736 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Family OXYRUNCID/E. 

 508. Oxyruncus cristatus f rater (Sclater and Salvin). 



Oxyrhynchus flammiceps (not of Temminck) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 



1868, 106 (San Jose [Frantzius!) . — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 304 



(Orosi). 

 Oxyrhamphus frater Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S., 1868, 326 (Calovevora, 



Panama); Exotic Ornith., pt. IX, pi. 66 (2 figs.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XIV, 1888, 281 (Costa Rica [Carmiol]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1888, 2 (Costa Rican references). 

 Oxyruncus cristatus frater Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 334 



(Panama and Costa Rica: San Carlos, Bonilla, Buena Vista, Orosi, San Jose). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Santa Maria de Dota (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection: San Carlos, La Vijagua (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 



This is a very rare bird in Costa Rica, and not enough specimens have 

 been taken to satisfactorily determine its range. With the exception of 

 the one record from San Jose and the one from the Dota Mountains, all 

 specimens have been taken on the Caribbean watershed from 1 ,000 feet 

 up to 3,000 feet. Since it is a bird found only in the humid forests I judge, 

 that it is very rare on the Pacific slope, or wanting, except in the Dota 

 Mountains and the Cerro de Santa Maria, where conditions are very simi- 

 lar to those on the Caribbean watershed. 



Family MIMID^. 

 509. Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus). 



Muscicapa, carolinensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 328 (Virginia; 



based on the Catbird, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, I, 66, pi. 66). 

 Galeoscoptes carolinensis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, 1850, 82. — Ridgway, Birds 



N. and Middle Amer., IV, 1907, 218 (temperate North America in general, 



southward in winter through southern U. S., the Lesser Antilles, eastern 



Mexico and Central America to Panama). 

 Dumetella S. D. W., A. O. U. Comm., Auk, XXV, 1908, 385. 



C. H. Lankester Collection: Guacimo, January, 1905, and Sept. 11, 1905. 

 I am not able to find any published record of the taking of the Catbird 

 in Costa Rica. The first record of which I have any knowledge is the 

 taking of two specimens by myself at Cauita, on the Caribbean coast, 

 Feb. 15, 1904. Both were males. These skins were lost, together with 

 all others collected at that point. The only other specimen taken was 

 the one recorded above as taken by Mr. Lankester at Guacimo. I saw 

 several birds at El Hogar during the winter of 1906-7, but did not shoot 



