Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 859 



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The bird is found over the whole of the Caribbean lowlands of the north- 

 ern half of the country, and may also be present in the southern part, but 

 there are no records for that section. Being a northern race I would 

 suppose that it did not extend below Limon. It has been taken from 

 near sea-level up to nearly 5,000 feet, but is most abundant between 500 

 and 2,000 feet. 



684. Tangara larvata fanny (Lafresnaye). 



Aglaia fanny ~Lafrrsnaye, Rev. Zool., 1847, 72 (Colombia; coll. Lafresnaye). 

 Calliste larvata (not of Du Bus) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 



I, 1883, 274, part (Costa Rican references). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XI, 1886, 124, part. — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 109 



part (Trojas de Puntarenas and Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. 



en C. R., 1891-2, 1893 (Boruca, Terraba, Buenos Aires). 

 Calospiza larvata fanny Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, 1902, 49, part 



(southern Honduras to northern Colombia). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 



308 (Boruca and Paso Real de Terraba [Underwood]). 

 Tangara Brisson, Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 1908, 644, footnote 



(critical). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Pigres (Zeledon), Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 

 Bangs Collection: Pozo Azul de Pirris, Buenos Aires, and El General de 



Terraba (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Pozo Azul de Pirris, Boruca, and Buenos Aires (Car- 

 riker), five skins; Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood), twelve skins. 

 This bird may be easily distinguished from the eastern form by the 

 characters given by Mr. Ridgway for the subspecies, i. e., slightly smaller 

 size, colors of head and sides paler, and greenish edgings to remiges, rec- 

 trices, and outer wing-coverts less distinct, sometimes wanting. 



It is confined to the Pacific lowlands and foot-hills, and has thus far 

 been taken only in the southwestern portion, from the Gulf of Nicoya 

 southward; in fact there is no record that I can find for the taking of either 

 form of larvata in Guanacaste or Nicoya. It is an abundant bird in the 

 vicinity of Pozo Azul de Pirris and throughout the Terraba Valley, as- 

 sociates in small flocks almost continually when not breeding, and is com- 

 mon in the outskirts of the Indian villages and around the edges of the 

 savannas, in company with either T. gyroloides or the Enphonice, or both. 



685. Tangara dowii (Salvin). 



Calliste dowii Salvin, P. Z. S., 1863, 168 (Rancho Redondo de Irazu, Costa 

 Rica [J. M. Dow]; coll. Salvin and Godman?). — Sclater, Ibis, 1863, 451, 

 pi. 12 (San Jose, Costa Rica [Frantzius]). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 



