746 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Bangs Collection: El General de Terraba (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Boruca (Carriker). Four skins. 



Mr. Underwood was the first collector to add this Panaman thrush to 

 the Costa Rican ornis, taking it at Boruca in April, 1906. It is rather 

 peculiar that Mr. Cherrie did not take it there in 1 890-1, but he probably 

 mistook the song for that of C. melpomene, which it greatly resembles, and 

 since they are so exceedingly shy, he did not bother to search for them. 

 I found them fairly common in the second-growth scrub around Boruca but 

 very rare at Buenos Aires. They were singing a great deal still (in July), 

 and it was only by hearing the song that the birds could ever be located, 

 and even then not more than one bird out of six would be secured, so wary 

 were they. 



525. Catharus melpomene costaricensis Hellmayr. 



Catharus melpomene (not Turdus melpomene Cabanis) Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 

 i860, 322 (Costa Rica [Frantzius. Hoffmann, and Ellendorf]). — Baird, Rev. 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 7 (San Jose). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 90 

 (Quebrada Honda [Frantzius], San Jose [J. Carmiol], Grecia [F. Carmiol]). 

 — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 289 (over the whole table-land of San 

 Jose; breeds in April). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 50 (San Jose and Car- 

 tago; habits and song). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 I, 1879, 2, part (Volcan de Irazii). — Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., V, 

 1881, 288 (no Costa Rican records). — Cherrie, Auk, VIII, 1891, 272 (San 

 Jose; habits, breeding, song); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 517 (San 

 Jose; critical). 



Catharus melpomene costaricensis Hellmayr, Jour, fur Orn., 1902, 45 (Costa 

 Rica; coll. von Berlepsch). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 

 1907, 31 (lower slopes of the mountains of Costa Rica: Grecia, San Jose, 

 Cartago, Navarro, Quebrada Honda, Monte Redondo). 



Bangs Collection: Escazu, Carrillo, Azahar de Cartago (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection: San Vicente. 



Carnegie Museum: Juan Vinas and Tierra Blanca (Carriker) ; San Pedro 



de San Jose (Underwood). Three skins. 



This thrush is found over the whole of the lower plateau region, but does 

 not go below about 3,000 feet on the eastern side and probably to about 

 2,000 on the Pacific slope. It is abundant in the valleys of San Jose and 

 Cartago, but more especially on the San Jose side of the divide. The birds 

 are very shy and retiring and are rarely seen by the ordinary observer, but 

 always make their presence known by their sweet song at the beginning 

 of the breeding season. Mr. Cherrie has given a very complete account 

 of the habits and breeding of this bird, to which I can add nothing (Auk, 

 1891, 272). 



