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bean, from sea-level up to about 2,000 feet, but more common below 

 1,000 feet. Frantzius gives the bird from the Dota Mountains, which 

 record I am much inclined to doubt. There are no other references to 

 the bird from the Pacific slope, and it is probable that an error was made 

 with respect to the locality given on the label. This is the only Costa 

 Rican species of the genus which lives entirely in the thick forest, only 

 rarely being seen along the edges of the jungle. It keeps rather low down 

 in the smaller trees and is more frequently met with in places where large 

 trees are scattering, permitting a thick growth of low jungle. It does 

 not associate in flocks so much as the other species of the genus, being 

 very often met with singly or in pairs. 



693. Euphonia crassirostris Sclater. 



Euphonia laniirostris Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 

 262, part (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 

 1 886, 76, part (Costa Rican references). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., 

 I, 1887, 109 (Costa Rica). 



Phonasca laniirostris Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., i860, 331; 1861, 90 (Costa Rica). 



Euphonia crassirostris Sclater, P. Z. S., 1856, 277 (Santa Marta, Colombia; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 54 (Cartago). — Ridgway, 

 Birds N. and Mid. Amer., II, i9<-2, 28 (Costa Rica to western Ecuador; — 

 Costa Rica : Angostura and Cartago). 



Bangs Collection: Coralillo, one female (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Boruca, one female (Carriker). 



This is one of the rarest of the Costa Rican Euphonice, Costa Rica 

 being to the north of the true range of the bird. It is a common bird in 

 Panama, but in Costa Rica occurs in such small numbers that it is 

 difficult to define its range. There is one record from the Caribbean 

 slope at 2,000 feet, another from Cartago, near the continental divide, 

 and three records from widely separated regions on the Pacific lowlands 

 at altitudes varying from near sea-level to 2,000 feet. The specimen 

 taken at Boruca was in company with E. luteicapilla, feeding on the berries 

 of a variety of misletoe. 



694. Euphonia hirundinacea gnatho (Cabanis). 



Euphonia hirundinacea Bonaparte, P. Z. S., 1837, 117 (Guatemala). 



Euphonia hirundinacea (not of Bonaparte) Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1865, 172 (Turrialba [Carmiol], San Juan [Frantzius]). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 98 (Turrialba [Carmiol], San Juan [Frantzius]). — 

 Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 297 (San Jose). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 261 (Costa Rican references).— Sclater, 



