Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 431 



Carnegie Museum : El P6zo de Terraba (Carriker). One skin. 



Found sparingly all over the country up to aoout 4,000 feet, more 

 abundant in the lowlands, especially of the Pacific. I found it in the 

 swamps just inside of the beach about twelve miles south of Port 

 Limon. 



97. Agamia agami (Gmelin). 



Ardea agami Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 629. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1901, 171. 

 Agamia picta Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 131 (Pozo Azul de 



Pirris). 

 Agamia agami Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, 135 (no C. R. 



record). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Laguna de Ochomogo. 



Carnegie Museum : Pozo Azul de Pirris (Carriker). One skin. 



This beautiful heron is evidently extremely rare in Costa Rica. 

 We have but one published record of its collection, the specimen 

 from Pozo Azul, recorded by Senor Zeledon. Mr. Cherrie tells me 

 that he also took a specimen at Pozo Azul, while the only one I saw 

 during my residence of five years was in the same locality. Mr. 

 Lankester records one from Laguna de Ochomogo, between San Jose 

 and Cartago, which seems to be a very unusual occurrence for this 

 species. The one which I secured was shot in the shallow margin of 

 the Rio Grande de Pirris. 



98. Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Boddaert). 



Ardea ncevia Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 56. 



Nycticorax nycticorax Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, 146. 



Nycticorax grisens navius Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 406 (La 



Palma de Nicoya). 

 Nycticorax nycticorax n&vius Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 131. 



(Liberia). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893,528 (Rio Frio). 

 Nycticorax americanus Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn. , 1869, 376 (C. R. ). 



Bangs Collection : San Jose (Underwood). 



A winter resident over the greater part of the country up to 4,000 

 feet, but probably commoner in the lowlands of the Pacific. I saw 

 hem in November on the Matina River near its mouth. 



99. Cochlearius zeledoni (Ridgway). 



Cancroma zeledoni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 93. — Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. C. R., I, 1887, 130 (Pozo Azul de Pirris and Las Trojas). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, 165. — Salvin and Godman, 



