FAMILY TURAUPIDAE 



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vora in 1926, and Benson took several at Santa Fe in 1925. In Chiriqui, 

 I have found it at Puerto Armuelles and Buena Vista, Brown collected 

 9 at Divala (Bangs, Auk, 1901, p. 369), Arce took it at Bugaba (Sal- 

 vin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, p. 139) and M. E. Davidson col- 

 lected 1 at Barriles. 



A nest found by Austin Smith in Costa Rica on May 8, 1932, was in 

 a low bush near a stream, well within forest. Two eggs in the collection 

 of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology are white with bold 

 chocolate brown and grayish brown spots predominating slightly to- 

 ward the large ends. They measure 25.60 X 17.70 and 25. 10 X 18.32 mm. 

 Ridgely (in litt. ) is unaware of any recent reports from Chiriqui. N. G. 

 Smith saw 2 above Santa Fe, Veraguas, on April 8, 1975. 



TACHYPHONUS RUFUS (Boddaert): White-lined Tanager, 

 Frutero Albilineo 



Tangara rufa Boddaert 1783, Tabl. Planches Enlum., p. 44. (Cayenne.) 



Medium size; male entirely black except for innermost wing coverts 

 which are white; female, upper surface reddish brown; undersurface 

 reddish tawny. 



Description. — Length 165-181 mm. Adult male, entirely glossy 

 black, except for innermost upper wing coverts, underwing coverts, and 

 body at base of wing, which are white. 



Adult female, upper surface, including wings and tail, reddish brown, 

 with inner webs of primaries duskier; undersurface reddish tawny, 

 lightest on throat and brightest across breast and on undertail coverts. 



A male collected at Juan Mina, Canal Zone, on January 15, 1961, 

 had the iris dark brown; maxilla, tip of mandible, and line of gonys 

 black; base of mandible neutral gray; tarsus and toes fuscous. A fe- 

 male collected the same day was similar except that the base of the bill 

 was duller gray and the rest duller black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama), wing 80.4-88.0 (85.5), 

 tail 75.9-82.7 (80.1), oilmen from base 18.6-19.8 (19.1, average of 8), 

 tarsus 19.6-24.4 (22.6) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama and Colombia), wing 79.9-85.0 (82.2), 

 tail 74.9-83.4 (78.8), oilmen from base 18.1-20.4 (19.0), tarsus 21.1- 

 24.5 (22.9) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in lowlands on the entire Caribbean 

 slope; on the Pacific slope it is more irregular: in 1966 I found it at 

 Puerto Armuelles in Chiriqui and there are several recent sight reports 

 from cleared areas around Boquete (Ridgely, 1976, p. 324), while 



