FAMILY TNRAUPIDAE 



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trices black with outer webs edged turquoise-green; sides of face black 

 with feathers edged bright yellow; throat and breast feathers black, 

 edged turquoise-green, black portions becoming narrower on belly, 

 which is white; sides and flanks bright yellow-green with a few black 

 spots; abdomen white; undertail coverts black, edged yellow; bend of 

 wing white and turquoise-green; underwing coverts white. 



Juvenile, like adult but back and breast less marked with black, and 

 yellow superciliary lacking. 



A male collected at the head of the Rio Guabal, Code, on February 

 28, 1962, had the iris brown; maxilla black; mandible neutral gray; tar- 

 sus and toes dark neutral gray; claws dusky neutral gray. A female 

 taken at Tacarcuna Village, Darien, on March 6, 1964, was similar. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 

 62.2-69.0 (65.7), tail 41.4-48.8 (46.4), oilmen from base 11.4-14.1 

 (12.7), tarsus 17.0-18.6 (17.8) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 63.2-66.0 (64.2), 

 tail 43.2-45.8 (44.4), oilmen from base 11.8-13.6 (12.9), tarsus 16.2- 

 18.4 (17.3) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in foothills on the Caribbean slope be- 

 tween 300 and 500 m in humid forest and forest borders; on the Pacific 

 slope has been collected in the Chiriqui highlands at Santa Clara and up 

 to 1350 m at El Volcan, in Code at Tigre at the head of the Rio Guabal, 

 and in Darien at Cana and Tacarcuna Village. It is also known from 

 the Cerro Azul/Jefe areas in eastern Province of Panama (Ridgely, 

 1976, p. 317) . Kennard took a female on the Boquete Trail in Chiriqui 

 at 300 m (Kennard and Peters, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, 

 1928, p. 462). Ridgely (in litt.) has found it at Cerro Quia, Darien. 

 This race is also found in Costa Rica on the Caribbean slope and in the 

 Terraba Valley; other races occur in Colombia, Venezuela, northern 

 Brazil, and Trinidad. 



The Speckled Tanager is usually seen in the tree tops, where it feeds 

 on insects and fruit. It often travels in pairs or groups of 3 or 4 and is 

 sometimes part of the larger mixed species flocks. E. A. Goldman col- 

 lected several at Cana in 1912; the stomach of 1 contained a bit of ely- 

 tron of a beetle 5%, 12 seeds of Amaranthus with outer covering, and 

 one seed not determined 95%; another had 12 seeds of Solatium 40%, 

 about 50 small seeds not determined, and a few fragments of fruit skin 

 60%. The call notes include twittering weak chips and a weak tsit 

 (Slud, Bull. Amer. Mus Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, p. 350). 



A female that I collected at Tacarcuna Village on March 6, 1964, 

 was about to lay, but I have no other information on the nesting of this 



