664 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Bangs Collection : Juan Vifias, Pozo Azul de Pirris, and Bolson 



(Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Palo Verde. 

 Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford) ; Guapiles, 



Bebedero and El Pozo de Terraba (Carriker). Five skins. 



This is a much rarer bird in Costa Rica than Tityra semifasciata 

 costaricensis, although it occupies about the same range as that species, 

 and when found is usually in company with it. I secured these two 

 species with Carpodectes nitidus at Guapiles, all feeding together in 

 the same tree. Like Carpodectes, it is a silent bird and does not have 

 the peculiar rasping, grunt-like note peculiar to Tityra. It is a fruit- 

 eating bird, but also eats insects. 



407. Platypsaris aglaiae latirostris (Bonaparte). 



Pachyrhamphus latirostris Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXVIII, 1854, 658 

 (Nicaragua [Delattre]). 



Hadrostomus aglaice (not Pachyrhamphus aglaice Lafresnaye) Cabanis, Jour. 

 fur Orn., 1861, 252 (Lepanto, Costa Rica [Ellendorf]). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 116 (reference to record of Cabanis). — Frantzius, 

 Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 309 (Costa Rica; reference to Cabanis' record). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1890, 121, part. 



Platypsaris latirostris Ridgway, Man. N. A. Birds, 1887, 325 (Costa Rica and 

 Nicaragua); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 468, 469, 471, in text (La 

 Palma de Nicoya). 



Platypsaris aglaice latirostris Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 468, 

 in text (Nicaragua); XVI, 1893, 612 (La Palma de Nicoya); Birds N. and 

 Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 855 (Pacific slope of Central America ; in Costa Rica: 

 La Palma de Nicoya; Nicaragua, Salvador, and probably into Guatemala). 



Hadrostomus homochrous (?) Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 397 

 (La Palma de Nicoya). 



Bangs Collection : Bolson, several skins, Dec, 1907 (Underwood). 



There are probably fewer specimens from Costa Rica of this form of 



Platypsaris than of the preceding, the only ones in the U. S. Nat. 



Museum being taken by Nutting at La Palma de Nicoya. Mr. Bangs 



has several adults of both sexes taken at Bolson by Underwood in 1907. 



Mr. Ridgway has placed the Cabanis record of Hadrostomus aglaice 



under P. a. hypophceus, but the bird recorded by Cabanis was collected 



at Lepanto, which is on the western coast of the Gulf of Nicoya. 



408. Platypsaris aglaiae hypophaeus Ridgway. 



Hadrostomus aglaice (not Pachyrhamphus aglaice Lafresnaye). — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 335, part (no Costa Rican specimens). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1890, 121, part (no Costa 

 Rican record for hypophceus). 



