FAMILY THRAUPIDAE 



465 



heard song of three clear notes, do, chch, whect ( Ridgeiy, 1976, p. 323) . 



Seven collected by Strauch (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 1977, p. 65) 

 weighed from 34.2 to 42.0 g. 



HABIA FUSCICAUDA FUSCICAUDA (Cabanis) 



Phoenicothraupis fuscicauda Cabanis, 1861, Journ. f. Ornith., 9, p. 86. (Costa 

 Rica.) 



Characters. — Male differs from willisi in having throat less brilliantly 

 red, undersurface more shaded with gray, the red tending toward 

 brownish or orange, crown more orange, less pure red; female dif- 

 fers in having brownish band across breast, throat less yellow, rest of 

 undersurface more brownish, crown more ochraceous-yellow, less 

 greenish. 



Measurements. — Males (9 from Bocas del Toro, Costa Rica, and 

 Nicaragua), wing 96.5-103.0 (100.9), tail 85.6-92.4 (89.3), culmen 

 from base 18.9-22.6 (20.6), tarsus 22.8-26.0 (24.6) mm. 



Females (10 from Bocas del Toro, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua), 

 wing 84.9-96.0 (91.0), tail 77.7-87.3 (82.0), culmen from base 17.1- 

 21.0 (19.1), tarsus 22.3-25.9 (24.2) mm. 



Resident. Known in Panama only from the Almirante Bay region 

 of Bocas del Toro, where I found it around Almirante. H. von Wedel 

 collected several at Changuinola, Almirante, Western River, and Cri- 

 camola (Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 71, 1931, p. 342) and 

 Austin Smith took it at Sibube on the Rio Sixaola and Zegla on the Rio 

 Teribe (specimens in the Havemeyer Collection at the Peabody Mu- 

 seum, New Haven, Conn.). In April 1980, Ridgeiy (in litt.) found 

 this race uncommon in undergrowth at forest edge near the IRHE 

 dam site camp on the lower Rio Changuinola; the birds he saw were in 

 pairs. 



HABIA FUSCICAUDA WILLISI Parkes 



Habia fuscicauda willisi Parkes, 1969, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 82, p. 238. 

 (Boca del Rio Indio, Colon, Panama.) 



Characters. — Male has throat more brilliantly red; red of rest of 

 undersurface tending toward pinkish or bluish rather than toward 

 brownish or orange; crest purer, less orange-red; female has throat 

 deeper, more brilliant yellow; little or no brownish band across breast; 

 crown more greenish yellow, less ochraceous-yellow. 



A female collected at Juan Mina, Canal Zone, on January 10, 1961, 

 had the iris wood brown; bill dusky neutral gray; tarsus and toes 



