654 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Carnegie Museum : La Hondura, Carrillo, Juan Vinas, El Hogar 

 (Carriker). Cariblanco de Sarapiqui and Carrillo (Underwood). 

 Thirty-seven skins. 



This is an abundant species throughout its range, which covers the 

 whole of the Caribbean slope from 1,000 feet up to about 5,000 feet, 

 the higher portions of the Dota Mountains, and both sides of the main 

 Cordillera in northwestern Costa Rica. It is found in abundance 

 wherever there is sufficient rainfall to keep the forest damp and 

 cool, not occurring in the greater part of the plateau region and 

 Pacific slope, which have for six months a dry season. It is a 

 typical Xiphorhynchus in its habits, climbing up the tree-trunks and 

 limbs in the spiral manner common to the family, and after arriving 

 at a height of fifty to sixty feet flying off to the foot of another tree, 

 where the same operation is repeated. 



394. Xiphorhynchus lacrymosus eximius (Hellmayr). 



Dendrornis lacrymosa Lawrence, Ann, Lye. N. Y., VII, 1862, 467 (Panama). 



— Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 114 (Pacuare and Las Tiojas). 



— Sciater, Cat. Bhds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 133, part (no Costa Rican 

 specimens). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1891, 182, 

 part (Costa Rican references). — Elliot, Auk, VII, 1890, 181 (Costa Rica). 



— Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 440 (Miravalles). 



Dendrornis lacrymosa eximia Hellmayr, Jour, fur Ornith., 1903, 537 and 538 

 (Costa Rica and Veragua). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 299 (El Pozo de 

 Terraba). 



Dendrornis = Xiphorhynchus Oberholser, Smithsonian Miscel. Coll., vol. 48, 

 1905. 59- 

 U. S. Nat. Museum : Bonilla (Zeledon), Reventazon (Carranza), 



Pozo Azul de Pirris ( ?). 



Bangs Collection: Pozo Azul de Pirris, La Vijagua (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 



Field Museum : El Pozo de Terraba (Carriker). 



Carnegie Museum : Cuabre, Rio Sicsola, El Hogar, Pozo Azul de 



Pirris (Carriker) ; Reventazon (Underwood). Eight skins. 



Sparingly distributed over the entire Caribbean lowlands from sea- 

 level up to about 1,000 feet, and in the Pacific lowlands from the Rio 

 Grande de Pirris southwards. I found it to be more abundant in the 

 Sicsola Valley than at any other point visited, but it was by no means 

 common there. I once saw a pair of them on the Rio Sicsola, chat- 

 tering most excitedly and taking turns at pecking at something in a 

 knot-hole on the side of a tree-trunk, about forty feet from the 



