5.06(7^. 7)1 LINNAEAN SOCIETY of New York Transactions, v. 7 1955 FOR THE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY i.'^4as TRANSACTIONS OF THE UNNAEAN SOCIETY, OF C ■ ‘ ^ NEW YORK Volume VII The Species of Middle American Birds By Eugene Eisenmann New York APRIL, 1955 TRANSACTIONS OF THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY Middle American Birds A list of all species recorded from Mexico to Panama, with suggested English names, outlines of range, and a distributional bibliography. By Eugene Eisenmann With the collaboration in the selection of English names of Emmet R. Blake and Edward L. Chalif OF NEW YORK Volume VII New York APRIL, 1955 LIEPA / OF THC THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK Regular meetings of the Society are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from October to May. 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CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 1 Method of Selecting English Names 2 Technical Names 4 Ranges 4 Comments on Middle American Bird Distribution 5 Tinamiformes (5)* Tinamidae — Tinamous (5) 9 Gaviiformes (3) Gaviidae — Loons (3) 9 Colymbiformes (5) Colymbidae — Grebes (5) 9 Procellariiformes (31) Diomedeidae — Albatrosses (6) 10 Procellariidae — Shearwaters, Petrels (14) 10 Hydrobatidae — Storm-Petrels (1 1) 11 Pelecaniformes (18) Phaethontidae— Tropicbirds (3) 12 Pelecanidae— Pelicans (2) 13 Siilidae — Gannets, Boobies (5) 13 Phalacrocoracidae — Cormorants (5) 14 Anhingidae — Anhingas (1) 14 Fregatidae — Frigatebirds (2) 14 Ciconiiformes (31) Ardeidae — Herons (20) 14 Cochleariidae — Boat-billed Herons (1) 16 Ciconiidae — Storks (2) 16 Threskiornithidae — Ibises, Spoonbills (7) 16 Phoenicopteridae — Flamingos (1) 17 Anseriformes (41) Anatidae — Ducks, Geese, Swans (4i) 17 Falconiformes (65) Cathartidae — American Vultures (5) 20 Accipitridae — Hawks (44) 20 Pandionidae — Ospreys (1) 23 Falconidae — Falcons (15) 23 *The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of species here listed from Middle America in each order and family. [Hi] PAGE Galliformes (31) Cracidae — Guans, Curassows (8) ... Phasianidae — Pheasants, Partridges (21) Meleagrididae — Turkeys (2) Gruiformes (22) Gruidae — Cranes (2) Aramidae— Limpkins (1) Rallidae— Rails (17) Heliornithidae — ^Sungrebes (1) .... Eurypygidae — Sunbitterns (1) .... Charadriiformes (87) Jacanidae — Jacanas (1) Haematopodidae — Oystercatchers (2) . Charadriidae — Plovers (11) Scolopacidae — ^Snipe, Sandpipers (29) . Recurvirostridae — Avocets, Stilts (2) Phalaropodidae — Phalaropes (3) ... Burhinidae — Thick-knees (1) Stercorariidae — Skuas, Jaegers (4) . . . Laridae — Gulls, Terns (29) Rynchopidae — Skimmers (1) Alcidae — ^Auks, Murres (4) Columbiformes (32) Columbidae — Pigeons (32) Psittaciformes (32) Psittacidae — Parrots (32) Cuculiformes (15) Cuculidae — Cuckoos (15) Strigiformes (30) Tytonidae — Barn Owls (1) Strigidae — Owls (29) Caprimulgiformes (18) Nyctibiidae — Potoos (2) Caprimulgidae — Nightjars (16) .... Apodiformes (117) Apodidae — Swifts (17) Trochilidae— Hummingbirds (100) . . Trogoniformes (14) Trogonidae — Trogons (14) Coraciiformes (14) Alcedinidae — Kingfishers (6) Momotidae — Motmots (8) [iv] 24 25 26 26 26 26 28 28 28 28 28 29 31 31 32 32 32 35 35 36 38 40 41 41 43 43 44 45 52 53 53 PAGE Piciformes (60) Galbulidae — Jacamars (3) Bucconidae — Puffbirds (8) Capitonidae — Barbets (3) Ramphastidae — Toucans (8) Picidae — Woodpeckers (38) Passeriformes (752) Dendrocolaptidae — Woodcreepers (20) Furnariidae — Ovenbirds, Spinetails (23) Formicariidae — Antbirds (39) Rhinocryptidae — Tapaculos (2) Pipridae — Manakins (15) Cotingidae — Cotingas (23) Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers (106) Oxyruncidae — Sharpbills (1) Alaudidae — Larks (1) Hirundinidae — Swallows (14) Corvidae — Crows, Jays (25) Paridae — Titmice (8) Sittidae — Nuthatches (3) Certhiidae — Creepers (1) Chamaeidae — Wrentits (1) Cinclidae — Dippers (1) Troglodytidae — Wrens (45) Mimidae — Thrashers, Mockingbirds (18) Turdidae — Thrushes (31) Zeledoniidae — Wren-Thrushes (1) Sylviidae — Old World Warblers, Kinglets, Gnatcatchers (10) Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits (5) Bombycillidae — Waxwings (1) Ptylogonatidae — Silky-flycatchers (4) Laniidae — Shrikes (1) Sturnidae — Starlings (1) Cyclarhidae — Peppershrikes (1) Vireolaniidae — -Shrike-Vireos (3) Vireonidae — Vireos (26) Coerebidae — Honeycreepers (9) Parulidae — Wood-Warblers (80) Ploceidae — House Sparrows, Weavers (1) Icteridae — American Orioles, Blackbirds (46) Tersinidae — Swallow-Tanagers (1) Thraupidae — Tanagers (64) Fringillidae — Finches, Grosbeaks, Sparrows (121) Bibliography General Mexico Entire country 54 54 54 55 55 58 59 61 63 63 64 65 72 73 73 74 75 76 76 76 76 77 80 81 83 83 84 84 84 85 85 85 85 85 87 88 94 94 97 97 101 109 no [v] Mexico — continued page Xorthwest Pacific Ill West central 112 South Pacific 112 Northeast 113 Southcentral 114 Southern Gulf and Caribbean 114 British Honduras 115 Guatemala 116 El Salvador 116 Honduras 116 Nicaragua 117 Costa Rica 117 Panama 118 Neighboring countries 119 Index to genera and group names 121 INTRODUCTION Improved travel facilities have greatly stimulated interest in the bird life of Middle America — the region from Mexico to Panama. Before long the Inter-American Highway will make possible automobile traffic from the ITnited States to beyond the Canal Zone; even today it is only a few hours flight to the cities of Mexico and Panama. A large proportion of the several thousand forms currently recognized from Middle America are but slightly varying races of species found through much of the region, and in many cases well into South America. Amateurs and ornithological writers have long felt the need for a list of English names by which each species could be designated throughout its range, without regard to locality or the subspecies involved. Actually no list of Middle American species, even by their technical names, has been available since the outdated tabular lists that appeared fifty years ago in Biologia Centrali-Americana: Aves. The great multi-volumed reference works. Birds of North and Middle America and Catalogue of Birds of the Americas, contain much of the basic data from which a distributional list may be prepared, but they fail to provide English names for species as such. Instead, contrary to modern practice, each subspecies is given a separate common name, without any consistent policy of indicating conspecific relationships. Frequently the names adopted in these works disagree; often they are perfunctory translations of the technical designations without regard to appropriateness; and occasionally the same name is applied to two distinct species. Those wishing to use an English name for the species unit, rather than for each subspecies, have been forced to make their own selections. Selection of a suitable name for a polytypic species requires examination of specimens, or at least literature, covering the range of the species. As the individual writer usually lacks the time or the facilities to make an adequate check for this purpose, he is often likely to choose or invent a name for the species, which, though seemingly appropriate for the subspecies he knows best, may be grossly misleading for the species as a whole. Such individual selections, even when otherwise satisfactory, create a multiplicity of names which handicaps popular ornithology. The use of differing names tends to limit the value of published observations, for others may fail to recog- nize the species discussed. Now that popular bird guides for the area are beginning to appear, it seems desirable to lay a foundation, before it is too late, for some measure of uniformity. This paper provides a convenient list of the fourteen hundred species presently known to have been recorded in Middle America, giving the technical name, a suggested English name, and a brief outline of range. The English names were chosen, in almost all instances, from those already in the literature. Great weight was given to the mainten- ance of well-settled usage, but as relatively few truly neotropical birds have established English names, very substantial consideration was accorded to the factors of appropriateness to the entire species and utility to the amateur. The English names here recommended (save for a few variations resulting chiefly from taxonomic or orthographic considerations) have been adopted for their respective areas by the only current handbook covering a Middle American country, Blake’s Birds of Mexico (1953), by Eisenmann’s Annotated List of Birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone (1952), and by Chalif’s projected Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, which will cover the birds of Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The birds treated in these works comprise nearly all species having a wide range in Middle America. Method of Selecting English Names 1. Eor species reaching Middle America chiefly as migrants from the area north of Mexico the current preferences of the A.O.U. Com- mittee on Classification and Nomenclature have been followed. As no oflicial list of such English species names has yet been issued and there may be changes of view before the publication of the next A.O.U. Check-List, in a few instances there is also listed an alternate name regarded by many students as superior. Occasionally, to distinguish the northern species from a closely allied species also found in Middle America, an A.O.U. name has been slightly modified, by adding some such simple prefix as “American”, “Northern”, “Common”, or the like. 2. For neotropical or essentially Middle American species (even though ranging slightly into southwestern United States) the basic idea was to select from the literature an appropriate name, already used for the species as a whole or for one of its subspecies, having if possible some associative value. Names suggesting a characteristic of the species in regard to appearance, behavior, or habitat were favored over patronymics, because such names are often aids in identifying or remembering a species. Geographic names were generally avoided (except for representative or very local species), as they tend to be misleading or to suggest subspecific relationship. When more than one appropriate name for a species appeared in the literature, preference was given (other factors being about equal) CO the name used in the A.O.U. Check-List, in Ridgway’s Birds of North and Middle America, or in Hellmayr’s Catalogue of Birds of the Americas, in that order. Though the overwhelming majority of names were drawn from these three works, some were taken also from the writings of Beebe, Bond, Brabourne and Chubb, Gould, Griscom, Penard, Skutch, and van Rossem, and particularly the Distributional Check-List of the Birds of Mexico (Part I) and Sutton’s Mexican Birds. Very few names are wholly new. The availability of the vast neo- tropical collection of the American Museum of Natural History, to which its custodians kindly offered free access, made possible checking of proposed names against most races of each species. Helpful ideas and comments were received from D. Amadon, R. S. Arbib, Jr., R. A. Paynter, Jr., F. A. Pitelka, A. F. Skutch, R. W. Storer, G. M. Sutton, J. Van Tyne, and particularly Ludlow Griscom and Alexander Wetmore. John L. Bull read the entire manuscript and supplied many useful suggestions, both with respect to names and other matters. After preparation of a preliminary list, containing alternate English names for many species, it was sent to Emmet R. Blake and Edward L. Chalif (each then working independently on a Middle American bird book) for indication of their respective preferences and suggestions. It was gratifying to find that in almost all cases our preferences were the same. In the relatively few instances where initially we did not concur, agreement was ultimately reached (often after much discussion) on names felt by all three to be acceptable. It is inevitable that not all our selections will please everyone. In fact they do not all please our little committee. We felt it desirable, for the sake of uniformity, to defer to the views of the A.O.U. Check-List Committee in many instances where we would have favored another name. Certain names of doubtful usefulness we accepted because they had appeared in the literature and we could not find any really good name not conflicting with that of another species. Generally speaking, we preferred a reasonably associative name previously employed in the literature to the invention of a wholly new, though possibly better, name. Regarding orthography, the recommendations of Cheesman and Oehser (Auk, 54: 333-340, 1937) have been followed in the main. Compound group names are generally written as one word, being hyphenated only when a single word seemed clumsy or likely to [3] obscure relationship, meaning, or pronunciation. If hyphenated, the second word of a group name is capitalized only when designating a subdivision of birds to which the group actually belongs or is allied (cf. Common Tody-Flycatcher and Gray Silky-flycatcher, the former is, the latter is not, a member of Tyrannidae, the Tyrant Flycatchers). At the suggestion of R. S. Arbib, in hyphenated specific names, doubling of the past participle is avoided for simplicity and euphony {e.g., Bar- tailed and Stripe-crowned are used, rather than Barred-tailed and Striped-crowned). Technical Names The technical nomenclature is essentially that of the Hellmayr volumes of the Catalogue of Birds of the Americas, supplemented and modified chiefly by Peters’ Check-List of Birds of the World, the Fried- mann volumes of Birds of North and Middle America, Zimmer’s Studies of Peruvian Birds, and the recent Supplements (1944-1954) to the A.O. U. Check-List of North American Birds. Since one major purpose of this list is to provide English names for birds that, on the basis of present knowledge, may be regarded as species, some forms or groups of forms are here listed as species that many ornithologists (including members of our own committee) consider to be subspecies. Where there is such current disagreement as to the specific rank or relation- ship of a Middle American bird, this is indicated in a footnote, and if the appropriateness of the suggested English name would be affected by a different taxonomic opinion an alternate name is supplied. Ranges Ranges are limited to the barest outline, for the main purpose is to indicate the countries of Middle America where each species is known to occur. The ranges are derived chiefly from the Catalogue of Birds of the Americas, with numerous modifications based on other published papers, and in many instances from unpublished data — usually labelled specimens in the American Museum of Natural History or information from qualified ornithologists. More detailed distributional data can, of course, be found in the works already mentioned and in various local papers listed in the annexed bibliography. The following orni- thologists have generously given me information as to ranges of certain species: H. Friedmann, F. C. Lincoln (North American migrants): M. Alvarez del Toro, E. R. Blake, L. I. Davis, G. M. Sutton (Mexico); R. A. Paynter, Jr. (Yucatan Peninsula); K. C. Parkes (British Hon- duras): M. J. Carr, J. C. Dickinson, Jr. (Honduras); L. Griscom (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama); A. R. Phillips (Mexico, Guatemala): T. R. Howell (Nicaragua): A. F. Skutch, M. A. Carriker, Jr. (Costa Rica): R- C. Murphy (sea-birds ofif Panama): C. H. Rogers (Costa Rica, Panama): A. Wetmore (Panama): J. Bond (West Indies, Panama). They should not be held responsible, however, for any errors in the present paper. Abbreviations: Geographical abbreviations have been freely em- ployed. The constantly iterated “Mid. Am.” (Middle America) indi- cates— unless expressly qualified — that the species occurs in all the Middle American countries: Mexico, British Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The same abbreviation preceded by “Trop.” (Tropical) imports breeding in some part of the tropical lowlands of each of these countries, though in many cases the species may also range into the mountains, while in others distribution may be very local. “Highlands” indicates that in Middle America the species usually breeds above 2,500-3,000 feet. “Mts.” means that the usual breeding range is above 5,000 feet. The breeding range runs to the first semicolon: or, if there is no such mark, to the end. Many of the gaps in