730 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



I found the birds in the virgin forest, always near some little creek, 

 where the trees were rather low and open, letting in the sun. I should 

 probably never have seen them had it not been for their peculiar note, 

 for they perch up in the trees at a considerable height. Their call con- 

 sists of a single thin, piercing note, with a slight rasping quality, and re- 

 peated with a very short interval between each note. They sit very 

 quietly when calling, not moving in the least and are almost impossible 

 to see from the ground on account of their exceedingly small size. I heard 

 others calling at different times, but I was never able to find them on ac- 

 count of their having quit calling before I reached the spot. At Barmouth, 

 near the mouth of the Matina river, I also heard one, but could not find it. 



Its range seems to be confined to the Caribbean lowlands, extending 

 the whole length of the country, from sea-level up to i,oooor 1,200 feet, 

 wherever heavy forest is present. 



501. Lophotriccus squamaecristatus minor Cherrie. 



Euscarthmus squamicristatus (not Todirostrum squamaecristatus Lafresnaye) 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 11 1 (Cervantes [J. Carmiol], Dota 

 [Zeledon], Greeia [F. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn. 1869, 307 

 (Quebrada Honda). - — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 62 (Juan Vifias). — Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 116 (Naranjo de Cartago, Turrialba, Cer- 

 vantes, Dota). 



Lophotriccus squamicristatus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 87, 

 ■part (Dota [Zeledon], Turrialba, and Tucurriqui [Arce]). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1888, 16, part (Costa Rica to Venezuela). 



Lophotriccus squamicristatus minor Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 

 337 (Greeia [J. Carmiol]). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 

 371 (Greeia, Cervantes, Dota, Quebrada Honda, Naranjo, Turrialba, Tucur- 

 riqui, Bonilla, Juan Vifias, San Carlos, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), La Lagunaria, 



and El Copey de Dota (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo, La Vijagua, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui, Juan 



Vifias, El General, Cerro de Santa Maria (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 Carnegie Museum: Volcan de Turrialba, 2,000 feet (Carriker & Craw- 

 ford); La Hondura, Juan Vifias (Carriker). Six skins. 

 This beautiful little crested species has rather a wide range in Costa 

 Rica, being found in almost every part of the country between the alti- 

 tudes of 1,500 and 4,000 feet, a few stragglers sometimes being found a 

 little lower or higher. I found it more abundant in the hills above Juan 

 Vifias, near Capalladas, than in any other locality visited. Underwood 



