FAMILY THRAUPIDAE 



489 



1 seed of Amaranthaceae sp. 35%; bits of a small carabid 20%, orthop- 

 teran remains 34%, 2 legs of a heteropteran 1%, 20 undeveloped seeds 

 not determined 45%; a small Lachnopus sp. 20%, bits of an ant 5%, 

 immature seeds not determined 75%. Olson and Blum (Ecology, 1968, 

 pp. 565-566) report 1 that had seeds of Cecropia peltata in the intestinal 

 tract. 



CHRYSOTHLYPIS CHRYSOMELAS CHRYSOMELAS 



(Sclater and Salvin) 



Tachyphonus chrysomelas P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, p. 440, pi. 32. (Cordillera del Chucu, Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Female like ocularis, separable from titanota by ab- 

 sence of white on undersurface; male like titanota, separable from 

 ocularis by the lack of a black loral spot. 



A male collected at the head of the Rio Guabal, Code, on February 

 28, 1962, had the iris brown; bill black; tarsus and toes and claws dull 

 greenish brown; pads honey yellow. An immature male taken that day 

 was the same, but a female had the tarsus and toes more grayish green. 



Measurements. — Males (7 from Chiriqui, Code, and Province of 

 Panama), wing 61.0-67.0 (64.8), tail 45.5-49.4 (48.0), culmen from 

 base 12.6-14.1 (13.5), tarsus 15.3-17.1 (16.4) mm. 



Females (3 from Code and Province of Panama), wing 52.0-56.8 

 (54.3), tail 39.6-41.8 (40.5), culmen from base 12.8-14.4 (13.4), tar- 

 sus 15.0-16.0 (15.6) mm. 



Resident. Locally common in the forested hills of both slopes, from 

 390 to 1050 m, between Chiriqui and western Province of Panama. In 

 Veraguas, it has been taken at the type locality, in the Cordillera del 

 Chucu, in Code at the head of the Rio Guabal, and in the Province of 

 Panama at Cerro Campana. The identity of specimens taken on the 

 Boquete Trail on the Caribbean slope of Bocas del Toro above Al- 

 mirante (Kennard and Peters, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, 

 no. 10, 1928, p. 463) is uncertain, as no females were obtained. It is 

 possible that these are referable to the Costa Rican race titanota (Ol- 

 son, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 94, no. 2, 1981, p. 369). 



CHRYSOTHLYPIS CHRYSOMELAS OCULARIS Nelson 



Chrysothlypis chrysomelas ocularis Nelson, 1912, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 60(3), p. 

 19. (Cana, at 3,500 feet altitude, eastern Panama.) 



Characters. — Exactly like chrysomelas except adult male has part 

 of loral area black instead of yellow. 