the ranges of individual species doubtless indicate merely gaps in present knowledge or at least in published data. This is certainly true of sea-birds, of northern migrants generally, and of a number of resident species in British Honduras and Nicaragua (for which no published check-list exists), and in Honduras (for which the published check-list is very incomplete). Calling attention to the apparent gaps may help elicit the true situation. While it is unlikely that many breeding species wholly new to the Middle American avi- fauna will be added (except perhaps in the Darien region of eastern Panama adjacent to South America), in detailed distributional knowl- edge the ornithology of Middle America is still at the pioneer stage. Comments on Middle American Bird Distribution The very brevity of the range outlines emphasizes certain facts of faunal interest. Thus the exclusion of El Salvador from the range of a lowland species generally indicates that it is a bird of humid forest, absent from the semi-arid Pacific slope over which El Salvador extends. Similarly the absence from British Honduras, El Salvador and Nica- ragua of certain widely distributed montane species may be explained by the small area and low altitude of the mountains in those countries. Generally speaking, plateaus or mountain ranges separate the trop- ical lowlands of the Atlantic (Gulf and Caribbean) from those of the Pacific slope. The true tropical climate in Middle America has an almost uniform year-round temperature (governed chiefly by altitude). with two seasons — a rainy season and a dry. The dry season, con- trolled by the northeast trade winds, comes during the northern winter. The fact is sometimes overlooked that much of Mexico is within the Temperate Zone geographically, and that the high interior plateaus and mountains carry the climate, vegetation, and fauna of that zone far south of the Tropic of Cancer. Many northern species, including such well-known birds as Red-shafted Flicker {Colaptes cafer), Brown Creeper {Certhia familiaris) , Common Bluebird {Sialia sialis), Red Crossbill {Loxia curvirostra) and Chipping Sparrow {Spizella passerina), range as breeders as far as Nicaragua, which is also the southern limit of pine trees. A few species of northern affinities, like Red-tailed Hawk {Buteo jamaicensis), Hairj^ Woodpecker {Dendrocopos villosus), American Dipper {Cinclus mexicanus) and Volcano Junco {Junco vulcani), breed south to the mountains of western Panama. The montane avifauna of tropical Middle America is characterized not only by certain northern species, but by some endemics, and by a number of so-called subtropical forms with close relatives in the mountains of western South America. As the Middle American high- lands are interrupted by lowland gaps (notably the Isthmus of Tehuan- tepec, southern Nicaragua and central Panama), this montane fauna is not continuous; yet, as Chapman long ago pointed out, the same species frequently occur from Mexico to Ecuador. The Caribbean lowlands have a relatively short dry season, relieved by showers, so that the area naturally supports, from Veracruz in Mexico to western Colombia, a perpetually green forest.* The rather recent derivation of the rain forest avifauna from South America is indicated not only by the identity of the species, but also by the increase in variety as one approaches that continent. Major exceptions on the Caribbean slope to the humid climate are the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula and certain interior valleys in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the bird-life of which resembles that of the drier Pacific slope. As the intervening mountains drain the northeast trade winds of their moisture, there prevails over most of the Pacific lowlands a longer, more severe, dry season. This results, depending on local conditions, in a variety of semi-arid environments, ranging from deciduous forest to grassland and desert scrub. The avifauna includes (in addition to the more widely distributed birds) a number of endemic species, some of which range into southwestern United States. This endemic avifauna *Man is increasingly destroying this forest; but in Middle America south of Mexico most of the population is on the Pacific slope, and it is on that slope that the forests are most reduced. [6] ends in northwestern Costa Rica with the appearance on the Pacific coast south of the Gulf of Nicoya of heavy forest, which (locally interrupted by savannas) continues into western Panama. Much of the Pacific coast of Panama is relatively open, with forest on the hillsides and near permanent water. Typical rain forest appears in Darien province, which has but a brief dry season and adjoins the wettest section of South America (northwestern Colombia), with a rather similar and enormously varied bird life. As is to be expected from the geographic situation, in Panama a number of Central Ameri- can forms meet their South American representatives, raising interest- ing problems from the viewpoint of speciation. But present conditions cannot wholly account for present bird dis- tribution. For example, there are absent from the Pacific coast of Panama, where much of the environment seems suitable, a number of species of semi-arid country that breed not only from Mexico to northern Costa Rica but also in South America; e.g., Rufescent Tina- mou {Crypturellus cinnamomeus), Double-striped Thick-knee {Bur- hinus histriatus), Common Ground Dove (Columbigallina passerina), Grayish Saltator {Saltator coerulescens). The gap in some cases extends from Honduras to South America; viz.. Vermilion Flycatcher {Pyro- cephalus rubinus), Green Jay {Cyanocorax yncas). To achieve such ranges, it seems likely that at one time these species occupied the intervening area, which thereafter became unsuitable because of cli- matic or topographic changes. Similarly, the presence in northern Yucatan Peninsula of many species otherwise restricted in Mexico to the Pacific coast suggests a former semi-arid connection through country that today supports humid forest. The surprising number of endemics (lowland as well as mountain species) in southern Costa Rica and the adjacent Chiriqui province of western Panama must indicate that at one time the Costa Rica-Chiriqui area was much more isolated than today. The occurrence as breeders in Nicaragua of a few birds, otherwise unknown in Middle America, having their nearest relatives in northern South America; e.g., Pearl Kite {Gampsonyx swainsoni), Nicaraguan Seed-Finch {Oryzoborus nuttingi), is even more puzzling. The explana- tion may possibly lie in the fact that Nicaragua, occupying the south- eastern part of a hump-like projection into the Caribbean, doubtless intercepts storm-driven South American strays, which, in rare in- stances, may have become established and, through isolation, occa- sionally have developed a local form. Regarding North American migrants, it is striking that very few passerine species breeding only in the West winter farther south than [7] Nicaragua, and most do not seem to go regularly beyond Guatemala. On the other hand, almost all eastern species migrating as far as Guatemala also reach Panama, and many winter to South America. The reason for this pattern in winter ranges is not apparent. But our actual information of winter habitats, migration dates and routes in Middle America is extremely sparse. In fact so 'ittle is recorded of the ecological preferences, local dis- tribution, and behavior of most birds in Middle America that any conscientious observer can add greatly to knowledge. It is hoped that the following list of some 1,424 species may stimu- late study of the living birds, and help to accelerate the day when the A.O.U. Check-List of North American Birds will include the avifauna of Middle America — ornithologically the richest part of our North American continent.* *The number of species here listed in each order and family is indicated in the table of contents, supra. [81 Order TI NAM I FORMES Family TINAMIDAE TINAMOUS Tinamus major Great Tinamou Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and n. S. Am. Nothocercus bonapartei Highland Tinamou Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Crypturellus soul Little Tinamou Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and n.w. S. Am. Crypturellus boucardi Slaty-breasted Tin.amou Carib. slope trop. Mid. Am. to n. Costa Rica (both slopes). Crypturellus cinnamomeus Rufescent Tinamou Trop. Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica; also n.e. Colombia and Venez. Order GAVI I FORMES Family GAVIIDAE LOONS Gavia stellata Red-throated Loon Circumpolar regions; winters to Pac. coast Mexico. Gavia arctica Arctic or Black-throated Loon Circumpolar regions; winters to Pac. coast Mexico. Gavia immer Common Loon N. N. Am., Greenland, Iceland and islands n. of Europe; in Am. winters to Pac. coast Mexico. Order COLYMB I FORMES Family COLYMBIDAE GREBES Colymbus^ dominicus Least Grebe S.e. Texas, Mid. Am., Greater Antilles, Bahamas, and trop. S. Am. Colymbus caspicus Eared or Black-necked Grebe Old World, w. N. Am. to n.w. Mexico; winters in Am. to Guate- mala; also Colombia. ' It has been proposed that Podiceps be adopted for this genus, which would result in changing the family name to Podicipididae and the ordinal name to Podi- cipidiformes. Aechmophorus occidentalis Western Grebe W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Podilymbus podiceps Pied-billed Grebe N. Am., Mid. Am., West Indies and S. Am. Podilymbus gigas Atitlan Grebe Guatemala (Lake Atitlan). Order PROCELLARIIFORMES Family DIOMEDEIDAE ALBATROSSES Diomedea exulans Wandering Albatross Antarctic is.; ranges in s. oceans; once Panama Bay. Diomedea irrorata Galapagos Albatross Galapagos Is.; ranges n. to Panama and s. to Peru. Diomedea albatrus Short-tailed Albatross Is. cent, and w. N. Pacific; formerly ranged to Pac. coast N. Am. and Mexico (off Baja California); now nearly extinct. Diomedea nigripes Black-footed Albatross Is. cent, and w. N. Pacific; ranges to Pac. coast N. Am. and Mexico (Baja Calif.). Diomedea immutabilis Laysan Albatross Is. cent. N. Pacific; ranges to Mexico (Baja Calif.). Diomedea chrysostoma Gray-headed Albatross Is. w. S. Pacific; ranges over s. oceans; once Pac. coast Panama. Family PROCELLARIIDAE SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS Fulmarus glacialis Northern Fulmar Circumpolar; winters casually s. to Mexico (Pac. coast). Fulmarus^ antarcticus Antarctic Fulmar Antarctic; ranges to Peru and once to Mexico (Mazatlan). Puffinus creatopus Pink-footed Shearwater Mas Atierra Is., Chile; ranges to Alaska, Mexico (Baja Calif.). Puffinus pacificus Wedge-tailed Shearwater Is. of cent, and w. Pacific and of Indian Oceans, and off Mexico (Revilla GIgedo Is.); recorded off Pac. coast Mexico and Panama. Puffinus griseus Sooty Shearwater Is. S. Pacific; ranges off both coasts N. Am., Pac. coast Mexico, Costa Rica (sight, A. P. Smith) and Panama (sight, R. C. Murphy). “ Sometimes placed in a separate genus Priocella; also called Silver-gray Fulmar. [10] PufRnus tenuirostris Short-tailed* Shearwater Is. off Australia: ranges to Pac. coast N. Am., casually to Mexico and Panama. Puffinus nativitatis Christmas Island Shearwater Is. trop. (chiefly cent.) Pac.; taken once between Clipperton I. and Mexican coast. Puffinus puffinus'* Common Shearwater Is. cooler waters of the Old World, in America breeds in Mexico (Is. in Gulf of Calif, and off Baja Calif.). Puffinus auricularis^ Revilla Gigedo Shearwater Mexico (Revilla Gigedo Is.). Puffinus Iherminieri Dusky-backed Shearwater Is. in pan-tropical waters, in America West Indies, Tobago and Galapagos; ranges to s.e. U. S., in Caribbean Sea, and Pac. coast of n. S. Am.; sight reports off Panama (Pac. coast, R. C. Murphy). Pterodroma neglecta Variable Petrel Is. warmer waters of Indian and Pac., inch Juan Fernandez Is. off Chile; taken once off Revilla Gigedo Is., Mexico {fide R. C. Murphy). Pterodroma phaeopygia Dark-rumped Petrel Hawaiian and Galapagos Is.; ranges in America off Pac. coast n. S. Am. to vicinity of Clipperton I. off Pac. coast of Mexico, sight reports off Pac. coast Panama (R. C. Murphy). Pterodroma externa White-necked Petrel Kermadec and Juan Fernandez Is.; ranges in America off Pac. coast S. Am. n. to vicinity of Clipperton I. off Mexico. Pterodroma cookii Blue-footed Petrel Is. S. Pacific; ranges in America off Pac. coast S. Am. n. to Mexico (off Baja Calif.); recorded Aleutians. Family HYDROBATIDAE STORM-PETRELS Oceanites oceanicus Wilson’s Petrel Antarctic Is.; ranges in America commonly into N. Atl. and casually N. Pac., taken Veracruz, Mexico. Oceanites gracilis White-vented Petrel Probably breeds Peru and Galapagos Is.; ranges off Pac. coast S. Am. n. to Panama (sight, R. C. Murphy). ’ This, the standard name in Australia where the species breeds, is also used by Murphy in “Oceanic Birds of South America,” and is therefore favored over “Slender- billed” Shearwater. The A.O.U. is followed in treating P. opisthomelas, the Black-vented Shearwater, as a race of P. puffinus. R. C. Murphy would also treat auricularis as a subspecies. Pelagodroma marina White-faced Petrel Coasts of Australia, New Zealand and is. in S. Atl., trop. e. N. Atl. and w. S. Pac.; ranges in America to Cocos I., Costa Rica and Galapagos. Oceanodroma tethys Wedge-rumped Petrel Galapagos and Peruvian Is.; ranges off Pac. coast Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos I.) and Panama. Oceanodroma castro B.\nd-rumped Petrel Is. in pan-tropical waters of e. and cent. Atl. (Madeira, Azores to Ascension and St. Helena) and cent, and e. Pac. (Hawaiian and Galapagos Is.); in Mid. Am. recorded off Pac. coast Costa Rica (Cocos I., possibly breeding). Oceanodroma leucorhoa Leach’s Petrel Is. N. Atl. and e. N. Pac., Mexico (taxonomy of forms disputed) (Is. in Gulf of Calif., off Baja Calif, and Guadalupe I.); migrates to S. Atl., Caribbean Sea and e. S. Pac. to Galapagos; recorded once off Pac. coast Guatemala.® Oceanodroma macrodactyla Guadalupe Petrel Mexico (Guadalupe I.); possibly extinct. Oceanodroma markhami Sooty Petrel Ranges off Peru and Chile; taken near Clipperton I. off Pac. coast Mexico and Costa Rica (Cocos I.). Oceanodroma homochroa Ashy Petrel Is. off Calif, and Mexico (Baja Calif.). Oceanodroma melania Bl.a.ck Petrel Mexico (Is. off Baja Calif, and in Guff of Calif.); ranges to Pac. coast Panama and S. Am. Halocyptena microsoma Least Petrel Mexico (Is. off Baja Calif, and in Gulf of Calif.); ranges to Pac. coast Panama and S. Am. Order PELECAN I FORMES Family PHAETHONTIDAE TROPICBIRDS Phaethon aethereus Red-billed Tropicbird Is. in trop. Atl. (including West Indies), Pac. and Indian Oceans: Mexico (Pac. coast), Panama (Swan Key, Caribbean coast); re- corded also Pac. coast El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica (Gulf of Nicoya). * The form socorroensis, treated by Peters as a race of the -Asiatic 0. monorhis. Phaethon lepturus White-tailed Tropicbird Is. in trop. Atl. (including West Indies), cent. Pac. and Indian Oceans; in Mid. Am. recorded off Caribbean Guatemala (Puerto Barrios). Phaethon rubricauda Red-tailed Tropicbird Is. in trop. cent. Pac. and Indian Oceans; in Mid. Am. casual off Pac. coast Mexico (Baja Calif, and Revilla Gigedo Is.). Family PELECANIDAE PELICANS Pelecanus erythrorhynchus American White Pelican N. cent. N. Am.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala.® Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican S.w. Canada, w. and s. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family SULIDAE GANNETS AND BOOBIES Morus^ bassanus Northern Gannet Local, is. off N. Atl. coasts; winters to Gulf of Mexico (Veracruz). Sula nebouxii Blue-footed Booby Local, trop. is. Pac.; Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Sula dactylatra Blue-faced or Masked Booby Local, trop. is. Atl. (inch Caribbean), Pac. and Indian Oceans; Mexico (Yucatan Pen., Baja Calif.); recorded from Guatemala (Pac. sight, A. J. van Rossem), Nicaragua and Panama (both coasts). Sula sula Red-footed Booby Local, trop. is. Atl. (inch Caribbean), Pac. and Indian Oceans; Mexico (Tres Marias and Revilla Gigedo Is.