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It is usually found in thick shrubbery along river banks or beside creeks 

 in the open woodland. 



459. Myiophobus fasciatus furfurosus (Thayer and Bangs). 



Myiophobus ncevius furfurosus Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



XLVI, 1905, 152 (Saboga Island, Bay of Panama; coll. E. A. amd O. Bangs). 

 Myiophobus fasciatus furfurosus Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 



543 (Panama). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., IV, 1908, 302 (Buenos 



Aires de Terraba, Costa Rica [Carriker]). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 



XXII, 1909, 33 (El Genera' de Terraba [Underwood]). 



Bangs Collection: El General de Terraba, 9 juv. (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Buenos Aires de Terraba, one adult d\ Sept. 2, 1907. 

 The specimen collected at Buenos Aires, Sept. 2, 1907, is the first record 

 for this Panaman species in Costa Rica. Underwood took a nestling at 

 El General de Terraba the following year. It appears to be only a very 

 rare straggler in the extreme southwestern portion of the country. 



460. Myiochanes brachytarsus (Sclater). 



Empidonax brachytarsus Sclater. Ibis, 1859, 441 (Cordova, Mexico). 



Contopus brachytarsus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 240 (no 

 C. R. specimens). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1889, 

 87 (no Costa Rican reference). — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 251 (San Jose, 

 Aug. 27 and Oct. 2, a rare bird in Costa Rica). 



Myiochanes brachytarsus Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 526 

 (southeastern Mexico, southward through Central and South America to 

 Argentina. — Costa Rica: San Jose, Rio Frio, Bebedero, Cariblanco de 

 Sarapiqui). 



Bangs Collection: CaiiManco de Sarapiqui; Aug. 2-10; Bolson, Dec. 17 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles, March 10-28 (three specimens) (Carriker 



& Crawford); Miravalles, May 23; Esparta, June 4; Buenos Aires 



de Terraba, Aug. 28 (Carriker). Six skins. 



This species is also very rare in Costa Rica, but is distributed over the 

 whole lowland region and some parts of the central plateau, at least up to 

 4,000 feet. It is found in open woodland, hedge-rows, and isolated clumps 

 of trees. 



461. Myiochanes richardsoni sordidulus (Sclater). 



Contopus sordidulus Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, 43 (southern Mexico and Guate- 

 mala; type locality not specified). 



Myiochanes richardsonii sordiduhis Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 

 1907, 525 (southern Mexico to Panama. — Costa Rica: Coliblanco, Cedral 



