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Domingo de San Mateo northward around the head of the Gulf of Nicoya, 

 and thence covering the Nicoya peninsula and Guanacaste north to Nica- 

 ragua. I found it abundant at Esparta, Bebedero, and on the lower 

 slopes of the Volcan de Miravalles. A nest was taken at Esparta, June 5, 

 1907. The nest and eggs are very similar to those of Arremonops coni- 

 rostris richmondi. The nest was placed on the ground on a hillside in the 

 open woodland, and was dome-shaped, made of bamboo blades, weed- 

 stalks, and roots, and lined with fine fibres. Its diameter outside was 

 about five inches, inside two and one-half inches. The two eggs are dull 

 white, unspotted, and measure: 24 X 16.5 and 24 X 16 mm. 



741. Melozone leucotis Cabanis. 



Melozone leucotis Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., VIII, i860, 413 (Costa Rica [Hoff- 

 mann and Frantzius], Berlin Mus.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 

 103 (San Jose, Angostura, Guaitil [J. Carmiol], San Juan [Frantzius]). — 

 Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 302 (Guaitil and Angostura). — Ridgway, 

 Birds of North and Mid. Amer., I, 1901,444 (highlands of Costa Rica: San 

 Jose, Angostura, Guaitil, San Juan, Cartago, etc.). 

 Melozone leucote Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 169 (Angostura [Car- 

 miol]). 

 Pyrgisoma leucote, Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 120 (Costa Rica). — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 326, part (Costa Rica); Exotic 

 Orn., 1868, 128, part (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 

 56 (San Jose and Cartago). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 I, 1886, 403 (previous references cited). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., 

 I, 1887, 112 (Cartago, San Jose, Guaitil). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XII, 1888, 736 (Irazu district [Rogers]). 

 Pyrgisoma leucotis Zeledon, Cat. Aves de C. R., 1882, 9. — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 

 1892, 249 (San Jose, C. R., descr. of young). 

 U. S. Nat. Museum: Rio Maria Aguilar (Alfaro), Sarchi (Underwood), 



Alajuela (Alfaro). 

 Bangs Collection: Carrillo, Escazu, San Jose, Irazu (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Tres Rios. 

 Carnegie Museum: Escazu and San Jose (Underwood). Two skins. 



Found sparingly over the central plateau. I did not happen to meet 

 with this species in life, common as it is in certain places, but I understand 

 it is found in shrubbery, second-growth scrub, and hedge-rows, not in- 

 habiting the thick forest. 



742. Melozone cabanisi (Sclater and Salvin). 

 Melozone biarcuata (not Pyrgita biarcuata Prevost) Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 

 i860, 412 (San Jose [Frantzius, Hoffmann and Ellendorf]); 1866,233, part 

 (Costa Rica). 



