662 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia: Reventazon (Underwood). 



Bangs Collection: Reventazon (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 



Carnegie Museum Collection : Guacimo (Carriker & Crawford) ; 



Guacimo, El Hogar (Carriker). Fifteen specimens. 



This cotinga is confined to the Caribbean lowlands and foot-hills, 

 up to not more than 1,500 feet. It is most abundant in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Guacimo, El Hogar, and Jimenez, where I secured a 

 fine series of specimens and saw many others. It frequents the tangled 

 jungle peculiar to this immediate locality, where the trees are mostly 

 low and overgrown with vines, with an occasional tall tree growing 

 above the jungle. It is in these scattered tall trees that the birds are 

 mostly found, and are usually seen in small flocks of from five to ten, 

 there being usually more females than males. They have a peculiar 

 soft, liquid, musical note, very difficult to describe, which sounds a 

 great deal like the cooing of a dove, only much sweeter and clearer. 

 Were it not for a curious habit which they have it would be rather 

 difficult to collect many in that region. If a bird is wounded and held 

 in the hand it will scream loudly and harshly, quite a different note 

 from the usual call note, and the remainder of the flock, hearing this 

 note, will swoop down at the person holding the wounded bird, just as 

 terns do, and alight very near, so that usually all the birds of the 

 flock can be secured. If this trick is not resorted to, after one bird is 

 shot, the others quickly fly away for some distance and pursuit is im- 

 possible on account of the nature of the jungle. 



405. Tityra semifasciata costaricensis Ridgway. 



Native name " Pajaro Chancho." 



Tityra personata Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 252 (Costa Rica [Frantzius and 

 Hoffmann]). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., I X, 1868, 116 (San Jose [Frant- 

 zius], Guaitil, and Barranca [J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 

 309 (Santa Ana and Pacaca). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 65 (Orosi). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 397 (La Palma de Nicoya). — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 500 (San Jose [Nutting]). — 

 Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 118 (Navarro, Pozo Azul de Pirris, 

 Naranjo de Cartago, Monte Redondo, Rio Sucio, Alajuela, Jimenez, Las 

 Trojas, Cartago). — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 322 (San Jose; note on nest 

 and eggs); Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1890-1, 1893, 36 (Lagarto, Boruca, Terraba, 

 and Buenos Aires). — Alfaro, Paginas Illustradas, I, 1904, 564 (Costa Rica; 

 habits, descr. of nest and eggs). 



Tityra semifasciata Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 330 (Cachi 



