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bird. He further says that it is finch-like in its habits, continually flitting 

 about from branch to branch. 



731. Pezopetes capitalis Cabanis. 



Pezopetes capitalis Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., Nov., i860, 415 (Costa Rica; Berlin 

 Mus.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 101 (Costa Rica). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 254 (Volcan de Cartago [Arce], Irazti district 

 [Rogers]). — Ridgway, Birds of North and Mid. Am., I, 1901, 472 (highlands 

 of Costa Rica [Volcan de Cartago, Volcan de Irazu] and Chiriqui [Volcan 

 de Chiriqui]). 



Buarremon capitalis Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 55 (Volcan de 

 Irazu). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de C. R., 1882, 8; An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 

 1887, no (Volcan de Irazu). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 I, 1884, 322, pi. XXIII, fig. 1 (Irazu [Arce, Rogers, and Boucard]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Volcan de Turrialba, Volcan de Irazu (Ridgway and 

 Zeledon), Las Vueltas de Dota (Basulto), Irazu (Cherrie) (Cherrie and 

 Castro). 

 Bangs Collection: Volcan de Irazu, Azahar de Cartago, Cachi (Under- 

 wood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Poas, Irazu, and Turrialba. 

 Carnegie Museum: Volcan de Irazii, Volcan de Turrialba, Ujurras de 

 Terraba (Carriker). Nine skins. 



"Two birds in juvenal plumage are darker above, the feather-tips black, 

 producing a barred effect; crown black, with an indistinct median line 

 of olive-green; beneath buffy-olive, heavily streaked with black, the 

 streaks confluent on the chin. Maxilla dark (in dried skins) ; mandible 

 paler. Iris of adult hazel. The two September specimens are notice- 

 ably browner (less olivaceous) than the rest of the series, but this is doubt- 

 less due to their fresher plumage." (W. E. C. Todd.) 



This bird inhabits only the higher peaks and mountain ranges and is 

 not, as a rule, seen below 7,000 feet, while it is most abundant at 8,000 to 

 9,000 feet. All Costan Rica references for the species are from Volcan de 

 Irazu, but it has been found by several collectors on Turrialba, by Under- 

 wood in the Candelaria Mountains, while I found it abundant in the high 

 ranges of southern Costa Rica. 



They are almost invariably seen in couples, hopping about on the ground 

 or scratching most industriously among the leaves in the forest or under 

 the bamboo clumps so abundant at high altitudes. According to my ob- 

 servations on Irazu, the breeding begins from the 1st to the 10th of April. 

 Four nests were found, one on the 10th, containing one egg partially in- 



