet from 

 the ground. The female left the nest on my approach, fluttering along 

 the ground with dragging wings, acting to perfection the part of a 

 crippled bird, in order to lure me away from her nest. 



38. Geotrygon veraguensis Lawrence. 



Geotrygon veraguensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., VIII, 349 (Veragua [J. K. 



Merritt]). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 575 (Panama 



and Veragua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 



267. 

 Geotrygon rufiventris Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., XI, 1874, 90 (Talamanca 



[Cooper-Gabb Exped.]). 



Bangs Collection : Reventazon, itf (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum : Cuabre cT, and El Hogar cT & 9 (Carriker). 



Lawrence's type of this species was undoubtedly a female, as stated 

 by Salvin and Godman (Biologia), although there is little difference 

 between the sexes, except in the color of the forehead and cheeks. A 

 male from Talamanca (Cuabra) is exactly the same as a male from 

 northeastern Costa Rica (El Hogar). 



