770 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



553. Heleodytes zonatus costaricensis (Berlepsch). 



Campylorhynchus zonatus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 92 (Turrialba 

 and Cervantes [J. Carmiol], Tucurriqui [Zeledon]). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1880, 68, part (Costa Rican localities and refer- 

 ences). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, 195, part (Pacuare 

 [Carmiol]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 105 (Jimenez, 

 Turrialba, Cartago, and Naranjo de Cartago). 



Campylorhynchus zonatus costaricensis Berlepsch, Auk, V, 1888, 450 (Costa 

 Rica; coll. Count von Berlepsch). 



Heleodytes zonatus costaricensis Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., Ill, 1904, 

 512 (highlands of Costa Rica: " Parita," Turrialba, Cervantes, Tucurriqui, 

 Angostura, Cartago, Naranjo de Cartago, Jimenez). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Bonilla (Ridgway and Zeledon), Coliblanco (Ridg- 

 way), Jimenez (Alfaro) (Verrill) (Carranza), Guayabal (Underwood). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection: Cariblanco de Sarapiqui and Guacimo. 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford), El Hogar (Car- 

 riker). Eleven skins. 



This Heleodytes is confined strictly to the Caribbean watershed, from 

 about the middle of the country northward, and from about 600 feet to 

 4,000 feet elevation. It seems to be most abundant from about 800 to 

 1,000 feet in the Santa Clara Valley, where it is found in the trees scattered 

 about in the pastures and cultivated lands, also in the more open parts 

 of the forest and along the edges of the streams. 



The birds are usually seen in pairs or small bands and like the following 

 species are very noisy, chattering incessantly as they clamber about among 

 the branches or up and down the trunks of the trees. 



Boucard records this species from San Mateo (Pacific slope, 1,800 feet) 

 but I am certain he refers to the succeeding form, H. c. capistratus, which 

 is an abundant bird in that vicinity, while I have never heard of H. zonatus 

 costaricensis being taken on the western slope, and I have accordingly 

 placed his reference (P. Z. S. 1878, 51) under the species from the western 

 coast. 



554. Heleodytes capistratus capistratus (Lesson). 



Picolaptes capistratus Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1842, 174 (Realejo, Nicaragua). 



Campylorhynchus capistratus Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, 1864, 104 (Puntarenas, 

 Costa Rica [J. M. Dow]). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 92 (San 

 Mateo [Cooper].). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869 (Costa Rica). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1880, 64 (Costa Rican refer- 

 ences). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, 191 (no Costa Rican speci- 

 mens). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 389 (La Palma de Nicoya). 