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Costa Rica (Cocos L); recorded off coast of Mexico (Pac.), Nicaragua (Caribbean), Panama (Caribbean; sight off Pearl Is., B. B. Sturgis). Sula leucogaster Brown Booby Local, trop. is. Atl. (inch Caribbean), Pac. and Indian Oceans; Mexico (Yucatan Pen., Gulf of Calif., Pac. coast), Brit. Honduras, and both coasts of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; ranging off Guatemala (Caribbean, sight, L. Griscom), and El Salvador (sight, O. Salvin). ‘ There seems to be no evidence that this species occurs farther south. ^ Some authors merge this genus in Sula. Family PHALACROCORACIDAE CORMORANTS Phalacrocorax auritus Double-crested Cormorant N. Am., Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Pac. coast), Brit. Honduras. Phalacrocorax olivaceus Olivaceous or Neotropic Cormorant Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas, Cuba, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Phalacrocorax penicillatus Brandt’s Cormorant Pac. coast N. Am. to Mexico (Gulf of Calif, and Baja Calif.). Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pelagic Cormorant Pac. coast N. Am. to n. Mexico (n.w. Baja Calif.). Phalacrocorax bougainvillii Guanay Cormorant Is. off Pac. coast, Peru and Chile; ranges n. to Panama (sight off Darien, once, R. C. Murphy). Family ANHINGIDAE ANH INGAS Anhinga anhinga Anhinga S. U. S., Cuba, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family FREGATIDAE FRIGATEBIRDS Fregata magnificens Magnificent Frigatebird Coastal is. of trop. Atl. and e. Pac., Mid. Am. and S. Am.; ranging along both coasts of Mid. Am. Fregata minor Great Frigatebird* Is. of Pac., Indian and S. Atl. oceans, Mexico (Revilla Gigedo Is.); casually ranging off Pac. coast Mexico. Order Cl CON 1 1 FORMES Family ARDEIDAE HERONS Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron N. Am., West Indies, Mexico, Galapagos Is.; regular throughout the year in IMid. Am., though breeding uncertain; winters to n. S. Am. Ardea occidentalis® Great White Heron S. Florida and Greater Antilles; Mexico (Yucatan Pen.). * This is the established name in the literature of Australia, where the species is common, and where “Lesser” Frigatebird is used for F. arid. ® Perhaps a color phase of A. herodias. Ardea cocoi White-necked Heron S. Am.; e. Panama (sight, once, A. Wetmore). Pilherodius pileatus Capped Heron Panama and S. Am. Butorides virescens Green Heron N. Am., West Indies, Mid. Am.; winters to n. S. Am. Butorides striatus‘“ Striated Heron Old World tropics, e. Panama and S. Am. Florida caerulea Little Blue Heron S. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Dichromanassa rufescens Reddish Egret S. U. S., Bahamas, Greater Antilles and Mexico (both coasts); winters to Pac. coast Guatemala and El Salvador. Casmerodius* albus Common or Large Egret Old World, U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Leucophoyx^ thula Snowy Egret U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Bubulcus^ ibis Cattle Egret Warmer parts of Old World, recently breeding in n. S. Am. and Florida; present (possibly breeding) in e. U. S. and Panama (sight, E. Eisenmann, F. O. Chapelle, repeatedly and in numbers). Hydranassa tricolor Tricolored Heron S. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Agamia agami Chestnut-bellied Heron Local: trop. Mid. Am. (not recorded El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) and S. Am. Nycticorax nycticorax Black-crowned Night-Heron Old World, N. Am., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Nyctanassa violacea Yellow-crowned Night-Heron U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Tigrisoma lineatum Banded Tiger-Heron Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am.; Mexico (Chiapas, once). Heterocnus mexicanus Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Trop. Mid. Am. Ixobrychus exilis Least Bittern N. Am., Mid. Am. and S. Am.; the northern race exilis winters through Mid. Am. If considered conspecific with B. virescens, Green Heron may be used for the entire complex. 1 Placed by some authors in the genus Egretla. ^ Placed by some authors in the genus Ardeola. Botaurus lentiginosus American Bittern N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. Botaurus pinnatus Pinnated Bittern S. Am.; recorded from e. Nicaragua and s.e. Mexico (Quintana Roo, fide R. A. Paynter). Family COCHLEARIIDAE^ BOAT-BILLED HERONS Cochlearius cochlearius Boat-billed Heron Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family CICONIIDAE STORKS Mycteria americana Wood Ibis or Wood Stork S. U. S., Greater Antilles, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Jabiru mycteria Jabiru Rare: trop. Mid. Am. (not reported from Brit. Honduras and Honduras), and S. Am. Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE IBISES AND SPOONBILLS Theristicus caudatus Buff-necked Ibis S. Am.; recorded from e. Panama (once). Mesembrinibis cayennensis Green Ibis Panama and S. Am. Eudocimus albus White Ibis S. U. S., Greater Antilles, Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Eudocimus ruber Scarlet Ibis Trop. S. Am.; accidental in Honduras and West Indies. Plegadis falcinellus Glossy Ibis Old World; s.e. U. S., Greater Antilles; e. Mexico (?); recorded from e. Panama once, n. Colombia. Plegadis mexicana^ White-faced Ibis W. U. S. to Mexico, also s. S. Am.; winter records in Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. Ajaia ajaja Roseate Spoonbill S. U. S., Greater Antilles, Mid. Am. and S. Am. ’ Some authors believe this group is best merged in .Ardeidae. ■* If a race of P. falcinellus, the entire complex would be called Glossy Ibis. Hellmayr and Conover say the proper name of this form is P. chihi. Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE FLAMINGOS Phoenicopterus ruber^ American Flamingo Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Venezuela, Guianas, Galapagos Is. Order ANSERIFORMES Family ANATIDAE DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Cygnus columbianus Whistling Swan Arctic N. Am.; winters casually to Mexico (Baja Calif.). Cygnus buccinator Trumpeter Swan Local: n.w. N. Am.; one record from Mexico (Tamaulipas). Chen caerulescens® Blue Goose Arctic N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Chen hyperborea® Snow Goose Arctic N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Chen rossii Ross’s Goose Arctic n.w. Canada; winters casually to Mexico (Chihuahua). Anser albifrons White-fronted Goose Arctic regions; in America winters to Mexico. Branta bernicla^ Brant Arctic regions; winters to Mexico (Baja California). Branta canadensis Canada Goose N. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Branta hutchinsii* Cackling Goose Arctic America and n.e. Siberia; in America winters to Mexico. Dendrocygna viduata White-faced Tree-Duck Trop. Africa, Madagascar and S. Am.; occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. Dendrocygna bicolor Fulvous Tree-Duck Trop. Asia, Madagascar and E. Africa, s.w. U. S., Mexico, Guate- mala and Honduras {fide M. J. Carr), also S. Am.; casual in e. Panama. ‘ If the Old World P. anliquorum is deemed a race of this species, the name Greater Flamingo may be used. ‘These birds may be color phases of the same species. If so, the scientific name would be C. caerulescens, the English name Snow Goose. ^ Birds recorded from Mexico are the western form, sometimes regarded as a species and called Black Brant, B. nigricans, which Zimmer and Delacour say should be called orientalis. * Generally regarded as conspecific with the Canada Goose, B. canadensis. Black-bellied Tree-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis S.w. U. S., Mid. Am., and S. Am. Sarkidiomis sylvicola® South American Comb-Duck Trop. S. Am.; recorded from e. Panama once. Cairina moschata Muscovy Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Anas carolinensis* *® Green-winged Teal N. N. Am.; winters to West Indies, Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras and Honduras; casual in Colombia. Anas acuta Common Pintail Holarctic regions; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported El Salvador) to Colombia. Anas platyrhynchos Common Mallard Holarctic regions; in America winters regularly to Mexico; re- corded from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Anas wyvilliana Hawaiian Duck Hawaiian Is.; once at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Anas diazi Mexican Duck S.w. U. S. and Mexico. Anas fulvigula Mottled Duck S. U. S. and e. Mexico. Anas strepera Gadwall Holarctic regions; winters to Mexico. Anas cyanoptera Cinnamon Teal W. N. Am. to n. Mexico, also S. Am.; northern birds winter regularly at least to Mexico, with scattered records from Guate- mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Anas discors Blue-winged Teal N. Am. and possibly Mexico; winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Spatula^ clypeata Northern Shoveler Holarctic regions; winters through Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras) to n. S. Am. Mareca' penelope European Widgeon Europe and n. Asia; in America winters to U. S.; once in Mexico (Baja Calif.). • May be a race of the Old World Comb-Duck, S. melanotos; if so the name Comb Duck will suffice. w If deemed a race of the Old World A. crecca, the species can be called Green- winged Teal. * These genera should perhaps be merged in Anas (Delacour and Mayr, Wilson Bull., 57:17, 1945). [18] Mareca americana Baldpate or American Widgeon N. N. Am.; winters sparingly through Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras, El Salvador) to Colombia. Aix sponsa Wood Duck N. Am., Cuba; winters to Mexico. Aythya valisineria Canvasback N. N. Am.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Aythya americana Redhead N.w. N. Am.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Aythya collaris Ring-necked Duck N. N. Am.; winters to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras; Panama (sight, R. T. and K. T. Scholes). Aythya marila Greater Scaup Holarctic regions; in America winters to West Indies and n.w. Mexico. Aythya affinis Lesser Scaup N.w. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Melanitta deglandP White-winged Scoter N. w. N. Am.; winters in America to Mexico (Baja Calif.). Melanitta perspicillata Surf Scoter N. N. Am.; winters to n.w. Mexico. Melanitta nigra Black Scoter N. Holarctic; winters in America to Mexico (Baja Calif., seen C. L. Hubbs). Bucephala clangula Common Goldeneye Holarctic regions; in America winters to w. Mexico. Bucephala albeola Bufflehead N.w. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Lophodytes cucullatus Hooded Merganser N. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Mergus merganser Common Merganser or Goosander Holarctic regions; winters in America to Mexico. Mergus serrator Red-breasted Merganser Holarctic regions; winters in America to Mexico. Oxyura dominica Masked Duck Local: Texas, Greater Antilles, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and S. Am. Oxyura jamaicensis Ruddy Duck N. Am., West Indies, Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala; re- corded Costa Rica. * By some considered a race of the Old World M. fusca. [19] Order FALCONIFORMES Family CATHARTIDAE AMERICAN VULTURES Sarcoramphus papa King Vulture Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Coragyps atratus Black Vulture S. U. S., Mid. Am., S. Am. Cathartes burrovianus^ Yellow-headed Vulture S. Am.; recorded from Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Panama (Pac. slope, common, may breed). Cathartes aura Turkey Vulture N. Am., West Indies, Mid. Am., S. Am. Gymnogyps californianus California Condor California and formerly Mexico (Baja Calif.). Eamily ACCIPITRIDAE HAWKS Elanus leucurus White-tailed Kite Calif., s. U. S., Mexico (Baja Calif, and Gulf Coast), also S. Am.; winters to Guatemala and Brit. Honduras. Gampsonyx'* swainsonii Pearl Kite W. Nicaragua and n. S. Am. Elanoides forficatus Swallow-tailed Kite S. U. S., Mid. Am. (not reported El Salvador), and S. Am. Leptodon cayanensis^ Gray-iieaded Kite Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Chondrohierax uncinatus Hook-billed Kite Trop. Mid. Am., S. Am., Grenada Harpagus bidentatus Double-toothed Kite Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras and Honduras), and S. Am. Ictinia misisippiensis Mississippi Kite S. U. S.; winters at least to Mexico and Guatemala; recorded Paraguay. Ictinia plumbea ’ Plumbeous Kite Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Rostrhamus sociabilis Everglade or Snail Kite Local in marshes: Fla., Cuba, Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. ® C. urubitinga of many authorities. ■* Peters and Hellmayr and Conover place this genus in Falconidae\ Friedmann is here followed. ‘ Odontriorchis palliatus of many authorities. Accipiter gentilis Northern Goshawk Holarctic regions, in America to mts. of n.w. Mexico. Accipiter bicolor Bicolored Hawk Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Accipiter cooperii Cooper’s Hawk N. Am. and n. Mexico; winters to Guatemala; recorded Costa Rica. Accipiter superciliosus Tiny Hawk Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Accipiter striatus Sharp-shinned Hawk N. Am., Greater Antilles, and highlands of Mexico; winters in Mid. Am. to w. Panama (not reported Brit. Honduras and Honduras). Accipiter chionogaster® White-breasted Hawk Pine woods s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salva- dor and Nicaragua, also mts. of n. S. Am. Heterospizias meridionalis Savanna Hawk Panama and S. Am. Buteo albicaudatus White-tailed Hawk Local, s.w. U. S., Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Buteo regalis Ferruginous Hawk W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Buteo jamaicensis Red-tailed Hawk N. Am., West Indies, and highlands of Mid. Am. to w. Panama; northern birds migrate to Nicaragua, perhaps occasionally to Panama. Buteo albonotatus Zone-tailed H.\wk S.w. U. S., local in Mid. Am. (breeding status uncertain in Costa Rica and Panama; not reported Brit. Honduras) to S. Am. Buteo lineatus Red-shouldered Hawk N. Am. to Mexico. Buteo swainsoni Swainson’s Hawk W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua) to S. Am. Buteo platypterus Broad-winged Hawk N. Am., West Indies; migrates and winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Buteo magnirostris Roadside Hawk Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. •This bird has been treated as a race of A. erythronemius, the Rufous-thighed Hawk, of s. S. Am.; and may be a race of A. striatus, according to Storer. Buteo brachyurus Short-tailed Hawk Local: Florida, Mid. Am. (not reported El Salvador, Honduras), and S. Am. Buteo nitidus Gray Hawk S.w. Lf. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Parabuteo unicinctus B.\y-winged Hawk S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras, Honduras) and S. Am. Leucopternis albicollis White Hawk Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Leucopternis semiplumbea Semiplumbeous Hawk Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Leucopternis plumbea^ Plumbeous Hawk E. Panama to n.w. Peru. Leucopternis princeps Barred Hawk Costa Rica, Panama to Ecuador. Busarellus nigricollis Black-collared Hawk Local: trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Buteogallus anthracinus Common Black Hawk S.w. U. S., Mid. Am., S. Am., Lesser Antilles (St. Vincent). Hypomorphnus* * urubitinga Great Black Hawk Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Harpyhaliaetus® solitarius Solitary Eagle Rare, (chiefly highlands?) Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Morphnus guianensis^“ Crested Eagle Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Harpia harpyja Harpy Eagle Trop. Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras, El Salvador, Honduras) and S. Am. Spizastur melanoleucus Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle^ Trop. Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras, El Salvador) and S. Am. ^ Regarded by Hellmayr and Conover as a race of L. schistacea, the Slate-colored Hawk, of eastern South America. * Hellmayr and Conover use Urubitinga; the genus may yet be merged in Buteo- gallus, according to Amadon. ® A separate genus Urubitornis is by some authors erected for this species; while others make it a race of H. coronalus of s. S. Am. If M. taeniatus, the Banded Crested Eagle (known from Panama to Guiana, Brazil and Bolivia), be a good species, rather than a color phase of AI. guianensis, then the latter may be distinguished by the name Common Crested Eagle. * “Eagle-Hawk” is also used for this and the next genus; but “Hawk-Eagle” seems preferable to conform with the older usage and that in the Old World for the same group. Spizaetus ornatus ’ Ornate Hawk-Eagle ^Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Spizaetus tyrannus Black Hawk-Eagle Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Aquila chrysaetos Golden Eagle Mts. (chiefly) of Eurasia and N. Am. to Mexico. Haliaeetus leucocephalus Bald Eagle N. Am. to n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.; recorded Veracruz). Circus cyaneus Marsh Hawk or White-rumped Harrier Eurasia and N. Am. to Mexico (Baja Calif.); winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Geranospiza nigra^ Blackish Crane-Hawk Trop. Mid. Am. and n.w. S. Am. Family PANDIONIDAE OSPREYS Pandion haliaetus Osprey Old World, N. Am., Cuba, Bahamas, Mexico (Pac. Coast and Yucatan Pen.), and Brit. Honduras; winters, and frequently sum- mers, through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family FALCONIDAE FALCONS Herpetotheres cachinnans Laughing Falcon Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Micrastur semitorquatus Collared Forest-Falcon Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Micrastur mirandollei Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Micrastur ruficollis Barred Forest-Falcon Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Daptrius americanus Red-throated Caracara Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador) and S. Am. Milvago chimachima Yellow-headed Caracara Panama (Pac. slope grasslands) and S. Am. Polyborus cheriway^ Crested Caracara S. U. S., Cuba, Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Polyborus lutosus Guadalupe Caracara Mexico (Guadalupe L); now extinct. ^ If but one species in this genus is recognized, the specific name caerulescens must be used and the “Blackish” in the English name omitted. ^Hellmayr and Conover use Caracara for the genus (but cf. Amadon, Auk 71: 203-4, 1954), and suggest that cheriway may be conspecific with plancus of S. Am. Falco mexicanus Prairie Falcon \V. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters to s. Mexico. Falco peregrinus Peregrine F.a.lcon Old World, N. Am., Mexico (Baja Calif.), s. Chile and Argentina; the N. Am. race, anatum, has been recorded in winter or on migration through Mid. Am. (except Nicaragua) and in S. Am. Falco deiroleucus Orange-breasted Falcon Local: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am.; Mexico (\’eracruz, once). Falco albigularis^“ Bat Falcon Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Falco femoralis Aplomado Falcon Local: s.w. U. S., Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, w. Panama and S. Am. Falco columbarius Pigeon Hawk or Merlin Eurasia and N. Am.; in America winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras and El Salvador) and S. Am. Falco sparverius American Sparrow H.awk or American Kestrel N. Am., West Indies, Mexico, Guatemala, also S. Am.; winters through Mid. x\m. and S. Am. Order GALLI FORMES Family CRACIDAE GUANS AND CURASSOWS Crax rubra Great Curassow Trop. Mid. Am. to Ecuador. Penelope purpurascens Crested Guan Trop. Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Ortalis wagleri Rufocs-bellied Chachal.aca W. Mexico. Ortalis vetula Plain Ch.achalaca S.e. Texas, Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, El SaK'ador, Nicaragua. Ortalis garrula Chestnut-winged Chachal.\ca Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Penelopina nigra Bl.ack Ch.\ch.a.l.aca Mts. s. Mexico (e. Oaxaca, Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Chamaepetes unicolor Black Guan Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. ^ Hellmayr and Conover consider F. rufigularis the correct name. Friedmann is here followed. Horned Guan Oreophasis derbianus Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala. Family PHASIANIDAE PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS Dendrortyx barbatus Bearded Wood-Partridge Mexico (mts. VTracruz). Dendrortyx macroura Long-tailed Wood-Partridge Mexico (mts. Jalisco and Veracruz to Oaxaca). Dendrortyx leucophrys Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salva- dor, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Oreortyx picta Mountain Qu.ail Mts. w. U. S. and Mexico (Baja Calif.). Callipepla squamata Scaled Quail Arid. s.w. U. S. and Mexico (s. to Jalisco and Morelos). Lophortyx californica California Quail Pac. U. S. and n.w. Mexico Lophortyx gambelii Gam eel’s or Desert Quail Deserts s.w. U. S. to n.w. Mexico. Lophortyx douglasii Elegant Quail W. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Jalisco). Philortyx fasciatus Banded Quail Highlands south central Mexico. Colinus virginianus Common Bobwhite N. Am., Cuba, Mexico and Guatemala. Colinus nigrogularis Black-throated Bobwhite Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras, and Caribbean slope of Guatemala, Honduras (Segovia River) and (?) Nicaragua. Colinus leucopogon^ Spot-bellied Bobwhite Highlands and Pacific slope Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Colinus cristatus Crested Bobwhite Panama and n. S. Am. Odontophorus gujanensis Marbled Wood-Quail S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Odontophorus erythrops Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail Caribbean Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Odontophorus leucolaemus White-throated Wood-Quail Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. * Considered forms of the Crested Bobwhite (C. cristatus) by some authorities. Odontophorus guttatus Spotted Wood-Quail Trop. s. Mexico and highlands of Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama. Dactylortyx thoracicus Singing Quail Highlands (chiefly) s. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Hon- duras. Cyrtonyx montezumae Harlequin Quail Highlands s.w. U. S. and Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). Cyrtonyx ocellatus Ocellated Quail Mts. s.w. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicar- agua. Rhynchortyx cinctus Tawny-faced Quail Caribbean Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama (both slopes) and n.w. S. Am. Family MELEAGRIDIDAE TURKEYS Meleagris gallopavo Common Turkey E. and s.w. U. S. and Mexico (chiefly mts.) Agriocharis ocellata Ocellated Turkey Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras and Guatemala (Peten). Order GRUIFORMES Family GRUIDAE CRANES Grus americana Whooping Crane Local: w. Canada; wintering to Gulf coast Mexico. Grus canadensis Sandhill Crane N.e. Siberia, w. and s.e. N. Am., Cuba; winters to Mexico. Family ARAMIDAE LIMPKINS Aramus guarauna Limpkin S. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family RALLIDAE RAILS Rallus elegans King Rail E. N. Am. and Cuba; winters to Mexico. Rallus longirostris® Clapper R.\il U. S., West Indies, Mexico (both coasts and interior marshes), Brit. Honduras, and n. S. Am. ^ The rails of western U.S. and the Pacific coast and interior marshes of Mexico are by some considered races of R. elegans. Perhaps they should be treated as a third species R. obsoletus, Western Rail. Rallus limicola Virginia Rail N. Am. to cent. Mexico, also S. Am.; winters to Guatemala. Pardirallus maculatus Spotted Rail Cuba, Mexico (Chiapas), Brit. Honduras and S. Am. Amaurolimnas concolor Uniform Crake Local: trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Aramides cajanea Gray-necked Wood-Rail Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Aramides axillaris Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Local: trop. Mid. Am. (unrecorded Guatemala and El Salvador), and n. S. Am. Porzana Carolina Sora N. Am. to Mexico (Baja Calif.); recorded in winter from Alexico, Brit. Hond., Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Porzana flaviventer Yellow-breasted Crake Local: Greater Antilles, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and e. S. Am. Laterallus jamaicensis Bl.\ck Rail or Crake Local: U. S., Mexico (Baja Calif.), Jamaica, Peru, Chile; winters to Guatemala. Laterallus exilis Gray-breasted Crake Local: Caribbean Honduras, Nicaragua and n. S. Am. Laterallus albigularis® White-throated Crake Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Laterallus ruber Ruddy Crake Trop. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras and Nicaragua. Coturnicops noveboracensis Yellow Rail Local: N. Am., Mexico (Lerma, Mexico). Gallinula chloropus Common Gallinule Old World, N. Am., West Indies, local Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. ; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Porphyrula martinica Purple Gallinule S. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Fulica americana Americ.\n Coot N. Am., West Indies, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras). * By some deemed conspecific with the wide-ranging L. melanophaius of S. Am. [27] Family HELIORNITHIDAE SUNGREBES Heliornis fulica Sungrebe^ Local: trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Family EURYPYGIDAE SUNBITTERNS Eurypyga helias Sunbittern Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Order CHARADRIIFORMES® Family JACANIDAE JACANAS Jacana spinosa® American Jacana Texas, Greater Antilles, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family HAEMATOPODIDAE OYSTERCATCHERS Haematopus palliatus'“ American Oystercatcher Local: N. Am., West Indies, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Haematopus bachmani'® Bl.4ck Oystercatcher Pac. coast N. Am. to Mexico (n. Baja Calif.). Family CHARADRIIDAE PLOVERS Belonopterus chilensis^ Southern Lapwing S. Am.; a few Panama records. Hoploxypterus cayanus Pied Plover Trop. S. Am.; doubtfully reported from Honduras (Aloor River). Squatarola squatarola Black-bellied Plover Arctic; migrates and winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Pluvialis dominica American Golden Plover Arctic N. Am.; in Am. winters in S. Am., recorded on migration from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama (sight, T. A. Imhof). ’’ Sometimes called .American Finfoot. * In this order, particularly in the families Charadriidae, Scolopacidae and Laridae, many non-breeding individuals, especially immatures, summer within their winter range. ® Birds from central Panama through S. Am. perhaps constitute a distinct species, J. jacana, the Wattled Jacana; if so, J. spinosa may be called Middle American Jacana. Both spinosa and a race of the jacana group (hypomelaena, formerly called nigra) have been taken in w. Panama. Many authorities deem these races of the Common Oystercatcher, H. ostralegus, of the Old World. J Some authorities deem cayennensis the proper specific name. Charadrius semipalmatus^ Semi palm ated Plover Arctic N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Charadrius melodus Piping Plover E. N. Am.; winters to n. Mexico and West Indies. Charadrius alexandrinus Snowy Plover Old World, Pac. and Gulf coasts of U. S., West Indies, Mexico (Baja Calif, and Tamaulipas?), Peru, Chile; winters in Mexico. Charadrius collaris Collared Plover Local: trop. Mid. Am., S. Am., s. Lesser Antilles. Charadrius vociferus Killdeer N. Am., Mexico, West Indies, Peru and n. Chile; winters through Mid. Am. and n.w. S. Am. Charadrius wilsonia Thick-billed Plover S. U. S., West Indies, Mexico, Brit. Honduras, n. S. Am.; migrates in Mid. Am., West Indies, to n. S. Am.; winters (and may possibly breed) in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama. Eupoda montana Mountain Plover Arid plains of w. U. S. ; winters to Mexico. Family SCOLOPACIDAE SNIPE, SANDPIPERS AND ALLIES Bartramia longicauda Upland Plover or Sandpiper N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am., winters in s. S. Am. Numenius borealis Eskimo Curlew Arctic Am.; winters in S. Am.; recorded Mexico and Guatemala; possibly extinct. Numenius phaeopus’’ Whimbrel Arctic regions; in America winters through Mid. Am. (not re- ported Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Numenius americanus Long-billed Curlew W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala; reported from Honduras (sight, fide W. Stone). Limosa haemastica Hudsonian Godwit Canada; migrates through U. S. and West Indies to s. S. Am.; once Mexico (Salina Cruz sight, L. I. Davis, R. A. Herbert). Limosa fedoa Marbled Godwit Int. N. Am.; winters s. U. S. to n. Chile, recorded from Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Panama (sight repeatedly, E. Eisenmann, F. O. Chapelle). 2 Perhaps a race of the Old World C. hialicula -, if so, call Ringed Plover. ’The Middle American birds are the North American hudsonicus, long regarded as a species and called Hudsonian Curlew. Totanus flavipes Lesser Yellowlegs Canada; winters s. U. S. through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Totanus melanoleucus'* * Greater Yellowlegs Canada and Alaska; winters s. U. S. through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Tringa solitaria Solitary Sandpiper N. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Actitis macularia Spotted Sandpiper N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus Willet Local: N. Am., n.e. Mexico; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Heteroscelus incanus Wandering Tattler Alaska; winters chiefly on islands of w. Pacific, also w. Mexico, Costa Rica (Cocos L), Colombia (Malpelo L), Galapagos Is. Aphriza virgata Surfbird Alaska; winters to Pacific coast S. Am., recorded Mexico, Guate- mala, Panama (sight repeatedly, E. Eisenmann, T. A. Imhof, F. O. Chapelle). Arenaria interpres Ruddy Turnstone Arctic regions; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Arenaria melanocephala Black Turnstone Alaska; winters to Mexico (Baja Calif, and Sonora). Limnodromus griseus Common Dowitcher Canada and Alaska; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Limnodromus scolopaceus^ Long-billed Dowitcher N. and w. Alaska; migrates chiefly through w. N. Am. to Mexico and Guatemala. Capella® gallinago Common Snipe Holarctic regions to n. Mexico; the N. Am. form, delicata, winters through Mid. Am. to n. S. Am. Calidris canutus Red Knot Arctic regions; in America winters chiefly on both coasts of s. S. Am.; recorded Mexico, Guatemala (sight, A. W. Anthony), Honduras, Costa Rica (Pac. coast). Crocethia alba Sanderling Arctic regions; winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. Ereunetes pusillus Semipalmated Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. and S. Am. * Tringa melanoleuca of some authorities, who also place T. flavipes in Tringa. ‘Until recently regarded as a race of L. griseus (Auk, 71: 311; Pitelka, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., 50: 1-11). * Gallinago of some authorities; the American form delicata has been known as Wilson’s Snipe. Ereunetes mauri Western Sandpiper Alaska; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras, Honduras) and n. S. Am. Erolia minutilla Least Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Erolia fuscicollis White-rumped Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Guate- mala) to s. S. Am. Erolia bairdii Baird’s Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; recorded on migration Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama; winters in s. S. Am. Erolia melanotos Pectoral S.\ndpiper Arctic N. Am.; winters in s. S. Am., migrates through Mid. Am. Erolia alpina Dunlin Arctic regions; the N. Am. race pacifica’’ winters to Mexico; one record from Nicaragua. Micropalama himantopus ‘ Stilt Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; winters s. S. Am., recorded in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama (sight, R. S. Arbib, F. Loetscher.). Tryngites subruficollis Buff-breasted Sandpiper Arctic N. Am.; winters s. S. Am., recorded Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. Family RECUR VIROSTRIDAE STILTS AND AVOCETS Himantopus mexicanus® Black-necked Stilt U. S., West Indies, locally Mexico and S. Am.; ranges (perhaps breeds) through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras). Recurvirostra americana American Avocet W. N. Am. and n. Mexico; winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Family PHALAROPODIDAE PHALAROPES Phalaropus fulicarius Red Phalarope Arctic regions; in America winters at sea s. to Chile, migrates off Pacific coast of Mexico. Steganopus tricolor Wilson’s Phalarope W. N. Am.; winters in s. S. Am., recorded from Mexico, Guate- mala, El Salvador, Panama (sight, R. S. Arbib, F. Loetscher). ’’ Often called Red-backed Sandpiper. ® By some all Stilts are considered races of the Old World H. himantopus-, if so call simply Stilt. Lobipes lobatus ' Northern Phalarope Arctic regions; in America winters at sea s. to Peru; recorded from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. Family BURHINIDAE THICK-KNEES Burhinus bistriatus Double-striped Thick-knee Arid trop. Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica, also in S. Am. and Hispaniola; (?) Panama (a captive bird). Family STERCORARIIDAE SKUAS AND JAEGERS Catharacta skua*“ Great Skua Arctic, Antarctic, and Sub-Antarctic; chilensis ranges to N. Pac. : Panama (sight, A. Wetmore). Stercorarius pomarinus Pomarine Jaeger Arctic; in America winters at sea to s. S. Am.; recorded off Mexico and Panama (Caribbean, fide C. H. Rogers; sight, Pac. coast R. C. Murphy). Stercorarius parasiticus Par.