FAMILY TIIRAUPIDAE 



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Resident. A rare or local inhabitant of highland forest in Chiriqui, 

 Veraguas, Bocas del Toro, and adjacent Costa Rica, where it is found 

 at higher elevations than any of its Central American relatives. In 

 Costa Rica, Ridgely (in litt.) has seen it up to about 2800 m. Arce 

 collected 2 on the Cordillera del Chucu, Veraguas, in 1869 (Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 187). In Chiriqui, W. W. Brown, 

 Jr., (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 65) col- 

 lected it at Volcan de Chiriqui and Boquete between 1200 and 2250 m, 

 and Olson obtained a specimen at about 2100 m on Cerro Horqueta. 

 Monniche (Blake, Fieldiana: Zool., vol. 36, no. 5, 1958, p. 566) col- 

 lected it at Volcan de Chiriqui between 1500 and 1950 m, and at Camp 

 Holcomb (1500 m), Holcomb Trail, Bocas del Toro, the only record 

 from the Caribbean slope. Of the birds Monniche collected, those taken 

 between March 23 and May 16 had active gonads. 



The only recent sightings known to Ridgely (in litt.) are of 2 birds 

 seen by Paul Donahue on January 30, 1980, near Santa Clara, Chiriqui, 

 and 1 bird seen by N. G. Smith on April 8, 1975, above Santa Fe, 

 Veraguas. 



TANGARA DOWII FUCOSA Nelson 



Tangara fucosus Nelson, 1921, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 60(3), p. 17. (Mount Pirri (at 

 5,000 feet altitude) near head of Rio Limon, eastern Panama.) 



Characters. — Crown spotted with pale green; rump and upper tail 

 coverts green, turning to light blue; edging on remiges lighter than on 

 wing coverts; black feathers of throat edged blue; undersurface 

 ochraceous-bufT. 



Measurements. — Males (6 from Darien), wing 70.4-74.3 (72.4), 

 tail 44.6-50.4 (47.9), oilmen from base 10.8-12.0 (11.3), tarsus 17.6- 

 18.8 (18.2) mm. 



Females (3 from Darien), wing 69.8-72.0 (70.9), tail 45.2-47.3 

 (46.6), culmen from base 11.0-11.5 (11.3), tarsus 17.3-18.4 (17.9) 

 mm. 



Resident. Known only from specimens collected at Cerro Pirre 

 and Cerro Mali in eastern Darien. E. A. Goldman took 4 at Cerro 

 Pirre between 1500 and 1560 m near the head of the Rio Limon, during 

 April and May, 1912; he noted that the pair taken April 22 was "breed- 

 ing." More recently, R. Hinds shot a male at the airfield at El Real 

 (550 m) on August 9, 1965. Pedro Galindo collected 4 on Cerro Mali 

 at 1440 m, 6.4 km west of the summit, during May 1962 and May and 

 June 1963. Cerro Pirre, the type locality, is a separate mountain mass, 



