I90 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



Prov. Guayas, western Ecuador," and Griscom (Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 72, no. 9, 1932, p. 366) noted that nominate cinereiventris is 

 "known to range northward to the Pacific slope of Darien," Paynter 

 (1964, Check-list Birds World, 1964, p. 445) does not include Pan- 

 ama in the range of this race. The Smithsonian has a series of 13 speci- 

 mens from Jaque and Rio Jaque, at the mouth of the Rio Imamado, 2 

 from Tacarcuna, and 2 from La Laguna that have the brown post- 

 ocular stripe characteristic of nominate cinereiventris, the form resident 

 on the Pacific slope of Colombia and Ecuador. 



Two specimens (Gorgas Memorial Laboratory Collection) were 

 taken at Alturas de Nique, eastern Darien at "2000 ft." Ridgely re- 

 ports 2 seen in Cerro Quia cloud forest, 900 m, "with a very large 

 mixed tanager flock . . . foraging 10-20 feet off the ground." 



Family MOTACILLIDAE: Pipits and Wagtails, 

 Bisbitas y Lavanderas 



The pipits and wagtails are a worldwide family of 54 species, found 

 primarily in the Old World. Two pipits inhabit temperate North 

 America and two wagtails breed in Alaska but return to Asia each year 

 for the winter. Seven species of pipit including the Yellowish Pipit, 

 represented by a race in Panama, occur in South America. Pipits are 

 streaked, rather like larks, to match the grassy environment that most 

 inhabit. The tail often is edged with white, making the birds suddenly 

 conspicuous when flushed. Pipits walk rather than hop; the tail wag- 

 ging habit is less pronounced in the Yellowish Pipit than in many 

 others. Pipits feed mainly on insects, although some vegetable matter 

 may be taken at times. Their song characteristically is given while in 

 the air, often several hundred feet from the ground. Many species of 

 temperate regions are migratory, and in Panama the Yellowish Pipit 

 seems to some extent nomadic, since I have suddenly found groups of 

 them in savannas that I had thoroughly searched for several days 

 previously without success. 



ANTHUS LUTESCENS PARVUS Lawrence: Yellowish Pipit, 

 Bisbita Amarillenta 



Figure 16 



Anthus (Notiocorys) parvus Lawrence, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 17, p. 106. (savanna near Panama.) 



Rather small, upper surface brown streaked with buff; undersurface 

 mostly yellowish white; outer tail feathers white. 



