Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 5G7 



Morococcyx erylhropygus Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1892, 422 (Costa 

 Rica [J. Catniiol]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 

 538 (Mexico to Costa Rica). 



Bangs Collection : San Jose, Miravalles, Tenorio and Cerro de Santa 



Maria (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Miravalles, Esparta (Carriker). Three skins. 



Northwestern Costa Rica is the southernmost limit of the range of 

 this cuckoo, whence it extends northward into Mexico. In Costa 

 Rica it has been found only on the Pacific slope from the Rio Grande 

 de Tarcoles northward, and is most abundant in Guanacaste. I saw 

 several birds in a rice-field at Nuestra Amo, west of San Jose, which 

 acted quite like rails in their manner of flushing and quickly dropping 

 back into the rice again, after which no amount of threshing around 

 in the field would flush them again. 



299. Tapera naevia (Linnaeus). 



Cuculus navius Linn/EUS, Syst. Nat., cd. 12, I, 1766, 170. 



Diplopterns nczvius Boie, Isis, 1826, 977. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 

 1868, 128 (Guaitil [J. Carmiol], San Mateo [Cooper]). — Frantzius, Jour, 

 fur Orn., 1869, 361 (San Mateo). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 

 1887, 123 (Pozo Azul de Pirns, San Mateo). — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 

 326 (San Jose, — a rare straggler). — Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI X, 

 1 89 1. 423 (San Mateo [Cooper], La Barranca [Arce]). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 540 (Mexico to S. A.). 



Tapera Thunberg, 1819. (Authority Dr. C. W. Richmond.) 



U. S. Nat. Museum : San Lucas, Alajuela (Alfaro), Bebedero (Under- 

 wood ) . 

 Bangs Collection : Bolson, Bebedero, and Volcan de Poas (Under- 

 wood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Turrucares. 



Confined to the Pacific slope and western side of the central plateau 

 region, being taken in rare instances as high as 4,000 feet. It 

 is commonest, however, around the shores of the Gulf of Nicoya, 

 especially on the Nicoya side, but is nowhere an abundant bird. It is 

 found almost entirely in scrubby woodland, keeping near the ground, 

 as do the other members of the group found in this region. 



The species covers a great range, and a thorough investigation as to 

 the advisability of separating some of the distinctive forms is required. 

 Such material is very hard to get together and has not been available 

 for my use, therefore I have made no attempt to place the Costa Rican 



