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Pygmornis adolphi Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 67 (San Carlos). — Cherrie, Expl. 

 Zool. en C. R., 1890-1 (Lagarto, Boruca and Buenos Aires de Tcrraba). — ■ 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 282 (Costa Rica [Endres]). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1892, 319 (Talamanca 

 [Zeledon]). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 45 (Lagarto, 

 Boruca, Buenos Aires). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 442 (Miravalles). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Jimenez (Verrill), Pozo del Pital (Cherrie). 



Bangs Collection : Carrillo and Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 



Carnegie Museum: Guapiles and Volcan de Turrialba (2,000 ft.) 



(Carriker & Crawford) ; Guapiles, Miravalles, Rio Sicsola, El Pozo 



de Terraba, El Hogar (Carriker). Ten skins. 



This tiny little woodland species is distributed over the whole of the 

 Caribbean and Pacific lowlands up to about 2,000 feet. It keeps near 

 the ground, feeding upon all kinds of small flowers in season, besides 

 the "Wild Plantains." 



232. Eutoxeres aquila heterura Gould. 



Eutoxeres heterura Gould, Ann. & Mag. N. H., I, 1868, 455. 



Eutoxeres aquila Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., I X, 1868, 120 (Tucurriqui [Arce]) 



— Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 120 (C. R.). 

 Eutoxeres salvini Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 262 (Turrialba 



[Arce]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1892, 314 (Costa 



Rica). 

 Eutoxeres aquila heterura Taczanowski & Berlepsch, P. Z. S., 1885, 132. — 



Hartert, Tierr., 1900, 29 (Costa Rica to Ecuador). 



Bangs Collection : Carrillo (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum : Volcan de Turrialba, 2,000 ft. (Carriker & Craw- 

 ford). Nine skins. 



The Costa Rican range of this species is restricted (so far as I am 

 able to determine) to the Caribbean watershed from about 1,200 to 

 3,500 feet in altitude, but it is most abundant at about 2,000 feet, in 

 the dense, humid forests of that elevation. I found it feeding abun- 

 dantly on the flowers of a species of " Wild Plantain " which blooms 

 nearly the whole year round in the locality visited. Other collectors 

 have found it in small numbers at Carrillo, while I saw a single bird 

 on the mountain side above Juan Vinas. 



233. Campylopterus hemileucurus mellitus Bangs. 



Trochilus hemileucurus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vbg., 1. 

 Campylopterus hemileucurus Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein., Ill, 13. — Caba- 



