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This species has nearly the same range as the following, except that it 

 seems to be entirely absent from the coast and lower slopes of the Pacific 

 side; neither does it go up so high in the interior as T. cana cana. It is 

 a much less common bird, and is not always to be found in localities where 

 it would naturally be expected to exist. Its habits and habitat are also 

 practically the same as those of the succeeding species, except that it is 

 inclined to be rather more retiring. 



682. Thraupis cana cana (Swainson). 



Tanagra cana Swainson, Ornith. Drawings (Birds of Brazil), part III, 1834, 

 pi. 37 (no locality). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 54 (San Jose). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 277 (Costa Rican references). — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 156, part (Irazu dist. [Rogers]. 

 Tucurriqui and Bebedero [Arce], Puntarenas [Salvin]). — Zeledon, An. Mus. 

 Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 109 (Alajuela, San Jose, Cartago, Santa Maria de Dota). 

 — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 25 (San Jose); Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 

 1893, 19 (Boruca and Buenos Aires). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 435 (Mira- 

 valles). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 55 (southern Mexico 

 to western Ecuador). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 309 (Boruca [Underwood]). 



Tanagra diaconus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 171 (San Jose). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 99 (San Jose and Angostura [J. 

 Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869 (Costa Rica). 



Tanagra cana diaconus Ridgway and Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 391 (La Palma de Nicoya). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 499 

 (San Jose). 



Thraupis diaconus Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn., i860, 330 (Costa Rica [Frantzius, 

 Hoffmann, Ellendorf]). 



Thraupis Boie, Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 1908, 644, footnote 

 (critical). 



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



(Basulto), Pigres (Ridgway), San Jose (Cherrie). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo, Buenos Aires, Bolson, San Jose, Jimenez 



(Underwood). 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia: Miravalles and Bebedero (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Juan Vinas, Tierra Blanca, San Jose, Guapiles, El 



Hogar, Esparta, Boruca (Carriker), nine skins; San Pedro and San 



Jose (Underwood), three skins. 



One of the most abundant birds found in Costa Rica, covering the 

 whole of the plateau region up to about 7,000 feet, the Caribbean slope 

 (where cleared lands are found) down to at least 600 feet, and the whole 

 of the Pacific slope and lowlands. 



