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more nearly true intermediates than any others, for it is here that the two 

 races actually come together. This bird occupies about the same alti- 

 tudinal range on the Caribbean as does dyscola on the Pacific, while its 

 habits and habitat are identical. 



480. Myiozetetes granadensis Lawrence. 



_ Myiozetetes granadensis Lawrence, Ibis, 1862, 11 (Lion Hill, Panama); Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 112 (Orosi, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn.; 

 1869, 307 (Orosi). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 116 (Rio 

 Sucio). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 163 (no Costa Rican 

 specimens). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1889, 42 

 (Costa Rican references). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1890-1, 1893, 33 

 (Palmar. Boruca, Lagarto, Buenos Aires). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. 

 Amer., IV, 1907, 450 (Honduras to E. Peru; — Costa Rica: Navarro, Sipurio, 

 Orosi, Jimenez, and Pigres). 



Bangs Collection: El General de Terraba, Carrillo, Jimenez, Reventazon, 



Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford); Pozo Azul de 



Pirris, El Pozo, Boruca, and Buenos Aires de Terraba (Carriker). Seven 



skins. 



This Myiozetetes is usually found in company with M. texensis, though 

 it is never so abundant as that species, and unlike it is not found in the 

 highlands, being restricted to the lowlands of both the Caribbean and the 

 Pacific from sea-level up to about 1,500 feet. Its habits are about the 

 same, although it usually seems to be more retiring and less pugnacious 

 than texensis. All the species of Myiozetetes eat a great deal of fruit and 

 berries whenever they are in season, and are always to be seen in the same 

 trees feeding with cotingas and several species of tanagers. At other 

 times their food consists of various insects, usually caught on the wing. 



I took the nest and eggs of this bird at both Guapiles and on the Rio 

 Sicsola. It is precisely like the nest of M. texensis, that is, elbow-shaped, 

 made of grass, weed-stalks, and roots, lined with very fine dry grass, 

 and placed in an upright crotch of a tree or on a broken snag projecting 

 from the river. The two nests taken were about ten inches long and five 

 inches in diameter at the larger end. 



The eggs are creamy-white, speckled, spotted, and blotched with cin- 

 namon-rufous or purplish umber-brown, more heavily about the larger 

 end. Each nest contained three eggs, that from Guapiles having been 

 taken July 16, the other from Rio Sicsola on March 8, both with 

 incubation begun. It is very probable that like our common Kingbird, 



