FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE 



581 



were unmarked, pale blue, and measured 19 X and 18.5 X 14 mm. I have 

 no information on the nesting of this species in Panama. 



HAPLOSPIZA RUSTICA BARRILESENSIS (Davidson): Slaty Finch, 

 Pinzon Apizarrado 



Spodiornis barrilesensis Davidson, 1932, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45, p. 167. 

 (Barriles, 4500 ft., Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Small; bill slender; male entirely gray; female brownish olive on 

 upper surface; undersurface streaked brownish olive and lighter 

 shades. 



Description. — Length 114-126 mm. Adult male, entire upper sur- 

 face, including lesser wing coverts, dark gray; rest of wing feathers 

 and tail dull black, edged dark gray; entire undersurface and underwing 

 coverts lighter gray. 



Adult female, entire upper surface, including lesser wing coverts, 

 brownish olive, slightly more greenish on rump; rest of wing feathers 

 and tail blackish brown edged brownish olive; throat and belly gray, 

 tinged dull green and yellow; breast streaked with buffy olive; sides 

 and flanks buffy olive; underwing coverts gray tinged green. 



A male collected at Nueva Suiza, below Cerro Punta, Chiriqui, on 

 March 1, 1968, had the iris brown, bill black, legs flesh colored. 



Measurements. — Males (3 from Chiriqui, including the type), wing 

 71.7-75.0 (73.2), tail 46.8-50.6 (48.4), culmen from base 12.6-15.0 

 (13.7), tarsus 17.5-18.6 (18.1) mm. 



Females (2 from Costa Rica and El Salvador), wing 66.0-70.0 

 (68.0), tail 41.8-43.2 (42.5), culmen from base 12.5-12.9 (12.7), tar- 

 sus 18.5-18.9 (18.7) mm. 



Resident. Known in Panama from only a few localities in the high- 

 lands of Chiriqui, where it is rare, and from 1 specimen collected in 

 western Province of Panama. The type specimen was collected at Bar- 

 riles (1500 m) on January 28, 1931, by M. E. Davidson. In 1953, F. A. 

 Hartman took a male at Cerro Copete (1800 m), above Boquete. In 

 1968, 7 were mist-netted and 4 were collected by C. Leek at Nueva 

 Suiza (1620 m), below Cerro Punta. There are also a few recent rec- 

 ords from Bambito, near Nueva Suiza (Ridgely, 1976, p. 336) . A male 

 was collected by R. Hinds at Fortuna, central Chiriqui, (c. 900 m) on 

 August 14, 1976 (specimen at Gorgas Memorial Laboratory) and an- 

 other male was taken in western Province of Panama at Aguacate, near 

 Capira, at the base of Cerro Trinidad, on July 16, 1979, by H. Monte- 

 negro (specimen at American Museum of Natural History). This 



