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recorded" (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 117, no. 5, 1952, p. 50); it evi- 

 dently breeds there occasionally (Eisenmann and Willis, Smiths. Cont. 

 Zool. no. 291, 1979, p. 26). Ridgely (1976, p. 290) said "most easily 

 seen well out on the Pipeline Road, where apparently occurs at all sea- 

 sons." Ridgely (in litt.) feels the bird may have increased in recent 

 years, since it can now be found regularly at several localities on the 

 Caribbean slope of the Canal Zone. 



Monniche (Blake op. cit.) noted that 3 males taken April 23, May 9, 

 and July 1 had enlarged gonads, although still in subadult dress, but I 

 have no information on the nesting habits of this species in Panama. 

 Skutch (Condor, 1962, pp. 105-106) has found one nest of this race in 

 Costa Rica. It was in the crown of a tree 17 m from the ground. The 

 shallow cup of aerial rootlets, tendrils, and fern rachides was covered 

 on the outside by green, living pieces of fern, and was suspended from 

 two twigs by cobweb. The internal diameter of the nest was 10 by 11 

 cm and the depth was 2 cm. Skutch found the nest on May 9, when it 

 already contained young; they were fed by both parents, although pri- 

 marily by the female, and the next day at least 1 of the young birds left 

 the nest. 



On Barro Colorado Island, G. Hunt and E. O. Willis, on July 18, 

 1962, saw 2 males with a female, she feeding a grown fledging (Willis 

 and Eisenmann, op. cit.). 



DACNIS VENUSTA FULIGINATA Bangs 



Dacnis venusta fuliginata Bangs, 1908, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 21, p. 160. 

 (Jimenez, western Colombia, altitude 1,600 feet.) 



Characters. — Greenish tinge on undersurface of male restricted to 

 belly; rest of undersurface deep sooty black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador), 

 wing 58.2-67.0 (63.4), tail 37.7-45.4 (41.4), oilmen from base 10.9- 

 13.4 (12.3), tarsus 13.8-14.8 (14.4) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador), wing 57.0- 

 64.8 (61.7), tail 34.5-43.3 (39.7), oilmen from base 11.1-14.3 (12.9), 

 tarsus 13.3-15.8 (14.5) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in lowlands and foothills of eastern San 

 Bias and Darien, and beyond Panama as far as northwestern Ecuador. 

 In Darien it has been collected at Cana, in 1912 by E. A. Goldman, 

 from 900 to 1050 m, at Tacarcuna Village by Pedro Galindo in 1963, 

 at Mt. Sapo by the Fifth George Vanderbilt Expedition in 1941 (Bond 

 and de Schauensee, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Mon. no. 6, 1944, p. 



