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foreigners at San Jose. They prefer wet grassy tracts of the rice- fields, 

 most of the birds at Turrucares being seen in the latter places. 



46. Creciscus albigularis (Lawrence). 



Corethura albigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., VII, 1861, 302 (Panama). 

 Porzana albigularis Sclater and SALVIN, Exotic Orn., 1868, 109 (Barranca, 



Costa Rica, one specimen [Arce]). 

 Creciscus albigularis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII, 1894, 140 (from 



Colombia to Costa Ric?. and Nicaragua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 



Ara., Aves, III, 1903, 324. 

 Porzana alfari Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, III (Las Trojas 



[Alfaro]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 131. 

 Creciscus alfara Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII, 1894, 141, note. 



Mr. Bangs, while recently in Washington, carefully examined the 

 type of Porzana alfari, and informs me that it is a slightly immature 

 specimen of C. albigularis and not of C. drier eiceps as placed by Mr. 

 Richmond in his synonymy of that species (Auk, XII, 1895, 19). 

 In addition to this specimen we have the bird taken at Barranca by 

 Arce, cited in " Exotic Ornithology." There are no records for C. 

 cinereiceps from the Pacific coast, probably only this species occurring 

 there in very small numbers. 



47. Creciscus cinereiceps (Lawrence). 



Porzana cinereiceps Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., XI, 1875, 90 

 (Talamanca [Gabb]). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, XVI, 1893, 

 528 (Rio Frio). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 131 

 (Pacuare). 



Creciscus cinereiceps Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII, 1894, 141, note 

 and p. 337. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 325 

 (Pacuarito, Desamparados, Jimenez, Reventazon, Sipurio, Juan Vinas, Azahar 

 de Cartago, Carrillo [Underwood in lilt.~\) . 



Crecisctts albigularis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIII, 1894, 140, part. — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 324, part. (Las 

 Trojas [Alfaro]). 



Porzana albigularis Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 131. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1868, 109 (Barranca [Arce]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Juan Vinas (Underwood), Reventazon (Car- 

 ran za). 



Bangs Collection: Carrillo, Cariblanco, Juan Vinas (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Cachi. 



Carnegie Museum : Guapiles, Juan Vinas, Bonilla, Carrillo (Carriker). 

 Four skins. 



