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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



Resident. Local in foothills of both slopes of Veraguas and Cocle. 

 Rex R. Renson collected it in Veraguas at Santa Fe (600 m) on the 

 Pacific slope and on the Rio Calovevora on the Caribbean side. In 

 January 1974, Ridgely (in litt.) found it at Santa Fe up to 900 m. On 

 May 16, 1953, I collected a male in gallery forest at about 360 m, near 

 La Arena, 16 km west of Sona, Veraguas, and on February 27, 1962, 

 I collected a female at Tigre (1425 m) at the head of the Rio Guabal, 

 Cocle, where it was with a small flock of forest birds moving along a 

 quebrada. 



CHLOROTHRAUPIS CARMIOLI LUTESCENS Griscom 



Chlorothraiipis carmioli lutescens Griscom, 1927, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 280, pi. 

 18. (Tacarcuna, eastern Panama.) 



Characters. — Very similar to nominate carmioli, but undersurface 

 slightly more yellowish, less tinged with green. 



A male collected at the Peluca Hydrographic Station, Colon, had the 

 iris wood brown; mandible and narrow line along cutting edge of 

 maxilla neutral gray; rest of maxilla dull blackish neutral gray; tarsus, 

 toes, and claws neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Province of Panama), wing 83.2- 

 94.0 (88.7), tail 61.4-69.2 (65.2), oilmen from base 19.2-22.4 (20.0), 

 tarsus 20.8-23.2 (22.1) mm. 



Females (10 from Province of Panama), wing 80.8-90.3 (88.0), tail 

 61.7-68.5 (64.2), culmen from base 18.3-21.0 (20.0), tarsus 20.7-24.1 

 (20.3) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common from the Canal Zone area (Pipeline 

 Road area), where it has only recently been found (Ridgely, 1976, p. 

 322), east along the entire Caribbean slope, and more locally along the 

 Pacific slope. I have collected it in the Province of Panama at Cerro 

 Azul and between 180 and 510 m on Cerro Chucanti, and in Colon at 

 the Peluca Hydrographic Station. In Darien, it is known from Cerro 

 Mali and Cerro Tacarcuna, where I took 1 at 1440 m, but not from the 

 Cerro Pirre massif; in San Bias, Wedel collected it at Perme, Obaldia, 

 and Ranchon (Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, 1932, p. 370). 

 On March 6, 1963, I found a nest at Armila, San Bias, that contained 

 an addled egg and a young bird 5 or 6 days old. The nest was about 2 m 

 from the ground in the top of a forest shrub. The young bird's head, 

 dorsal pteryla, and humeral tract had filamentous brownish gray down, 

 abundant and about 15-16 mm long; its open gape was edged with clear 

 white. 



