406 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The range of the present species covers the coastal plain of the 

 Caribbean from Panama to Nicaragua, but it is probably never found 

 above 800 or 1,000 feet. In Talamanca, as well as at El Hogar, other 

 birds were seen besides the ones secured, and always on the ground in 

 the thick, dark forest in some wet spot, either along the edges of a 

 small sluggish creek or about a boggy spring. It would seem that 

 they feed upon small slugs and larvae which are found in wet places. 

 When flushed they will fly for fifty or a hundred feet and again alight 

 on the ground. Two pairs were seen at El Hogar besides the ones 

 secured. 



39. Geotrygon lawrencei Salvin. 



Geotrygon veraguensis Salvin (nee Lawr. ), P. Z. S., 1867, 159 (Santiago de 

 Veraguas). 



Geotrygon lawrencii Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 329 (Veragua). — Salvadori, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 576 (Veragua). — Salvin and Godman, Bio- 

 logia Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1902, 266 (Panama). — Carriker, Ann. Car- 

 negie Museum, Vol. IV, 1908, 302 (Carrillo). 



Bangs Collection: Cariblanco, Aug., 1899, and Tenorio, Jan., 1908 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Carrillo, Aug. 20, 1905, c? (Carriker). 



This is perhaps one of the rarest of the Costa Rican pigeons, but is 

 also very rare throughout the whole of its range. The four birds re- 

 corded above are the only ones I know of having been taken in the 

 country. Its habits are apparently similar to those of G. costaricensis, 

 to which it is most nearly related. 



40. Geotrygon costaricensis Lawrence. 



Geotrygon costaricensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 136 (Frantzius). 

 — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 371 (Las Cruces de Candelaria). — 

 Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 43 (La Candelaria). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882 (Irazii). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882,502 

 (San Jose (?)). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C, R., I, 1887, 127 (Rancho 

 Redondo). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 577 (Cande- 

 laria). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 111, 1902, 267 

 (Azahar de Cartago, Estrella de Cartago, Turrialba, Carrillo [Underwood 

 in litt. ] ) . 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Burgos (Castro), La Estrella and Volcan de 



Turrialba. 

 Bangs Collection: Cachi, Irazu, Escazu (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 Carnegie Museum : Cordillera de Talamanca (7,000 feet) (Carriker). 



One male. 



