Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 577 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Cachi. 



Carnegie Museum : Juan Vifias, La Hondura (Carriker) ; Tobosi 



(Francisco Cooper Ulloa). Thirteen skins. 



This handsome little toucan, the smallest in Costa Rica, is confined 

 to the higher portions of the country, ranging over the whole of the 

 plateau region down to about 2,500 feet on the Caribbean slope and 

 perhaps a little lower on the Pacific, and up to at least 6,000 feet in 

 the mountains. It is found in the heavy forest as well as in the open 

 woodland, scattered trees, and roadside scrub. They are usually seen 

 in small flocks of from four to eight, are quite tame, and, like all the 

 toucans, very stupid. 



They breed in holes in trees, usually abandoned nests of Campepliilus 

 guatemalensis buxans or even of Chloronerpes yucatanensis. I have 

 not seen the eggs, but nests examined at Juan Vifias in May each con- 

 tained two young. 



Family GALBULID^E. 



310. Galbula melanogenia Sclater. 



Galbula melanogenia Sclater, Contr. Otn., 1852, 61, pi. 90. — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 118 (Pacuare and San Carlos [J. Carmiol], Tur- 

 rialba [Cooper]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 311 (Pacuare, Tur- 

 rialba and San Carlos). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 47 (San Carlos). — ■ 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 400 (La Palma de Nicoya). — ■ 

 Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 119 (Jimenez, Las Trojas, San 

 Mateo, Pozo Azul de Pirris, and Pacuare). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 

 1890-1, 48 (Palmar, Boruca, Lagarto, and Buenos Aires). — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 166 (Bebedero [Arce], Angostura [Carmiol]). 

 — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, II, 1896, 506 (Bebedero 

 [Underwood], Mexico to western Ecuador). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 

 293 (Boruca, Paso Real and El Pozo de Terraba [Underwood]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Bonilla (Ridgway) (Basulto). 



Bangs Collection : El General, Pozo Azul de Pirris, Bolson and Car- 



rillo (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford) ; Guacimo, Pozo 



Azul de Pirris, Juan Vifias, Carrillo, El Hogar, El Pozo de Terraba, 



Buenos Aires (Carriker). Seventeen skins. 



This beautiful little jacamar is found in all portions of Costa Rica 

 below 2,000 feet, occasionally getting up to 3,000 feet on the Carib- 

 bean slope, but not usually seen above 1,500 feet on the Pacific slope. 

 It frequents the heavy forest almost exclusively, although often seen 



