786 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Univ. of Nebraska: Volcan de Irazu, February, 1902 (Carriker). 

 Bangs Collection: San Pedro, May 4-18, 1892, 2 cf's- 9 (Zeledon). 



The only published record for the taking of the Cedar Waxwing in Costa 

 Rica is that by Mr. Cherrie (cited above). In addition to the specimen 

 taken by him, Mr. Ridgway secured two at Guayabo. Mr. Bangs has 

 three taken by Zeledon at San Pedro, while I secured another high up on 

 the Volcan de Irazu. It is evidently only a rare straggler so far to the 

 south, for were it a regular winter visitor, it would have attracted the 

 attention of native collectors. 



They are usually to be seen in small flocks of from four to a dozen, and 



are fond of frequenting the scattered trees of the pastures as well as the 



forest. 



575. Phainoptila melanoxantha Salvin. 



Phainoptila melanoxantha Salvin, P. Z. S., 1877, 367 (San Francisco, Costa 

 Rica [Rogers]; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 53 

 (Navarro and Rancho Redondo, several). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 221, pi. 14 (San Francisco de Irazu [Rogers]). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 219 (Irazu district). — Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 107 (La Palma de San Jose, Rancho Redondo). 

 — Alfaro, Gaceta Of. no. 288, 1888 (Volcan de Poas). — Ridgway, Birds 

 N. and Mid. Amer., Ill, 1904, 124 (highlands of Costa Rica and Chiriqui). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Volcan de Turrialba (Ridgway and Zeledon), San 



Juan de Irazu (Ridgway), La Estrella de Cartago and Burgos de Irazu 



(Castro). 

 Bangs Collection: Volcan de Irazu, Escazii, and Azahar de Cartago 



(Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum Collection: Volcan de Irazu, Volcan de Turrialba, 



Ujurras de Terraba, La Hondura (Carriker). Ten skins. 



This species has about the same range as Ptilogo?iys candatus, being 

 distributed over the higher mountains of the whole of Costa Rica, from 

 about 5,000 feet upwards to timber-line on the volcanoes. I found it fairly 

 common at La Hondura, on the northern slope of Irazu at about 5,000 

 feet. Some of the species inhabiting the high altitudes descend much 

 lower on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Volcanoes Irazu and 

 Turrialba than they do anywhere else in the country, the slope being so 

 abrupt there, that the temperature remains cool at a much lower altitude 

 than where foothills or table-lands intervene. It is also abundant on 

 the Volcan de Turrialba, while I secured a single specimen at Ujurras de 

 Terraba, in the Cordilleras de Talamanca at about 7,000 feet. The nidi- 

 fication of this species is also unknown. 



