FAMILY TIIRAUl'IDAK 



483 



A male collected at Tacarcuna Village, Darien, on March 6, 1964, 

 had the iris light gray, maxilla and tip of mandible black; base of man- 

 dible neutral gray; tarsus, toes, and claws dusky neutral gray. Females 

 I have taken were similar. 



Measurements.— Males (10 from Panama), wing 80.0-87.0 (84.7), 

 tail 68.4-81.1 (74.5), oilmen from base 18.7-20.5 (19.7), tarsus 22.8- 

 25.3 (24.4) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama), wing 78.0-86.0 (83.1), tail 66.8-78.1 

 (74.3), oilmen from base 19.3-22.1 (20.1), tarsus 24.0-25.8 (25.0) 

 mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in lowlands on the Caribbean slope from 

 the Rio Calovevora, Veraguas, where Benson and Gaffney collected 

 several that are now at the American Museum of Natural History, and 

 east to Puerto Obaldia, on the Colombian border (Griscom, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 72, 1932, p. 371), and more locally on the Pacific 

 slope, where it has been recorded in the foothills above Santa Fe, 

 Veraguas, on the northern slopes of Cerro Jefe and in the Bayano River 

 Valley of eastern Province of Panama (Ridgely, 1976, p. 326), and 

 locally in Darien, including Cana (Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 69, 1929, p. 190), Mt. Sapo (Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 65, 1922, p. 229), Cerro Pirre ( Burton, op. cit.) , and Rio 

 Jaque and Tacarcuna Village, where I have collected it, and around the 

 confluence of the Rio Mono into the Tuira, where Ridgely (in litt.) 

 found it fairly common in July 1975. Beyond Panama, it is found in 

 western Colombia and western Ecuador. 



A female I took at the Candelaria Hydrographic Station, Panama, on 

 March 9, 1961, was laying. Another collected at Puerto Obaldia, San 

 Bias, on March 17, 1963, was developing an egg nearly ready for the 

 shell. 



RHODINOCICHLA ROSEA EXIMIA Ridgway: Rosy Thrush-Tanager, 



Frutero Rosaceo 



Figure 36 



Rhodinocichla rosea eximia Ridgway, 1902, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 50 pt. 2, p. 770. 

 (Bugaba, Chiriqm, Panama.) 



Large; male dark gray with long white superciliary, and rosy red 

 undersurface; female dark gray with white superciliary, and tawny 

 undersurface. 



Description. — Length 177-191 mm. Adult male, lores rosy red be- 

 coming white over eye from which extends a long superciliary stripe of 

 white tinged rosy red; sides of head, entire upper surface, including 



