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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



Females (10 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 59.0-62.0 (60.5), 

 tail 46.5-54.8 (50.8), culmen from base 12.7-13.7 (13.0), tarsus 18.7- 

 22.9 (20.8) mm. 



Figure 48. — Rufous-collared Sparrow, Gorrion de Collar Rojizo, Zonotrichia 



capensis costaricensis. 



Resident. Abundant in the highlands of Chiriqui and Veraguas 

 and found also on Cerro Campana and Cerro Chame in western Prov- 

 ince of Panama. On Volcan de Chiriqui and around Boquete, Chiriqui 

 W. W. Brown, Jr., (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol 3, 

 1902, p. 70) collected it between 1200 and 3000 m. I found it at Sereno, 

 Chiriqui, at 1110 m. In Veraguas, Arce collected it at Chitra, Calove- 

 vora, and Castillo (Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 

 1, pt. 48, 1886, p. 371). There is also an old skin in the Smithsonian 

 marked Cascajal, Code. Presumably this was taken on the high open 

 slopes on the Pacific side, above the head of the Rio Cascajal, which is 

 a tributary of the Rio Code del Norte. Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, who 

 has been on the Cascajal, informs me that the Caribbean slope is heavily 

 forested, but that there are open, grass slopes just over the divide to- 

 ward La Pintada. 



