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the Caribbean at 3,000 to 4,000 feet), nor is it taken above 1,500 

 feet. Its habits are more like those of D. ridgwayi than anabatina 

 saturata. 



389. Dendrocincla ridgwayi ridgwayi Oberholser. 



Dendrocincla olivacea Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., VII, 1862, 466 (Panama). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 492 (Talamanca, Cartago, Pac- 

 uare). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 166 (Angostura [Car- 

 miol]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II. 1891, 174, part 

 (Costa Rican references). 



Dendromanes atrirostris Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 319 (Costa Rica [J. Carmiol]). 



Dendrocincla atrirostris Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 114 (Cartago 

 and Pacuare). 



Dendrocincla olivacea olivacea Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 

 456 (Costa Rica). 



Dendrocincla ridgwayi Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 458 

 (Talamanca, Costa Rica [Jose Zeledon, 1873]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Underwood), Reventazon (Carranza), 



Pacuare (Zeledon). 

 Bangs Collection : Carrillo and La Vijagua (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 

 Carnegie Museum: Cuabre, Rio Sicsola, El Hogar (Carriker). Seven 



skins. 



The name of Dendrocincla ridgwayi which this species now bears is 

 made necessary from the fact that D. olivacea Lawrence is preoccupied 

 (authority of Dr. Richmond). Mr. Oberholser described a slightly 

 aberrant specimen of the species under the name of D. ridgwayi, and 

 as a consequence his name becomes applicable in place of D. olivacea, 

 preoccupied. 



The species ranges over the whole of the Caribbean lowlands (speci- 

 mens from the Chiriqui Lagoon to Nicaragua), from near sea-level up 

 to at least 2,000 feet. A single bird was taken at Cartago by Cooper, 

 but this seems to be very unusual, since there are no other records 

 from above 2,000 feet. The bird occurs only in the heavy virgin 

 forest, where it is invariably found near the ground, being especially 

 fond of creeping about on the large elevated roots so common in tropical 

 forests. I have occasionally seen it as high up as twenty-five feet, 

 but rarely. It is very quiet, and if it has a call I have never heard it. 



390. Sittasomus sylvioides Lafresnaye. 



Sittasomus olivacens (not of Wied) Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 

 133 (Dota and Monte Redondo). 



