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menstSf as given by almost all authors on Costa Rican birds. Law- 

 rence recorded the species from Costa Rica in 1868, but had the 

 range confused, as well as confusing several supposed species with it. 

 The southern range of the bird in all probability ends in north- 

 eastern Chiriqui, but it is an abundant species over the whole of the 

 Caribbean lowlands, from the San Juan River to the Sicsola. Its 

 habits are the same as those of M. panamensis. 



315. Monasa grandior Sclater and Salvin. 



Monasa peruana Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 118 (San Carlos and 

 Pacuare [Cooper]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 312 (San Carlos and 

 Pacuare). 



Monasa grandior Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S., 1868, 327 (Angostura [CarmiolJ). 

 — Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 315 (crit.). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 

 1887, 120 (Rio Sucio and Jimenez). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, II, 1896, 520 (Nicaragua and Costa Rica). 



Monacha grandior Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 205 (Angos- 

 tura and San Carlos [Carmiol]). 



Bangs Collection : Jimenez and La Vijagua (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Banana River. 



Carnegie Museum : Guacimo (Carriker & Crawford); Cuabre, Gua- 



piles, El Hogar (Carriker). Twelve skins. 



This singular bird, easily recognized by the bright salmon-red bill, 

 is found only on the Caribbean slope of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and 

 northern Chiriqui. I have taken it in Costa Rica at numerous points 

 along the eastern lowlands, but never above 1,200 feet, although it 

 does go up some of the larger river-valleys a little higher, as at Angos- 

 tura (about 1,800 feet) whence came the type. It is found only in 

 the forest, but does not seek out the dark secluded spots, as does Jaca- 

 merops, but prefers the edges of clearings, or little open spots in the 

 forest caused by the falling of a large tree. It is always seen in pairs, 

 and is very tame and easily approached. It has a note rather sim- 

 ilar to Galbula melanogeuia, and also jerks its tail when calling. 



Family PICID^E. 



Key to the Costa Rican Species. 



o. Size large (wing not less than 175 mm.); breast and abdomen barred with black 

 and buff; an elongated scarlet crest; chest black. 

 b. A buff-ochraceous stripe from nostril to shoulder. 



c. Bill pale horn or ivory-white; inner wing-coverts distinctly yellowish. 

 d. Forehead and malar region scarlet. 



Ceophloeus lineaius scapularis, $ . 



