844 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



their presence known. In spite of .their noisy manner, they are very hard 

 to collect, having a way of slipping about in the underbrush and keeping 

 out of sight which is very exasperating to the collector. 



663. Eucometis spodocephala spodocephala (Bonaparte). 



Chlorospingus spodocephala Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXIX, 1854, 922 

 (Nicaragua; coll. Delattre). 



Eucometis spodocephala Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 84 (Nicaragua); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 219, part (Nicoya, Costa Rica [Arce]). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 100 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Jour, 

 fur Orn., 1869, 299 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, I, 1883, 307 (Costa Rican references: Tempate [Arce]). — Zeledon, 

 An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, no (Las Trojas de Puntarenas). — Under- 

 wood, Ibis, 1896, 435 (Bebedero to Miravalles). — Ridgway, Birds N. and 

 Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 139 (Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Las Trojas, Tempate, 

 Nicoya, Volcan de Miravalles). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Bebedero (Underwood). 



Bangs Collection: Miravalles, Tenorio, Bolson (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum: Bagaces, Miravalles (Carriker). Four skins. 



After a very careful examination of a large series of skins of Eucometis 

 spodocephala from different parts of Costa Rica, Mr. Bangs and myself 

 decided that all birds taken north of the Rio Grande de Pirris (Pozo Azul) 

 were referable to true spodocephala, some of them being exactly typical 

 of northern birds, while others were slightly intermediate with a tendency 

 towards the streaking of the breast as in the southern race, E. spodocephala 

 stictothorax. 



This species is confined strictly to the Pacific coast region in Costa Rica, 

 ranging from near sea-level up to at least 2,000 feet. They seem to have 

 no preference between the heavy forest and the more open woodland 

 and second-growth scrub, being found equally abundantly in all places. 

 They are inclined to be noisy, but not nearly so much as Mitrospingus 

 cassini or Phcenicothraupis, nor do they associate in flocks so much as 

 those birds, solitary individuals being very often encountered. 



664. Eucometis spodocephala stictothorax Berlepsch. 



Eucometis spodocephala (not Chlorospingus spodocephala Bonaparte) Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, part (no Costa Rican refer- 

 ences or specimens applying to this form). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XI, 1886, 219, part (no C. R. specimens).— Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R. 

 1891-2, 1893, 25 (Boruca, Terraba, and Buenos Aires). 



Eucometis spodocephala stictothorax Berlepsch, Auk, V, 1888, 451, 452 (Chiri- 



