Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 743 



Ibis, 1905, 1-24. pis. 1 and 2 (on systematic position). — Ridgway, Birds 

 N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 71 (high mountain peaks of Chiriqui and Costa 

 Rica: Volcan de Poas and Volcan de Irazu). — Bangs, Proc. N. Eng. Zool. 

 Club, IV, 1908, 28 (Volcan de Irazu [Underwood]; large series of specimens). 

 Zeledonia insperata Cherrie (MS. name) Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., 

 IV, 1907, 72 (footnote). — Bangs, Proc. N. Eng. Zool. Club, IV, 1908, 28, 

 in text (crit.). 



Fleming Collection: Escazu and Volcan de Irazu (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Volcan de Irazu, La Hondura, Ujurras de Terraba, 



and Volcan de Turrialba (Carriker). Six skins. 



Found wherever there are heavy, humid forests above an altitude of 

 5,000 feet, but it is most abundant on the higher peaks, at an elevation of 

 from 8,000 to 10,000 feet. (For description of habits, song, etc., see in- 

 troduction, page 332.) 



519. Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens). 



T urdus fusees cens Stephens, Gen. Zool., X, i, 1817, 182 (based on Turdus mus- 

 telinus Wilson, not of Gmelin). — (?) Cherrie, Auk, VII, 1890, 337 (San 

 Jose, Costa Rica, Oct. 14, 1889). 

 Hylocichla fuscescens Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 166. 

 Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 

 64 (eastern North American, wintering in Cuba and coast of Yucatan and 

 from Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia, Guiana, and Brazil; — Costa 

 Rica: San Jose, October). 

 Carnegie Museum: Rio Sicsola, Oct. 10, 1904 (Carriker). One skin. 



This is probably the rarest of the thrushes wintering in Costa Rica, 

 there being but one other record known, besides that of the 9 taken by 

 myself, in the lowlands of Talamanca. 



520. Hylocichla aliciae aliciae (Baird). 



Turdus alicice Baird, Birds N. Amer., 1858, 217. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y.. 



IX, 1868, 91 (San Jose [Frantzius]). — Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 1864, 21 



(San Jose [Frantzius]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 289 (Costa Rica). 



— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1879, 12 (Costa Rican 



references). 

 Hylocichla alicice. Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1869, 127, in text; 



Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 59 (eastern and northern North America, 



south in winter to West Indies, lower Central America, and northern South 



America; — Costa Rica: San Jose, etc.). 



Fleming Collection: Azahar de Cartago (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum: Rio Sicsola, Oct. 7, 1904 (Carriker). One skin. 



Evidently very rare in Costa Rica, but few records being known. It 

 is also found in both the lowlands and the highlands. 