\sitic Jaeger Arctic; winters at sea to s. S. Am.; recorded off Mexico and Panama (both coasts sight, L. Griscom, R. C. Murphy). Stercorarius longicaudus Long-tailed Jaeger Arctic; winters at sea to s. S. Am.; recorded off Mexico (?), and Panama (Caribbean coast, sight, L. Griscom). Family LARIDAE GULLS AND TERNS Lams modestus Gray Gull Deserts n. Chile and Peru; ranges along Pac. coast S. Am. n. (at least occasionally) to Panama (seen Panama Bay near Canal entrance, R. C. Murphy). Larus heermanni Heermann’s Gull Pac. coast Mexico; ranges to Br. Col. and winters to Pac. Guate- mala. Larus delawarensis Ring-billed Gull Interior n. N. Am.; winters to Mexico (Pac. coast); reported El Salvador (sight, A. \'an Rossem). C. chilensis, the Chilean Skua, breeding at the southern tip of S. .Am., may be a species distinct from the northern C. skua, and there may be sev'eral southern species (R. C. Murphy, Oceanic Birds of South .America, 2: 1006-1010, 1936). Larus argentatus® Herring Gull Europe, n. Asia, n. N. Am.; winters to Mid. Am., on Pac. coast to El Salvador, on Caribbean coast to Panama (not reported Nicaragua and Costa Rica). Larus californicus C.vliforni.\ Gull Interior N. Am.; winters to Me.xico (chiefly Pac. coast). Larus occidentalis'® Western Gull Pac. coast U. S. and Mexico. Larus glaucescens Glaucous-winged Gull Pac. coast n. N. Am. and n.e. Asia; in America winters to Pac. coast Mexico. Larus atricilla Laughing Gull E. and s. U. S., West Indies, Mexico (Yucatan Pen., Sinaloa), Brit. Honduras; winters both coasts Mid. Am. and S. Am. Larus pipixcan Fr.\nklin’s Gull Interior N. Am.; winters chiefly n.w. S. Am.; recorded Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama (both coasts). Larus ridibundus Black-headed or Brown-headed Gull Old World; casual off Atl. coast U. S.; accidental in Mexico (Veracruz). Larus Philadelphia' Bonaparte’s Gull Interior N. Am. ; winters to West Indies and Mexico (both coasts). Rissa tridactyla Black-legged Kittiwake Arctic; in America winters off Atl. coast of U. S. and Pac. coast to Mexico. Creagrus furcatus Swallow-tailed Gull Galapagos Is. and Malpelo I. (off Pac. coast Colombia); casually to Panama (?) (vaguely reported by H. S. Swarth to occur occa- sionally off Pac. coast). Xema sabini Sabine’s Gull Arctic; in America winters off Pac. coast n.w. S. Am.; recorded Mexico (Baja Calif.), Panama (sight, R. C. Murphy). Chlidonias niger Bl.vck Tern Europe, Asia and N. Am. ; migrates through Mid. Am. ; in America winters in Panama and S. Am. ® Nelson’s Gull {L. nelsoni), supposedly a hybrid of this species with the Glaucous Gull (L. hyperboreus), has been taken once off Baja Calif. Some authors would lump this group in L. marinus, the Great Black-backed Gull of the North Atlantic. * Published reports that Col. Grayson collected the Eurasian Little Gull (L. minutus) near Mazatlan on the Pac. coast of Mexico on March 27, 1868 are erroneous; the specimen was L. Philadelphia {fide F. Pitelka and L. C. Stone). Gelochelidon nilotica Gull-billed Tern Local: Old World, s. U. S., West Indies, Mexico, also eastern S. Am. ; in America winters Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, West Indies, and S. Am. Hydroprogne caspia^ Caspian Tern Local: Old World and N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Sterna hirundo Common Tern Old World, N. Am. ; in America winters to S. Am. recorded through Mid. Am. on migration or in winter. Sterna forsteri Forster’s Tern Local: Interior N. Am. and Atl. coast U. S.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Sterna dougallii Roseate Tern Local: Old World, Atl. and Gulf coasts N. Am., West Indies, Brit. Honduras; in America winters from La. and Bahamas to e. S. Am.; accidental Mexico (Ventosa Bay). Sterna anaethetus Bridled Tern Local: Pan-tropical islands. West Indies, Brit. Honduras; re- corded Pac. coast Mexico, Nicaragua (sight, L. Griscom), Costa Rica, Panama. Sterna fuscata Sooty Tern Local: Pan-tropical islands, Florida Keys, West Indies, Mexico (Yucatan Pan., Revilla Gigedo Is.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Clipperton L, Galapagos Is.; recorded Pac. coast Mexico (Baja Calif.), Costa Rica (off Cocos L), Panama. Sterna albifrons Least Tern Old World, U. S., West Indies, Mexico (both coasts), Brit. Hon- duras; in America winters to Guatemala, casually to Nicaragua (sight, L. Griscom), and e. S. Am. Thalasseus maximus Royal Tern S. U. S., West Indies, Mexico, West Africa; in America winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Thalasseus elegans^ Elegant Tern W. Mexico; ranges n. to Calif, and winters off Pac. coast of S. Am. s. to Chile; recorded Pac. coast Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua (sight, L. Griscom). Thalasseus sandvicensis Sandwich or Yellow-nibbed Tern Local: Old World, s. U. S., Bahamas, Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras; in America winters to Mexico (Gulf coast), Guatemala, Honduras, Panama (both coasts). West Indies, S. Am. ^ Some authors use the name tschegrava. ^ Perhaps properly called T. comatus. [34] Anous stolidus Brown Noddy Local: Pan-tropical islands, Florida Keys, West Indies, Mexico (is. off Yucatan Pen. and Pac. coast), Brit. Honduras, Costa Rica (Cocos I.), n.w. Colombia (Octavia Rocks off Pac. coast), Galapagos Is.; recorded Guatemala, Honduras, Panama (Pac. coast, sight, B. B. Sturgis). Anous minutus White-capped Noddy Local: small trop. islands in Pac. and S. Atl. and Caribbean, Clipperton Is. off Pac. coast of Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Costa Rica (Cocos L); ranges in Pac. s. to Colombia. Gygis alba White Tern'* Local: small oceanic islands in trop. Pac., Indian and S. Atl., Clipperton L, Mexico (Revilla Gigedo Is.), Costa Rica (Cocos L), Galapagos Is. Family RYNCHOPIDAE SKIMMERS Rynchops nigra Black Skimmer U. S., Mexico, Guatemala, S. Am.; recorded also El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama (sight, both coasts, L. Griscom, E. Eisen- mann, J. L. Bull), West Indies. Family ALGID AE AUKS, MURRES AND ALLIES Endomychura hypoleuca^ Xantus’s Murrelet Calif, and Mexico (islands off Baja Calif.); ranges off Pac. coast of Mexico. Synthliboramphus antiquus Ancient Murrelet Coasts and islands of Alaska and n.e. Asia; wintering casually to Mexico (Baja Calif.). Ptychoramphus aleuticus Cassin’s Auklet Pac. coast N. Am. to Mexico (islands off Baja Calif.). Cerorhinca monocerata Rhinoceros Auklet Coasts of N. Pac.; in America winters to Mexico (n. Baja Calif.). ^ “Fairy” Tern, sometimes used, is confusing with Sterna nereis, to which that name is applied in Australia where both occur. ® Brachyramphus hypoleucus of some authorities. The form craveri, breeding on islands in the Gulf of Calif., is sometimes regarded as a separate species, called Craven’s Murrelet. [35] Order COLUMB I FORMES Family COLUMBIDAE PIGEONS Columba livia Rock Dove or Domestic Pigeon Old World; domesticated in the New World, semiferal about many Mexican towns. Columba leucocephala White-crowned Pigeon Florida Keys, West Indies, islands off Caribbean coast of Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua and w. Panama; casual mainland of Mexico. Columba flavirostris Red-billed Pigeon Texas and Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to n. Costa Rica. Columba cayennensis Pale-vented Pigeon Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Columba fasciata® Band-t.viled Pigeon Mts. w. N. Am., Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Columba speciosa Scaled Pigeon Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Columba nigrirostris Short-billed Pigeon Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador). Columba subvinacea Ruddy Pigeon Mts. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Columba chiriquensis Chiriqui Pigeon Known only from one spec. Panama (Chiriqui). Ectopistes migratoria^ Passenger Pigeon Extinct: N. Am.; recorded in Mexico and (?) Guatemala. Zenaidura macroura Mourning Dove N. Am., West Indies, in Mid. Am. breeding locally Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, w. Panama; winters through Mid. Am. Zenaidura graysoni Socorro Dove Mexico (Socorro I. in the Revilla Gigedos). Zenaida aurita Zenaida Dove Florida Keys, West Indies, and Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and ad- jacent islands). Zenaida asiatica White-winged Dove Greater Antilles, Bahamas, s.w. U. S., and locally Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) to w. S. Am.; northern birds winter at least to El Salvador. ® Birds from Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. are sometimes regarded as a separate species C. albilinea, \Vhite-naf>ed Pigeon. ^ E. canadensis of some authors. Scardafella inca® Inca Dove S.w. U. S., arid areas of Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to n.w. Costa Rica. Columbigallina passerina Common Ground-Dove S. U. S., West Indies, Mid. Am. to Costa Rica, also S. Am. Columbigallina minuta Plain-breasted Ground-Dove S.e. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, s.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Columbigallina talpacoti Ruddy Ground-Dove Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Claravis pretiosa Blue Ground-Dove Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Claravis mondetoura Maroon-chested Ground-Dove Mts. trop. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and n. S. Am. Leptotila verreauxi White-tipped Dove® S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Leptotila jamaicensis Caribbean Dove Jamaica, Grand Cayman I., St. Andrew’s I., Mexico (Yucatan Pen.). Leptotila plumbeiceps Gr.yy-headed Dove Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama and w. Colombia. Leptotila cassinii Gray-chested Dove Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and Colombia. Geotrygon veraguensis Olive-b.acked Quail-Dove Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Geotrygon lawrencii Purplish-b.ycked Quail-Dove Local: highlands trop. Mexico (Veracruz), Costa Rica and w. Panama. Geotrygon goldmani Russet-crowned Quail-Dove Mts. e. Panama and adjacent Colombia. Geotrygon costaricensis Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama (Pacific slope). Geotrygon violacea Violaceous Quail-Dove Local: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Geotrygon montana Ruddy Quail- Dove Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. and West Indies. ® Considered a subspecies of the S. Am. S. squammata by some. ’"White-fronted” Dove, sometimes used, is misleading for most races. Geotrygon albifacies* *° White-faced Quail-Dove Mts. trop. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Geotrygon chiriquensis*” Rufous-breasted Quail-Dove Mts. Costa Rica and W. Panama. Order PSITTACIFORMES Family PSITTACIDAE PARROTS Ara ararauna Blue-and- yellow Macaw E. Panama and S. Am. Ara militaris Military Macaw Mexico (chiefly mts. and semi-arid areas) and w. S. Am. Ara ambigua Great Green Mac.vw Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Ara macao Scarlet Macaw Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Ara chloroptera Red-blue-and-green Mac.\w E. Panama and S. Am. Ara severa Chestnut-fronted Macaw E. Panama and S. Am. Aratinga holochlora^ Green Parakeet Trop. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Aratinga finschi Crimson-fronted Parakeet Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Aratinga astec Olive-throated Parakeet Gulf and Caribbean slope of trop. Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Aratinga canicularis Or.\nge-fronted Parakeet Pacific slope trop. Mid. Am. to w. Costa Rica. Aratinga pertinax- Brown-throated Parakeet W. Panama (Pac. slope), n. S. Am. and West Indies. Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha Thick-billed Parrot Mts. n.w. Mexico; wandering n. to Arizona and to e. Mexico. Rhynchopsitta terrisi Maroon-fronted Parrot Mts. n.e. Mexico (Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas). Races of G. linearis of e. S. Am., according to some authors; if so, White-faced Quail-Dove may still be used. ^ Birds of the Pacific slope from Oaxaca southward are sometimes considered a separate species A. strenua, Pacific Parakeet, as are those from e. Guatemala south- ward A. rubritorquis, Red-throated Parakeet. * The Panama bird A. ocularis, Veragua Parakeet, has been considered a separate species. [38] Pyrrhura hoffmanni Sulphur-winged Parakeet Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Bolborhynchus lineola Barred Parakeet Mts. s. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, w. Panama . and S. Am. Forpus cyanopygius Blue-rumped Parrotlet N.w. Mexico. Forpus passerinus Blue-winged Parrotlet N. and e. S. Am.; one doubtful Panama record. Forpus conspicillatus Spectacled Parrotlet E. Panama and w. Colombia. Brotogeris jugularis Orange-chinned Parakeet Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and n. S. Am. Touit costaricensis^ Red-fronted Parrotlet Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Touit dilectissima* Blue-fronted Parrotlet Mts. e. Panama and n. S. Am. Pionopsitta haematotis Brown-hooded Parrot Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Pionopsitta pyrilia Saffron-headed Parrot E. Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. Pionus menstruus Blue-headed Parrot Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Pionus senilis White-crowned Parrot Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama. Amazona xantholora Yellow-lored Parrot Mexico (Yucatan Pen.) and Brit. Honduras. Amazona albifrons White-fronted Parrot Chiefly arid trop. areas Mid. Am. to w. Costa Rica. Amazona viridigenalis Red-crowned Parrot N.e. Mexico. Amazona finschi Lilac-crowned Parrot W. Mexico. Amazona autumnalis Red-lored Parrot Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Amazona ochrocephala^ Yellow-headed Parrot Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. ’ If T. costaricensis be treated as a race of T. dilectissima, as is done by some, then the name Red-winged Parrotlet may be used for the species. ■* The wholly yellow-headed birds from most of Me.xico, A. oratrix, have often been regarded as specifically separable from A. auropalliata, ‘‘Yellow-naped’* Parrot, of Oaxaca and Chiapas to n.w. Costa Rica. Birds from Panama southward belong to the true ochrocephala group, which, if the species be subdivided, could be called "Yellow-crowned” Parrot. Amazona farinosa Mealy Parrot Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Order CUCULIFORMES Family CUCULIDAE CUCKOOS Coccyzus erythropthalmus Black-billed Cuckoo N. Am.; on migration recorded through Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador); winters chiefly in n.w. S. Am. Coccyzus americanus Yellow-billed Cuckoo N. Am. and n. Mexico; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras); winters in S. Am. Coccyzus minor Mangrove Cuckoo S. Florida, West Indies, trop. Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Coccyzus lansbergi Gray-capped Cuckoo N.w. S. Am.; one doubtful Panama record. Piaya cayana Squirrel Cuckoo Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Piaya minuta Little Cuckoo Central Panama to S. Am. Crotophaga major Greater Ani Central Panama to S. Am. Crotophaga ani Smooth-billed Ani Florida, West Indies, Mexico (is. off Yucatan Pen.), Honduras (Caribbean is.), Nicaragua (Caribbean is.), s.w. Costa Rica (Pac. slope, rare), Panama, and S. Am. Crotophaga sulcirostris Groove-billed Ani Texas, Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Tapera naevia Striped Cuckoo Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Morococcyx erythropygus Lesser^ Ground-Cuckoo Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to w. Costa Rica. Dromococcyx phasianellus Phe.as.\nt Cuckoo Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Geococcyx californianus Gre.\ter Roadrunner S.w. U. S. to cent. Mexico. Geococcyx veIox^“ Lesser Roadrunner W. and s. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, n. Nicar- agua. ® V'an Rossem criticized as misleading Ridgway’s name ‘‘Rufous-rumped” Cuckoo. ^“According to Stresemann viaticus may hav'e priority (Condor, 1954: 90). Neomorphus geoffroyi Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Order STRIGIFORMES Family TYTONIDAE BARN OWLS Tyto alba Barn Owl Practically cosmopolitan, N. Am., West Indies, Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras), S. Am. Mts. w. N. Am., Mexico and Guatemala. Otus asio Common Screech-Owl N. Am. to Central Plateau of Mexico. Otus vinaceus^ Vinaceous Screech-Owl Pacific coast of Mexico (s.w. Sonora to Guerrero). Otus trichopsis • Spotted Screech-Owl Mts. Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Otus barbarus Bearded Screech-Owl Mts. n. Guatemala. Otus guatemalae* * Vermiculated Screech-Owl Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Otus cooperi® Pacific Screech-Owl Arid Pacific slope s. Mexico (Chiapas) to n.w. Costa Rica. Otus choliba Tropical Screech-Owl Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Otus clarkii Bare-shanked’® Screech-Owl Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Lophostrix cristata Crested Owl Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras and Honduras), and S. Am. Bubo virginianus Great Horned Owl N. Am., Mid. Am. (chiefly in mts.), and S. Am. ® By some considered a race of the Old World 0. scops. Common Scops-Owl. ’ By some treated as conspecitic with O. asio. * Some consider birds from Costa Rica, Panama and S. .Am. to be a separate species, 0. vermiculatus. On that view the birds from Mexico to Nicaragua may be called Middle American Screech-Owl. * Van Rossem suggests this is conspecilic with 0. choliba. '“There is another Otus called “Bare-legged”. Clarkii was formerly called nudipes. Family STRIGIDAE OWLS Otus flammeolus® Flammulated Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata Spectacled Owl Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Glaucidium gnoma Northern Pygmy-Owl W. N. Am. and mts. Mexico and Guatemala. Glaucidium minutissimum Least Pygmy-Owl Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Nicaragua and El Salvador), and S. Am. Glaucidium jardinii Andean Pygmy-Owl Mts. Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Glaucidium brasilianum Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Micrathene whitneyi Elf Owl Deserts s.w. U. S. and Mexico. Speotyto cunicularia Burrowing Owl Local: U. S., Bahamas, Hispaniola, Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras and Nicaragua), and S. Am. Ciccaba virgata Mottled Owl Trop. Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Ciccaba nigrolineata Black-and-white OtvL Trop. Mid. Am. and n.w. S. Am.' Strix occidentalis Spotted Owl W. N. Am. and mts. w. and n. Mexico from Sonora and Nuevo Leon s. to Michoacan. Strix varia Barred Omx E. and s. N. Am. and mts. cent. Mexico from Durango to Oaxaca and Veracruz. Strix fulvescens^ Fulvous Owl Mts. s. Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Rhinoptynx clamator Striped Out. Local: trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras, Honduras) and S. Am. Asio otus Long-eared Owl Eurasia, N. Am., n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to central Mexico. Asio stygius Stygian Owl Local: Greater Antilles, mts. Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, S. Am. Asio flammeus Short-eared Owl N. Eurasia, N. Am., Greater Antilles, S. Am.; northern birds winter to IVIexico and Guatemala. By some considered a race of S', varia. [42] Aegolius acadicus Northern Saw-whet Owl N. Am. and mts. of Mexico to Veracruz and Oaxaca. Aegolius ridgwayi Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica. Order CAPRIMULGIFORMES Family NYCTIBIIDAE POTOOS Nyctibius grandis Great Potoo Cent. Panama s. to S. Am. Nyctibius griseus Common Potoo Greater Antilles, trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family CAPRIMULGIDAE NIGHTJARS Lurocalis semitorquatus Semi-collared Nighthawk Local: Nicaragua, Panama and S. Am. Chordeiles acutipennis Lesser Nighthawk S.w. U. S., Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras (Bay Is.?), Nicaragua, S. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters s. to S. Am. Apparently present year-round in Panama, possibly breeding. Chordeiles minor Common Nighthawk N. Am., West Indies, Mexico (s. to Veracruz, Chiapas); migrates , through Mid. Am.; winters in S. Am. Nyctidromus albicollis Pauraque S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Phalaenoptilus nuttallii Common Poorwill W. N. Am. and w. Mexico. Otophanes mcleodii Eared Poorwill Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco and Guerrero). Otophanes yucatanicus Yucat.\n Poorwill Mexico (Yucatan Pen.) and Guatemala (Peten). Nyctiphrynus ocellatus Ocellated Poorwill Nicaragua (one spec.), and S. Am. Caprimulgus carolinensis Chuck- will’s- widow S.e. U. S.; winters to Greater Antilles, through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras), and Colombia. Caprimulgus rufus Rufous Nightjar Costa Rica, Panama, St. Lucia, and S. Am. Caprimulgus salvinp Tawny-collared Nightjar E. Trop. Mexico, Brit. Honduras and n. Nicaragua. Caprimulgus ridgwayi Buff-collared Nightjar \V. Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Caprimulgus vociferus W'HIP-poor-will E. N. Am. and in mts. of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras; northern birds winter through Mid. Am. to Costa Rica. Caprimulgus saturatus Dusky Nightjar Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Caprimulgus cayennensis White-tailed Nightjar Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Caprimulgus maculicaudus Spot-tailed Nightjar Recorded Mexico (Oaxaca, \ eracruz and Chiapas) and S. Am. Order A POD I FORMES Family APODIDAE SWIFTS Streptoprocne zonaris \AMite-collared Swift Highlands Greater Antilles, Mid. Am., and S. Am. Streptoprocne semicollaris White-naped Swift Mts. w. and cent. Mexico; seen Chiapas (M. Alvarez del Toro). Chaetura chapmani Dark-bre.\sted Swift N. S. Am.; recorded in Panama. Chaetura pelagica Chimney Swift E. N. -Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Honduras and El Salvador); winters in S. Am. Chaetura vauxi Vaux’s Swift N. w. N. Am. s. to cent. Calif.; winters to Louisiana, Mexico and Guatemala. Chaetura richmondi^ Dusky-backed Swift Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and n. S. Am. Chaetura gaumeri^ Yucatan Swift Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel I.). Chaetura cinereiventris Gray-ru.mped Swift Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica, w. Panama, S. Am., Lesser Antilles (Grenada). Chaetura spinicauda^ Band-rumped Swift Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. 2 Considered by Peters conspecific with C. serico-caudalis, of uncertain origin. ^Treated by many as races of C. vauxi, \’aux’s Swift (Sutton, Wilson Bull. 53: 231-233, 1941), but the distance from the breeding range of that form raises doubt. ^ Includes C. fumosa of Costa Rica and Panama. Chaetura andrei Asiiy-tailed Swift S. Am.; recorded once from Panama. Cypseloides^ rutilus Ciiestnut-coll.vked Swift Mts. w. and s. Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Cypseloides cherriei Spot-fronted Swift Recorded from Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela. Cypseloides cryptus White-chinned Swift Recorded from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Cypseloides niger Black Swift W. N. Am., mts. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, West Indies. Aeronautes saxatalis White-throated Swift Mts. w. N. Am., Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Panyptila sancti-hieronymi® Great Swallow-tailed Swift Mts. s. Mexico (Michoacan, Chiapas), w. Guatemala, Honduras, w. Nicaragua (near Jalapa, fide T. R. Powell, G. Montrello). Panyptila cayennensis Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Mexico (Veracruz), Caribbean slope, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama (both slopes) and S. Am. Family TROCHILIDAE HUMMINGBIRDS Doryfera ludovicae Green-fronted Lanceihll Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am. Androdon aequatorialis Tooth-billed Hummingbird E. Panama and Pac. slope Colombia and Ecuador. Glaucis aenea^ Bronzy Hermit Nicaragua, Costa Rica (both slopes) and Pac. slope w. Panama (Chiriqui), w. Colombia, n.w. Ecuador. Glaucis hirsuta Rufous-bre.vsted Hermit Cent, and e. Panama through most of trop. S. Am., s. Lesser Antilles (Grenada). Threnetes ruckeri Band-tailed Barbthro.\t Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Phaethornis guy Green Hermit Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. ® Peters puts this in Chaetura, and some authors in a separate genus Chaeturella\ Zimmer is here followed. ® Stresemann suggests that this may be a race of P. cayennensis. ’’ Perhaps a race of G. hirsuta, as Peters treats it. Long-tailed Hermit Phaethomis superciliosus* Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Phaethomis anthophilus Pale-bellied Hermit Panama (Pearl Is.), Colombia and w. Venezuela. Phaethomis longuemareus Little Hermit IP?' Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Eutoxeres aquila White-tipped Sicklebill Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Phaeochroa cuvierii Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, n. Colombia. Campylopterus curvipennis® Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Trop. e. Mexico and Guatemala. Campylopterus rufus Rufous Sabrewing Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala and El Salvador. Campylopterus hemileucurus Violet Sabrewing Highlands s. Mexico through Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Florisuga mellivora White-necked Jacobin Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Colibri delphinae Brown Violet-ear Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Colibri thalassinus^® Green Violet-ear Highlands Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras, Nicaragua) and S. Am. Anthracothorax prevostii Green-breasted Mango Trop. Mid. Am. (except Panama) to n. Costa Rica, n.w. Venezuela, Old Providence and St. Andrew’s Is. in Caribbean. Anthracothorax veraguensis^ Veraguan Mango W. Panama (Pac. slope Chiriqui and Veraguas). Anthracothorax nigricollis Black-throated Mango Cent. Panama to S. Am. Klais guimeti Violet-headed Hummingbird Highlands Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. * Zimmer considers the Middle American and most South American forms to be races of P. malaris (of Cayenne), and not of P. superciliosus. The English name given is intended to apply to the Middle American birds, regardless of their technical name. ® The form from s. Veracriu, C. excellens, Long-tailed Sabrewing, may be a distinct species. Includes the C. cyanotus group of Costa Rica to S. Am., regarded by some as a separate species. Mountain Violet-ear. ‘ Possibly a race of A. prevostii. Abeillia abeillei Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Mts. s.e. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and n. Nicaragua. Lophornis delattrei Rufous-crested Coquette Mexico (s.w. Guerrero), s.w. Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. Paphosia^ helenae . Black-crested Coquette Caribbean slope trop. Mid. Am. to Costa Rica. Paphosia adorabilis White-crested Coquette Cent, and s.w. Costa Rica to s.w. Panama. Popelairia conversii Green Thorntail Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Chlorostilbon canivetii^ Eork- tailed Emerald Trop. Mid. Am. and Caribbean coast of S. Am. Cynanthus sordidus Dusky Hummingbird S.w. Mexico. Cynanthus latirostris Broad-billed Hummingbird S.w. U. S. and Mexico. Thalurania colombica^ Blue-crowned Woodnymph Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), in Mexico reported only from Jalisco; also Colombia. Thalurania fannyi^ Green-crowned Woodnymph E. Panama and w. Colombia and Ecuador. Panterpe insignis Fiery-throated Hummingbird Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Damophila® julie Violet-bellied Hummingbird Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Lepidopyga coeruleogularis Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Costa Rica, Panama and n. Colombia. Hylocharis xantusii Black-fronted Hummingbird Mexico (s. Baja Calif.). ^ This genus (and sometimes also Popelairia) is often merged in the genus Lophornis. ^ Birds from s.w. Costa Rica and Panama are often regarded as a separate species, C. assimilis, Garden Emerald. If so treated, the South American population must also be separated from C. canivetii. Zimmer lumps all these forms with C. mellisugus of Cayenne; if this view is followed Common Emerald is the best name, as typical mellisugus has the tail truncate, not forked. ^ Considered by Peters, Zimmer and Blake to be races of T. furcata, Common Woodnymph, of e. S. Am. Some authors lump only the glittering-crowned forms (including fannyi), of Mid. Am. and n.w. Colombia and Ecuador, in T. colomhica, which may be called Crowned Woodnymph. ® Juliamyia juliae of some authors. Hylocharis leucotis White-eared Hummingbird Highlands and mts. s. Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Hylocharis eliciae Blue-throated Goldentail Trop. Mid. Am. Hylocharis grayi Blue-headed Sapphire E. Panama (Darien) and n.w. S. Am. Goldmania violiceps Violet-capped Hummingbird E. Panama. Goethalsia bella Rufous-cheeked Hummingbird E. Panama (Darien). Amazilia Candida White-bellied Emerald Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to Costa Rica. Amazilia luciae Honduras Emerald Honduras. Amazilia amabilis® Blue-chested Hummingbird Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Amazilia boucardi Mangrove Hummingbird Costa Rica (Pac. coast). Amazilia cyanocephala Red-billed Azurecrovvn Mts. s.e. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, Nicaragua. Amazilia microrhyncha Small-billed Azurecrovvn Honduras ?. Known only from the type. Amazilia cyanifrons Blue-fronted Hummingbird Costa Rica (one spec.), Colombia. Amazilia beryllina Berylline Hummingbird Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Amazilia cyanura Blue-tailed Hummingbird Pac. slope s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, Nicaragua; once in Costa Rica. Amazilia saucerrottei Blue-vented Hummingbird W. and s. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, also Colombia and Vene- zuela. Amazilia edward^ Snowy-breasted Hummingbird Costa Rica and Panama. * Includes A. decora, Charming Hummingbird, Pacific slope s.w. Costa Rica and w. Panama, regarded by some as a distinct species. ’’ Includes niveoventer of Costa Rica and w. Panama, by some held to be a species distinct from A. edward. The edward group has been called White-bellied Humming- bird. Amazilia rutila Cinnamon Hummingbird Mid. Am. from s. Me.xico (Chiapas) to cent. Costa Rica. Amazilia yucatanensis Fawn-breasted Hummingbird S. Texas, Mexico, Guatemala and Brit. Honduras. Amazilia tzacatl Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), Colombia and Ecuador. Amazilia violiceps® Violet-crowned Hummingbird W. and s. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Chiapas); accidental in Arizona. Amazilia viridifrons* * Green-fronted Hummingbird S. Mexico (Guerrero to Chiapas). Eupherusa eximia^ Stripe-tailed Hummingbird Highlands Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) from s. Mexico to w. Panama. Eupherusa nigriventris Black-bellied Hummingbird Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Elvira chionura White-tailed Emerald Highlands s.w. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Elvira cupreiceps Coppery-headed Emerald Caribbean slope Costa Rica. Microchera albo-coronata Snowcap Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Chalybura buffonii White-vented Plumeleteer Cent. Panama to n.w. S. Am. Chalybura melanorrhoa*” Dusky Plumeleteer Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica and extreme n.w. Panama. Chalybura urochrysia Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Panama and n.w. S. Am. Lampornis clemenciae Blue-throated Hummingbird Mts. s.w. U. S. and Mexico. Lampornis amethystinus Amethyst-thro.ated Hummingbird Mts. trop. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Lampornis viridi-pallens Green-throated Mountain-gem Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua. Lampornis hemileucus White-bellied Mountain-gem Highlands Caribbean slope Costa Rica and w. Panama. * Peters regards viridifrons as the immature plumage of violiceps. An earlier name of violiceps may be verticalis (Stresemann, Condor, 1954; 91). * Includes E. poliocerca, White-tailed Hummingbird, of s.w. Mexico, which may be entitled to specific status. This may be a race of C. urochrysia. Lampomis calolaema^ Purple-throated Mountain-gem Highlands w. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama (e. to \’eraguas). Lampornis castaneoventris^ White-throated Mountain-gem Highlands w. Panama (w. Chiriqui). Lampornis cinereicauda^ Gray-tailed Mountain-gem Mts. Costa Rica and (?) w. Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui, fide Ridgway, but Peters duhitante). Lamprolaima rhami Garnet-throated Hummingbird Mts. s. