FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE 



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69) and in Veraguas on the Cordillera de Tole and Cordillera del 

 Chucu by Arce (Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 1, 

 pt. 28, 1884) ; elsewhere in Veraguas, Benson collected several at Chitra 

 and Ridgely (1976, p. 338) found it fairly numerous especially along 

 streams in forest above Santa Fe on January 4-5, 1974. Monniche took 

 a female at Cedral at 1440 m on the Holcomb Trail in Bocas del Toro 

 (Blake, Fieldiana: Zool., vol. 36, no. 5, 1958, p. 573). 



LYSURUS CASTANEICEPS EUROUS Wetmore 



Lysurus crassirostris eurous Wetmore, 1967, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 80, p. 

 240. (Near head of north fork of Rio Pucro, 1,250 m., Cerro Tacarcuna, 

 Darien, Panama.) 



Characters. — Similar to L. c. crassirostris, but yellow of undersur- 

 face less extensive and faintly duller; gray of side of head and throat 

 slightly lighter; crown darker, more brownish; bill slightly larger. 



The type, a male from Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien, collected on Febru- 

 ary 28, 1964, had the iris dark brown; maxilla, except cutting edge, 

 black; mandible and basal half of cutting edge neutral gray, anterior 

 half of cutting edge brownish neutral gray; tarsus and toes fuscous- 

 brown; claws brownish dark neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Male (the type), wing 73.9, tail 58.4, culmen from 

 base 17.3, tarsus 27.5 mm. 



Resident. Known only from the type specimen, a male I collected 

 at 1250 m near the head of the north fork of the Rio Pucro, Cerro 

 Tacarcuna, Darien, on February 28, 1964. The bird flew into a mist 

 net set across a narrow stream. 



ARREMON AURANTIIROSTRIS Lafresnaye: Orange-billed Sparrow, 

 Gordon Piquianaranjado 



Medium size; crown black with white superciliary and gray central 

 stripe; rest of upper surface, olive-green; undersurface mostly white 

 with gray on sides and flanks and black pectoral band. 



Description. — Length 136-154 mm. Adult male, crown, chin, side 

 of head, and pectoral band black; superciliary, beginning just before 

 eye, white; central crown stripe and nuchal band gray; rest of upper 

 surface yellowish green or olive-green (varies in each race); lesser 

 wing coverts nearest bend of wing, and bend itself, yellow or orange- 

 yellow; rest of wing coverts color of back; remiges and rectrices 



