580 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Bangs Collection : El General de Terraba (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Abangares. 



Carnegie Museum : Pozo Azul de Pirris, El Pozo de Terraba, Boruca, 



Miravalles (Carriker). Eight skins. 



The Panaman Malacoptila is found only on the Pacific slope and low- 

 lands of Costa Rica, where it is found in large numbers in the southern 

 part, gradually diminishing northward, until in Guanacaste (northern 

 part) it is not so abundant. They are found from sea-level up to 

 nearly, if not quite, 3,000 feet, but are most abundant below 1,000 

 feet. The birds occur only in the forest, preferring the thick 

 jungle, where there are many vines and much tangled undergrowth. 

 They seldom perch higher than twenty-five feet above the earth, usually 

 much lower, and are the most stupid birds imaginable, permitting a 

 person to approach to within a few feet of them before flying. 



314. Malacoptila inornata (Du Bus). 



Monasa inornata Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Brux., XIV, pt. 2, 1847, p. 107. 



Malacoptila inornata Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., XIII, 1854, 478; Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 197 (Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., IX, 1868, 118, part (Angostura [Cooper]).- — Frantzius, Jour, fur 

 Orn., 1869, 312, part (Pacuare and Angostura). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 517 (Costa Rica not included in its range; 

 Greytown, Nicaragua, southernmost record). 



Malacoptila panamensis (not of Lafresnaye) Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 47 (San 

 Carlos). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 119, part (Jimenez 

 and Angostura). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 

 516, part (Costa Rican references). 



Malacoptila verce-pacis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 118 part (Pacu- 

 are [J. Carmiol]). 



Malacoptila costaricensis Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1862, 172, part (Costa Rica). 

 — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 312, part (Angostura and Pacuare). 



Malacoptila panamensis var. costaricensis Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XIX, 1891, 196, part (Tucurriqui [Arce], Peje [Carmiol]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon). 



Bangs Collection : Carrillo and La Vijagua (Underwood). 



Fleming Collection : Reventazon (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection: La Crestina (= Jimenez). 



Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford), Rio Sicsola, 



El Hogar, Guacimo, Carrillo, Cuabre (Carriker). Fifteen skins. 



All specimens of Malacoptila which I have examined from the Car- 

 ibbean slope of Costa Rica prove to be M. inornata and not pana- 



