578 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



along the edges of clearings, or in bits of thick jungle where there 

 are no large trees. It is also often seen along the banks of small 

 creeks in the forest. It has a rather weak call, rather pleasant to the 

 ear, which it utters while perched on a branch, accompanying it with 

 a violent jerking of the tail and upward tilt of the bill. It is 

 always seen in pairs. 



310. Jacamerops aurea (P. L. S. Miiller). 



Alcedo aurea Muller, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, 94. 



Jacamerops grandis Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 119 (Jimenez). 



— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 176 (no C. R. specimens). 

 Jacameras aurea Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 508 



(Costa Rica to Peru and Guiana). 



Bangs Collection : Carrillo, cj' and ? (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection: El Hogar, c? and 9. 



Carnegie Museum: Rio Sicsola, 6^; El Hogar, 9 (Carriker). 



A very rare bird in Costa Rica, of which there are probably not 

 more than eight or ten specimens in existence, taken in Costa Rica. 

 Its habits are quite similar to those of Galbula melanogenia, with the 

 exception that this bird keeps entirely in the heavy forest, usually in 

 low damp places. I saw but the one male secured, during a resi- 

 dence of nearly a year in the Talamanca district. At El Hogar it is 

 evidently more numerous, for there Mr. Lankester secured a male and 

 two females, one of which he gave me. On one occasion I saw there 

 a pair in the forest when I was without a gun, but could not find them 

 when I returned the following day to the same place. They are very 

 tame, or rather stupid, not seeming to know what fear is, for I re- 

 peatedly approached very near, throwing sticks in a vain endeavor 

 to knock them down, and even when flushed in this manner they only 

 flew a short distance and permitted me to repeat the performance. 



Family BUCCONIDyE. 



312. Bucco dysoni Sclater. 



Bucco dysoni Sclater, P. Z. S., 1855, 193 (Honduras). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 401 (La Palma de Nicoya). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. 

 de C. R., I, 1887, 120 (Pacuare and Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 182 (no C. R. specimens). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 511 (Mexico to Upper Amazons, 



— no C. R. specimens). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 293 (Paso Real de 

 Terraba, $ and 9 [Underwood]). 



