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U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), Turrialba (Ridg- 



way) . 

 Bangs Collection: Jimenez, Carrillo, Miravalles (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford), La Hondura 



(Carriker). Four skins. 



This species is most abundant in the lowlands of the Caribbean, being 

 regularly found from sea-level up to 2,000 feet, and stragglers and small 

 colonies as high as 4,000 feet. It is found also in the Pacific lowlands up 

 to at least 2,000 feet. Its habits, habitat, and manner of nesting are 

 practically the same as for the succeeding species, except that the nest 

 is shorter and thicker than in Zarhynchus. 



652. Zarhynchus wagleri wagleri (Gray). 



Cacicus wagleri Gray, Gen. Birds, II, 1847, 342 (no locality given for type), 



pi. 84. 

 Ocyalus wagleri Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 9 (Costa Rica). — Lawrence, 



Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 104 (San Jose, Turrialba, and San Carlos [J. Car- 



miol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 302 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, 



P. Z. S., 1878, 58 (Orosi, Juan Vinas, and San Carlos). — Nutting, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 393 (between San Jose and Puntarenas). 

 Eucorystes wagleri Sclater, Ibis, 1883, 147, part (monogr.; Costa Rica); Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 312, part (Tucurriqui [Arce]). — Salvin and 



Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1886, 436, part (Costa Rican references). 



—Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 112 (Alajuela and Cartago). 



— Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 249 (San Jose; descr. of young). — Richmond, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, 493 (Rio Frio). 

 Zarhynchus wagleri Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 215. 

 Zarhynchus wagleri wagleri Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 176 



(Nicaragua to western Ecuador). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: San Jose and Bonilla (Ridgway and Zeledon), 



Guayabo and Santo Domingo de San Mateo (Ridgway), Turrialba 



(Zeledon). 

 Bangs Collection: Monte Redondo, Carrillo, Juan Vinas (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Pozo Aziil de Pirris and Juan Vinas (Carriker). Four 



skins. 

 (Underwood in litt.) : Tres Rios, Tambor, Pacuarito, San Bernardo. 



This oropendola is confined to the highlands, and is found on both the 

 Caribbean and Pacific slopes from about 2,000 feet upwards to 4,000 feet. 

 They are found lower on the Pacific slope than on the Caribbean, and even 

 on the eastern side occasionally straggle down to about 1,000 feet. They 

 are found in the forest as well as in the cultivated regions where trees are 



