Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 823 



Bangs Collection: El General and r P6zo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Pozo Azul de Pirris, Miravalles, El Hogar, Boruca 



(Carriker). Eleven skins. 



This species is rare in Costa Rica on the Caribbean slope and lowlands, 

 but very abundant over the whole extent of the Pacific region, from sea- 

 level up to about 3,000 feet, some even going higher. The only record 

 I have for the Caribbean lowlands is the two specimens which were col- 

 lected at El Hogar. Like all the honey-creepers, this one is found in 

 flocks, often associating with the preceding species, the habits of which 

 are about the same. 



635. Chlorophanes spiza exsul Berlepsch. 



Chlorophanes guatemalensis (not of Sclater) Salvadori, Atti. Ac. Roy. Torino, 

 IV, 1868, 172 (Costa Rica). 



Chlorophanes spiza var. guatemalensis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. 

 Y., IX, 1868, 97 (Tuis and Turrialba [J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur 

 Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 54 (Juan Vinas). 



Chlorophanes spiza guatemalensis (not Chlorophanes guatemalensis Sclater) Cher- 

 rie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 17 (Boruca). — Ridgway, Birds N. 

 and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 383 (eastern Guatemala to Isthmus of Panama). 

 — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, 1906, in. 



Chlorophanes spiza Underwood, Ibis, 1896,435 (Miravalles). — SALViNand God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 247, part (Costa Rican references). 



[Chlorophanes spiza] a. Subspecies guatemalensis (not of Sclater, 1861) Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 30 (Turrialba [Arce]). 



Chlorophanes spiza exsul Berlepsch, P. Z. S., 1883, 543 (Chimbo, Ecuador; 

 coll. Count von Berlepsch). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, 1906, in, 

 in text (Costa Rica); Auk, XXIV, 1907, 306 (Boruca and Paso Real [Under- 

 wood]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Basulto), Bonilla (Ridgway, Zeledon, 



and Alfaro). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo, Pozo Azul de Pirris, La Vijagua, El General 



(Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 Carnegie Museum: Pozo Azul de Pirris, Carrillo (Carriker). Sixteen 



skins. 



Although, as Mr. Bangs has said, Costa Rican specimens of Chlorophanes 

 spiza are intermediate between guatemalensis and exsul (Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., XIX, 1906, in), it seems to me after a close comparison that they 

 are nearer to the southern form, exsul, and should all be called that, al- 

 though only the birds from the Terraba Valley are typical exsul. How- 



