Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 585 



Carnegie Museum : Juan Vifias and Ujurras de Terraba (Carriker). 



Three skins. 



This species is confined principally to the highlands, descending 

 occasionally as low as 1,500 feet, and going up to at least 6,000 feet. 

 The zone of its greatest abundance lies between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. 

 It is found in the heavy forest, but is also very fond of wooded pastures, 

 becoming very common on the eastern portion of the plateau region, 

 especially from Turrialba up to Santiago. 



318. Melanerpes formicivorus striatipectus Ridgway. 



Melanerpes form icivor us Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1862, 322 (Irazu [Hoffmann]). 

 — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 131 (San Jose and Barranca [Car- 

 miol], Dota and Birris [Zeledon]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 364 

 (Grecia, Potrero, Cervante?). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 49 (Volcan de 

 Irazu, — seen at Juan Vifias). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , V, 1882, 

 497 (Irazu [Nutting]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 

 (Cartago, Monte Redondo, Barranca, Zarcero de Alajuela, La Palma de San 

 Jose). — Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 149 part (Dota 

 [Carmiol], San Jose [Frantzius], Volcan de Irazu [Arce]). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, If, 1895, 412, part (Mexico to Panama). 



Melanerpes formicivorus, var. striatipectus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, North Am. Birds, II, 1875, 561 (south of Orizaba, Mexico). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Monte Redondo and Coliblanco (Ridway), El 



Zarcero (Zeledon), Volcan de Irazu (Cooper), El Copey, LaLagu- 



naria and Santa Maria de Dota (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection : Escazu, Azahar de Cartago, Volcan de Irazu 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Musemum : Volcan de Irazu (Carriker) ; Escazu and La 



Estrella de Cartago (Underwood). Seven skins. 



This woodpecker has been taken in a great many localities scattered 

 about over the highlands and mountains of Costa Rica, but from my 

 own experience I find that it is much commoner on the Volcan de 

 Irazu than in any other locality. When I went to the Volcan de Tur- 

 rialba I fully expected to find the bird there, but to my surprise not a 

 single bird was seen in nearly two weeks collecting, neither did Messrs. 

 Ridgway, Zeledon, or Lankester find it there. I questioned the 

 peons on the " hacienda ' ' where I was stopping, concerning the matter, 

 describing the bird to them, but none had ever seen it, although two 

 men who had worked on Irazu knew the bird there, but said they had 

 never seen it on Turrialba. It is a very unusual case of distribution, 