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Heliodoxa jacula Green-crowned Brilliant Highlands Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Eugenes fulgens- Magnificent Hummingbird Mts. s.w. U. S. and Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Haplophaedia aureliae Greenish Puffleg Highlands e. Panama (Darien) and w. S. Am. Heliothrix barroti^ . Purple-crowned Fairy Trop. Mid. Am. (except Mexico and El Salvador) to Colombia and Ecuador. Heliomaster constanti Plain-capped Starthro.at Pac. coast trop. Mid. Am. to Costa Rica. Heliomaster longirostris Long-billed Starthroat Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras)j and S. Am. Philodice bryantae Magenta-throated Woodstar Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Doricha enicura Slender Sheartail Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Doricha eliza Mexican Sheartail S. e. Mexico (Veracruz and Yucatan Pen.). ' The relationship among these forms (sometimes segregated in a genus Oreopyra) is uncertain. Berlioz suggests that all three are partly localized color phases of one species. Most authors treat calolaema as a subspecies of castaneoventris\ yet both occur together in w. Chiriqui. Hartert and Blake suggest that the subspecies of castaneoventris is cinereicauda. On that view, occasional Costa Rican birds of cas- taneoventris type might be explained as hybrids between calolaema and cinereicauda, or as mutants of the latter. If two or more of these forms is included in castaneo- ventris, it may be best to call the complex Chestnut-bellied iMountain-gem. 2 Includes E. spectabilis of Costa Rica and Panama, called the Admirable Hum- mingbird. The northern form has been called Rivoli’s Hummingbird. ^ Zimmer considers this a race of the green-crowned South American H. aurita, Black-eared Fairy, which may be used for the entire complex. [50] Tilmatura dupontii Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird Highlands (chiefly) s. and cent. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Calothrax lucifer Lucifer Hummingbird S.w. U. S. and highlands of s. cent, and s. Mexico. Calothrax pulcher Beautiful Hummingbird S. Mexico (Guerrero to Chiapas). Archilochus colubris Ruby-throated Hummingbird E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. Archilochus alexandri Black-chinned Hummingbird W. N. Am. to n. Mexico; winters through Mexico. Calypte anna Anna’s Hummingbird Calif, and n. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to w. Mexico. Calypte costae Costa’s Hummingbird W. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif, and Sonora); winters to n.w. Mexico (Sirraloa). Stellula calliope Calliope Hummingbird Mts. w. N. Am. and w. Mexico (Baja Calif, and Guerrero); winters in Mexico. Atthis heloisa Bumblebee Hummingbird Mts. Mexico (Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to Oaxaca and Veracruz); accidental in Arizona. Atthis elliotL Wine-throated Hummingbird Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala and Honduras. Acestrura heliodor Gorgeted Woodstar Highlands e. Panama (Cana, Darien one spec, fide J. Bond) and n.w. S. Am. Selasphorus platycercus Broad-tailed Hummingbird Mts. w. U. S., Mexico and Guatemala. Selasphorus rufus Rufous Hummingbird W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Selasphorus sasin Allen’s Hummingbird Calif.; winters to n.w. and cent. Mexico. Selasphorus flammula Rose-throated Hummingbird High mts. Costa Rica. Selasphorus torridus® Heliotrope-throated Hummingbird High mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui). Selasphorus simoni® Cerise-throated Hummingbird Highlands of Costa Rica. * Frequently considered conspecific with A. heloisa. ^ By some believed to be a color phase of S. flammula. If this be so, the species may be known as the Volcano Hummingbird. ® Possibly a race of S. ardens. [51] Selasphorus ardens Glow- throated Hummingbird Highlands w. Panama. Selasphorus scintilla Scintillant Hummingbird Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Order TROGON I FORMES Family TROGONIDAE TROGONS Pharomachrus mocinno Quetzal Mts. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras), from Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) to w. Panama. Pharomachrus auriceps’ Golden-headed Trogon Mts. e. Panama (Darien), w. and n. S. Am. Euptilotis neoxenus Eared Trogon Mts. central Mexico (Chihuahua to Michoacan). Trogon massena Slaty-tailed Trogon Trop. Mid. Am., Colombia and Ecuador. Trogon clathratus Lattice-tailed T rogon Caribbean coast Costa Rica and w. Panama. Trogon melanurus Black-tailed Trogon Cent. Panama to S. Am. Trogon viridis* * White-tailed Trogon S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Trogon citreolus Citreoline Trogon Trop. Mid. Am. to n. Costa Rica. Trogon mexicanus Mountain Trogon Highlands Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras. Trogon elegans® Elegant Trogon S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) to n.w. Costa Rica. Trogon collaris Bar-tailed Trogon Highlands trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Trogon aurantiiventris Orange-bellied Trogon Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Trogon rufus Black-thro.\ted Trogon S.e. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. ^ By some deemed a race of the Amazonian P. pavoninus, Pavonine Trogon. * T. strigilatus of some authorities; includes bairdi, Baird’s Trogon, of s.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama. * Includes T. ambiguus, the Coppery-tailed Trogon of Me.\ico; Cent. .American birds lack any coppery tail color. Trogon violaceus Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. VIOLACEOUS T ROGON Order CORACI I FORMES Family ALCEDINIDAE KINGFISHERS Ceryle* *“ torquata Ringed Kingfisher Mid. Am., Lesser Antilles, and S. Am. , Ceryle alcyon Belted Kingfisher N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to n. S. Am. Chloroceryle amazona Amazon Kingfisher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Chloroceryle americana Green Kingfisher S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Chloroceryle inda Green-and-rufous Kingfisher Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Chloroceryle aenea Pygmy Kingfisher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family MOMOTIDAE MOTMOTS Hylomanes momotula Tody Motmot Trop. Mid. Am. and n.w. Colombia. Aspatha gularis Blue-throated Motmot Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Electron platyrhynchum Broad- billed Motmot E. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Electron carinatum Keel-billed Motmot Caribbean slope Mid. Am. from s. Mexico to n. Costa Rica. Eumomota superciliosa Turquoise-browed Motmot Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) to n.w. Costa Rica. Baryphthengus ruficapillus Rufous Motmot Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Momotus mexicanus Russet-crowned Motmot W. Mexico (Sonora to Chiapas) and Guatemala (arid interior). Momotus momota* Blue-crowned Motmot Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. This and the next species are often placed in a separate genus, Megaceryle. * Birds from the Pacific slope of cent, and e. Panama to n. Venezuela are by some regarded as a distinct species, M. subrufescens, the Tawny-bellied Motmot. Birds from Mexico to w. Panama belong to the M. lessoni group. Order PICIFORMES Family GALBULIDAE JACAMARS Brachygalba salmoni Dusky-backed Jacamar E. Panama (Darien) and n.w. Colombia. Galbula ruficauda^ Rufous-tailed Jacamar Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama, and S. Am. Jacamerops aurea Great Jacamar Carribean slope Costa Rica, Panama (both slopes) and S. Am. Family BUCCONIDAE PUFFBIRDS White-necked Puffbird Notbarcbus macro rbyncbos Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Notbarcbus pectoraUs Cent. Panama to n.w. S. Am. Notbarcbus tectus Costa Rica, Panama, to S. Am. Nystalus radiatus Cent. Panama to n.w. S. Am. Malacoptila panamensis Trop. Mid. Am. (e.xcept El Salvador) and S. Am. Micromonacba lanceolata Lanceolated Monklet Rare: Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Nonnula frontaUs-’ Gray-cheeked Nunlet Cent. Panama to Colombia. Monasa morpboeus White-fronted Nunbird Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Black-breasted Puffbird Pied Puffbird Barred Puffbird White-whiskered Puffbird Family CAPITONIDAE BARBETS Capito maculicoronatus Spot-crowned Barbet Cent. Panama to Colombia. Eubucco bourcierii Red-headed Barbet Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Semnornis frantzii Prong-billed Barbet Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. 2 Includes melanogenia, the Middle American form ranging to w. Ecuador, formerly regarded as a separate species, Black-chinned Jacamar. ^ Considered by de Schauensee conspecific with N. ruficapilla, ranging to Peru. Family RAMPHASTIDAE TOUCANS Aulacorhynchus prasinus Emerald Toucanet Highlands s. Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Aulacorhynchus caeruleogularis"* Blue-throated Toucanet Highlands of Costa Rica and Panama. Pteroglossus torquatus Collared Ara^ari Trop. Mid. Am., Colombia and Venezuela. Pteroglossus frantzii^ Fiery-billed Ara^ari Pacific slope Costa Rica and w. Panama. Selenidera spectabilis Yellow- eared Toucanet Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. w. Colombia. Ramphastos sulfuratus Keel-billed Toucan Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n. S. Am. Ramphastos swainsonii Chestnut-mandibled Toucan Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Ramphastos ambiguus Black-mandibled Toucan E. Panama and n. S. Am. Family PICIDAE WOODPECKERS Picumnus olivaceus Olivaceous Piculet E. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Colaptes cafer® Red-shafted Flicker W. N. Am. and highlands Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, n. Nicaragua. Colaptes chrysoides® Gilded Flicker Deserts s.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif., Sonora and n. Sinaloa). Chrysoptilus punctigula Spot-breasted Woodpecker E. Panama (Darien) and S. Am. Piculus auricularis Gray-crowned Woodpecker W. Mexico (Sonora to Guerrero). Piculus aeruginosus Bronze-winged Woodpecker Trop. n.e. Mexico (s. Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to Veracruz and Puebla). ■* Often considered conspecilic with A. prasinus, as well as certain S. Am. forms; on that view call the complex Emerald Toucanet. ® Peters treats it as a race of P. torquatus. ® All North American Flickers may be races of C. auratus; if so, call Common Flicker. Piculus rubiginosus Golden-olive Woodpecker Trop. Mid. Am. (in much of its range chiefly in highlands), and S. Am. Piculus simplex Rufous-winged Woodpecker Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Piculus callopterus^ Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker Cent, and e. Panama. Piculus chrysochloros Golden-green Woodpecker E. Panama (Darien) to S. Am. Celeus castaneus Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Trop. s.e. Mexico and Caribbean slope of Mid. Am. to n.w. Panama. Celeus immaculatus Immaculate Woodpecker Panama (?). Unique spec, believed by describer to be of Panama “make”. Celeus loricatus Cinnamon Woodpecker S.e. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Dryocopus lineatus Lineated Woodpecker Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Asyndesmus lewis Lewis’s Woodpecker W. N. Am.; winters to n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif, and n. Sonora). Melanerpes formicivorus Acorn Woodpecker W. U. S. and highlands of Mid. Am. to w. Panama, also Colombia. Centurus* * uropygialis® Gila or Desert Woodpecker S.w. U. S. (deserts) and w. Mexico (south to Jalisco). Centurus hypopolius Gray-breasted Woodpecker Arid s.w. and cent. Mexico (Mexico to Guerrero and Oaxaca). Centurus aurifrons Golden-fronted Woodpecker Texas and Mid. Am. to Costa Rica. Centurus chrysogenys Golden-cheeked Woodpecker W. Mexico. Centurus rubricomus*” Red-vented Woodpecker Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel I.), Honduras (Bonacca I.). Centurus rubricapillus Red-crowned Woodpecker S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. ’ Peters treats this as a race Of leucolaetnus, a west .Amazonian species. Yet callopterus seems much more closely allied to P. simplex, which Peters keeps as a separate species. * Peters merges Centurus (including Tripsurus) in Melanerpes. * Peters and Blake treat this bird as conspecific with the Mexican hypopolius. Regarded by Peters as conspecific with the next species. The old specific name, rubriventris, must be replaced by rubricomus if Centurus and Tripsurus are merged in one genus. Centurus' pucherani Black-cheeked Woodpecker Trop. Mid. Am. (exce{)t El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Centurus* chrysauchen Golden-naped Woodpecker S.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama.^ Sphyrapicus varius Yellow-bellied Sapsucker N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Panama. Sphyrapicus ruber^ Red-bre.\sted Sapsucker Pac. coast of N. Am.; winters to n. Mexico (Baja Calif.). Sphyrapicus thyroides Williamson’s Sapsucker W. N. Am.; winters to w. Mexico. Veniliornis fumigatus Smoky-brown Woodpecker Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Veniliornis kirkii Red-rumped Woodpecker S.w. Costa Rica. Panama and n. S. Am. Dendrocopos villosus Hairy Woodpecker N. Am., Bahamas, mts. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to w. Panama. Dendrocopos nuttallii Nuttall’s Woodpecker Calif, and Mexico (n.w. Baja Calif.). Dendrocopos scalaris Ladder-b.acked Woodpecker Arid s.w. U. S., Mexico, Brit. Honduras, and Honduras. Dendrocopos arizonae^ Brown-b.\cked Woodpecker Mts. s.w. U. S. and w. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Michoacan). Dendrocopos stricklandi Brown-barred Woodpecker Mts. cent, and s.e. Mexico (Michoacan to Veracruz). Phloeoceastes guatemalensis Pale-billed Woodpecker Trop. Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Phloeoceastes melanoleucos Crimson-crested Woodpecker Cent. Panama to S. Am. Phloeoceastes haematogaster^ Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Panama and w. S. Am. Campephilus imperialis Imperial Woodpecker Mexico (Sierra Madre Occidental, from Sonora and Chihuahua to Michoacan). * These species were formerly placed in a separate genus, Tripsurus. ^ The Colombian T. pulcher is by some deemed a race of chrysauchen. ’ Often treated as conspecific with S. varius. J. Davis suggests that arizonae is conspecific with D. stricklandi. If so, Brown- backed VV^oodpecker may be used for both. ^ The Panama and lowland S. Am. form splendens is by some considered a distinct species. Splendid Woodpecker. Order PASSERIFORMES® Family DENDROCOLAPTIDAE WOODCREEPERS^ Dendrocincla fuliginosa® PLAIN-BRO^\"N Woodcreeper S.e. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Dendrocincla anabatina Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama. Dendrocincla homochroa Ruddy Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and Venezuela. Deconychura longicauda Long- tailed Woodcreeper Nicaragua, s.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Sittasomus griseicapillus Olivaceous Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Glyphorynchus spirurus Wedge-billed Woodcreeper® Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus Strong-billed Woodcreeper Highlands trop. Mid. Am. to w. Panama, also S. Am. Dendrocolaptes certhia Barred Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Dendrocolaptes picumnus Black-banded Woodcreeper Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am. Xiphorhynchus picus^® Straight-billed Woodcreeper Central Panama (Pacific coast) and S. Am. Xiphorhynchus guttatus Buff-thro.\ted Woodcreeper Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and S. Am. Xiphorhynchus flavigaster Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica. Xiphorhynchus striatigularis Stripe-thro.\ted Woodcreeper Mexico (Tamaulipas, one spec.). ® What families should be recognized and how the many genera should be allocated have been much disputed recently (see Mayr and .^madon, Am. Mus. Nov., no. 1496, 1952; Wetmore, Smith. Misc. Coll., 117 no. 4, 1952; Beecher, Auk, 70: 270-333, 1953; Tordoff, Auk, 71: 273-284, 1954). ^ The misnomer “Woodhewer,” a translation of the technical name, has often been used. * The name meruloides is often used for the Middle .American forms, fuliginosa of e. S. -Am. being regarded as a distinct species (see Todd, .Ann. Cam. Mus. 31(2): 17, 1948). ® The unmodified name “Wedge-bill”, sometimes used, creates unnecessary confusion with a genus of hummingbirds to which that group-name applies. The Panama form belongs to the picirostris group of arid n. S. -Am., sometimes regarded as a separate species. This species is often placed in a separate genus Dendroplex. Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus Black-striped Woodcreeper E. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Xiphorhynchus erythropygius^ Spotted Woodcreeper Chiefly highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras), Co- lombia and Ecuador. Lepidocolaptes leucogaster White-striped Woodcreeper W. and cent. Mexico. Lepidocolaptes souleyetii Streak-headed Woodcreeper Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Lepidocolaptes affinis Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) tow. Panama.^ Campylorhamphus trochilirostris Red-billed Scythebill^ Cent. Panama to S. Am. Campylorhamphus pusillus Brown-billed Scythebill Costa Rica and w. Panama, also Colombia and Ecuador. Family FURNARIIDAE OVENBIRDS, SPINETAILS AND ALLIES Synallaxis albescens Pale-bre.\sted Spinetail S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Synallaxis brachyura Slaty Spinetail E. Honduras, e. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Synallaxis erythrothorax Rufous-breasted Spinetail S. Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, El Salvador and Honduras. Cranioleuca erythrops Red-faced Spinetail Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Xenerpestes^ minlosi Double-banded Softtail E. Panama (Darien) and Colombia. Margarornis bellulus Beautiful Treerunner Mts. e. Panama (Darien). Margarornis rubiginosus Ruddy Treerunner Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Premnoplex brunnescens Spotted Barbtail Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. * Birds from s.e. Nicaragua to w. Ecuador, the aequatorialis group, found chiefly in the lowlands, are sometimes deemed a separate species, Spot-throated Wood- creeper. Hellmayr treats all as races of the S. Am. triangularis. ^ Peters includes in this species the lacrymiger group of S. Am. ^ "Sicklebill”, sometimes used for this genus, is the name of a genus of humming- birds Eutoxeres, supra. It is uncertain whether this little-known genus should be included in Furnariidae. Pseudocolaptes lawrencii^ Buffy Tuftedcheek Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Hyloctistes subulatus Striped Woodhaunter Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. Syndac^la® subalaris Lineated Foliage-gleaner Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. Anabercerthia variegaticeps^ Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Highlands trop. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Philydor erythrocercus® Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner Panama and S. Am. Philydor rufus Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Automolus rubiginosus® Ruddy Foliage-gleaner Highlands Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Automolus ochrolaemus'® Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Thripadectes rufobrunneus Streak-breasted Treehunter Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Xenops rutilans Streaked Xenops Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Xenops minutus Plain Xenops Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Sclerurus albigularis Gray-thkoated Leafscraper Costa Rica and w. Panama (Chiriqui), also S. Am. Sclerurus mexicanus Tawny-throated Leafscraper S. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and S. Am. Sclerurus guatemalensis Scaly- throated Leafscraper Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), Colombia and Ecuador. ‘ Hellmayr treats all Pseudocolaptes as conspecific with the white-tufted P. hoissonneautii of the S. Am. Andes (chiefly Temperate Zone); if so, Tuftedcheek could be used for all. Zimmer and de Schauensee regard the lawrencii group as a distinct species. ® Xenoctistes of Hellmayr and Xenicopsis of Ridgway. ’ Sometimes regarded as conspecific with striaticollis of w. S. Am. Hellmayr uses the name Xenicopsoides montanus, including also birds of e. S. Am. ® Birds from Panama and n.w. S. .Am. are sometimes treated as a separate species, P. fuscipennis, Dusky-winged Foliage-gleaner. ^ Birds from e. Panama and n.w. S. Am. are sometimes regarded as a distinct species A. nigricauda, Black-tailed Foliage-gleaner. “ The birds of Mid. Am. to w. Ecuador belong to the pallidigularis group, which Todd regards as specifically distinct from ochrolaemus of S. Am. east of the Andes (Ann. Cam. Mus. 31(4): 41, 1948). [60] Lochmias nematura Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper Highlands e. Panama (Darien), and S. Am. Family FORMICARIIDAE ANTBIRDS Cymbilaimus lineatus Fasciated Antshrike Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Taraba major Great Antshrike Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador), and S. Am. Thamnophilus doliatus Barred Antshrike Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Thamnophilus bridges! Black-hooded Antshrike S.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama. Thamnophilus nigriceps Black Antshrike E. Panama (Darien), and Colombia. Thamnophilus punctatus Slaty Antshrike Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Xenornis setifrons Gray-faced Antbird E. Panama and n.w. Colombia. Thamnistes anabatinus Russet Antshrike Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and w. S. Am. Dysithamnus mentalis Plain Antvireo S. Mexico (Campeche), Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Pan- ama and S. Am. Dysithamnus striaticeps Streak-crowned Antvireo Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica and n.w. Panama (s of R. Sixaola, fide M. A. Carriker). Dysithamnus puncticeps Spot-crowned Antvireo E. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Myrmotherula brachyura Pygmy Antwren Cent. Panama to S. Am. Myrmotherula surinamensis Streaked Antwren Panama and S. Am. Myrmotherula fulviventris Fulvous-bellied Antwren S. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Myrmotherula axillaris White-flanked Antwren S. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Myrmotherula schisticolor Slaty Antwren Trop. Mid. Am. (from Chiapas south, except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus Rufous-winged Antwren E. Panama (Darien), and S. Am. Microrhopias quixensis^ Dot-winged Antwren Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Formicivora grisea Black-preasted Antwren Panama (Pearl Is.), and n. and e. S. Am. Terenura callinota Rufous-rumped Antwren Highlands w. Panama, n. and n.w. S. Am. Cercomacra tyrannina Dusky Antbird Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Cercomacra nigricans Jet Antbird Cent. Panama to n. S. Am. Gymnocichla nudiceps Bare-crowned Antbird Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. Colombia. Myrmeciza longipes White-bellied Antbird Cent. Panama to n. S. Am. Myrmeciza exsuP Chestnut-backed Antbird Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Myrmeciza laemosticta Dull-mantled Antbird Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Myrmeciza immaculata Immacul.ate Antbird Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Formicarius analis Black-faced Antthrush Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Formicarius nigricapillus Black-headed Antthrush Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Formicarius rufipectus Rufous-breasted Antthrush Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Gymnopithys leucaspis^ Bicolored Antbird Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Hylophylax naevioides Spotted Antbird E. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Phaenostictus mcleannani Ocell.ated Antthrush S.e. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. ' Middle American birds belong to the houcardi group, which some authors regard as distinct from S. Am. quixensis. ‘ Birds from e. Panama and S. Am. Jf. maculifer, are by some deemed a separate species. If so, they may be called Wing-spotted Antbird. ® Middle .American birds belong to the bicolor group, sometimes regarded as a species distinct from Icucaspis. Myrmornis torquata^ Wing- banded Antthrush S.e. Nicaragua, e. Panama and S. Am. Pittasoma michleri Black-crowned Antpitta Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Grallaricula flavirostris Ochre-breasted Antpitta Mts. Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. Grallaria guatimalensis Scaled Antpitta Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and n. S. Am. Grallaria fulviventris Fulvous-bellied Antpitta E. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Grallaria perspicillata Streak-chested Antpitta E. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Family RHINOCRYPTIDAE TAPACULOS Scytalopus argentifrons® Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Scytalopus panamensis Pale-throated Tapaculo Highlands e. Panama (Darien), Colombia and Ecuador. Family PIPRIDAE MANAKINS Piprites griseiceps Gi^ay-headed Manakin Nicaragua and Costa Rica (chiefly Caribbean slope). Pipra coronata Blue-crowned Manakin Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Pipra mentalis Red-capped Manakin Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Pipra erythrocephala Flame-headed Manakin E. Panama and S. Am. Pipra pipra White-crowned Manakin Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am. Chloropipo holochlora Green Manakin E. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Chiroxiphia linearis Long-tailed Manakin Trop. Mid. Am. (chiefly Pacific slope, not recorded Brit. Hon- duras) to Costa Rica. Chiroxiphia lanceolata Lance- t.ailed Manakin Panama (chiefly Pacific slope), n. Colombia and V^enezuela. ■' The Middle American form is stictoptera, often considered a separate species. Ridgway used the generic name Riiopoterpe. ® Includes chiriquensis of Panama (e. Chiriqui and \’eraguas). Corapipo leucorrhoa® White-ruffed Manakin Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. Manacus aurantiacus^ Orange-collared Manakin Pacific slope of Costa Rica and w. Panama. Manacus cerritus^ Almirante Manakin Caribbean slope of extreme n.w. Panama (Almirante Bay). Manacus vitellinus Golden-collared Manakin Panama and Colombia. Manacus candei White-collared Manakin Trop. Mid. Am. (chiefly Caribbean slope) to n.e. Costa Rica. Schiffomis® turdinus Thrush-like Manakin Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Sapayoa aenigma Broad-billed Manakin E. Panama, w. Colombia and n.w. Ecuador. Eamily COTINGIDAE COTINGAS Cotinga amabilis® Lovely Cotinga Caribbean slope trop. Mid. Am. s. Mexico to Costa Rica. Cotinga ridgwayi Turquoise Cotinga Pacific slope s.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama. Cotinga nattererii Blue Cotinga Cent. Panama to Colombia and Ecuador. Carpodectes nitidus Snowy Cotinga Caribbean slope Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Carpodectes antoniae^” Yellow-billed Cotinga Pacific slope s.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama (Chiriqui). Carpodectes hopkei*® Black-tipped Cotinga E. Panama (?) (Darien, presumably this seen, T. Barbour), w. Colombia and Ecuador. Attila spadiceus Bright-rumped Attila Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Laniocera rufescens^ Speckled Mourner Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. ® Mid. Am. birds belong to the altera group, ranging to n.w. Colombia, perhaps specifically distinct from leucorrhoa. “White-throated” Manakin, sometimes used for this species, is the name generally applied to another species, C. gutturalis of S. Am. ’If regarded as races of M. vitellinus, Golden-collared Manakin is appropriate for the entire complex. ® Scotothorus of Ridgway. ’ This and the next two forms may be conspecific, perhaps races of the Upper Amazonian C. maynana\ if so. Blue Cotinga can be used. Regarded by Hellmayr and Zimmer as races of C. nitidus, the Snowy Cotinga. ’ Placed by Ridgway in the family Pipridae. [64] Rhytipterna holerythra^ Rufous Mourner Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Lipaugus unirufus^ Rufous Piha Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Pachyramphus versicolor Barred Becard Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Pachyramphus rufus Cinereous Becard E. Panama and S. Am. Pachyramphus cinnamomeus Cinnamon Becard Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n. S. Am. Pachyramphus polychopterus White-winged Becard Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Pachyramphus albogriseus Black-and-white Becard W. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Pachyramphus major Gray-collared Becard Trop. Mid. Am. from Mexico to e. Nicaragua. Platypsaris homochrous One-colored Becard Cent. Panama to w. S. Am. Platypsaris aglaiae Rose-throated Becard S.w. U. S. and Mid. Am. to n. Costa Rica. Tityra semifasciata Masked Tityra Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Tityra^ inquisitor Black-crowned Tityra Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Querula purpurata Purple-throated Fruitcrow Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Cephalopterus glabricollis^ Bare-necked Umbrellabird Costa Rica and w. Panama (chiefly highlands). Procnias tricarunculata Three-wattled Bellbird Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama (chiefly highlands). Family TYRANNIDAE TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Sayornis phoebe Eastern Phoebe E. N. Am. ; winters to Mexico. Sayornis nigricans Black Phoebe W. N. Am. and highlands Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to S. Am.; northern birds winter occasionally to Costa Rica. Ridgway placed this species in the genus Lipaugus. ® Ridgway placed this species in the genus Latkria. ■* Sometimes placed in a separate genus Erator. ® By Hellmayr all Umbrellabirds are deemed races of the S. Am. C. ornatus. Sayornis saya Say’s Phoebe \V. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters to IVIexico. Colonia colonus Long-tailed Tyrant S. Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Fluvicola pica Pied Water-Tyrant E. Panama and S. Am. Pyrocephalus rubinus Vermilion Flycatcher S.w. U. S., Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, also S. Am.; recorded Panama (once, photographed, E. Eisenmann). Muscivora forficata Scissor-tailed Flycatcher S W. U. S.; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras). Muscivora tyrannus Fork-tailed Flycatcher Mid. Am. and S. Am. Tyrannus tyrannus Eastern Kingbird E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters from Honduras to S. Am. Tyrannus vociferans Cassin’s Kingbird W. N. Am. and n. Mexico; winters to Guatemala. Tyrannus verticalis Western Kingbird W. N. Am. to n.w. Mexico; winters to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua. Tyrannus melancholicus Tropical Kingbird S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. and S. Am. Tyrannus dominicensis Gray Kingbird S.e. U. S., Bahamas, West Indies; winters to Panama and n. S. Am.; a few records Mexico (Cozumel I. and Cancun I. off Yucatan Pen.), Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Tyrannus cubensis Giant Kingbird West Indies; recorded once from Mexico (Mujeres I. off Yucatan Pen.). Tyrannus crassirostris Thick-billed Kingbird W. Mexico to w. Guatemala. Legatus leucophaius Piil\tic Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported El Salvador, Honduras), and S. Am. Sirystes® sibilator Sirystes Cent. Panama to S. Am. Myiodynastes luteiventris Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. to Costa Rica; winters s. to Panama and n.w. S. Am. Myiodynastes maculatus Streaked Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (not recorded El Salvador and Nicaragua), and S. Am. ® This nionotypic genus may belong in Cotingidae, as Ridgway believed. Myiodynastes hemichrysus^ Golden-bellied Flycatcher Highlands of Costa Rica and w. Panama. Megarynchus pitangua Boat-billed Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Coryphotriccus albovittatus® White-ringed Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama, w. Colombia and Ecuador. Myiozetetes cayanensis Rusty-margined Flycatcher Cent. Panama to S. Am. Myiozetetes similis Social® Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Myiozetetes granadensis Gray-capped Flycatcher Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Pitangus sulphuratus Great Kiskadee S. Texas, Mid. Am. to n.w. Panama (Bocas del Toro), also S. Am. Pitangus lictor Lesser Kiskadee Cent. Panama to S. Am. Myiarchus crinitus Great-crested Flycatcher E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Myiarchus cinerascens Ash-throated Flycatcher W. U. S. and n. Mexico; winters to Guatemala and El Salvador, casually to n.w. Costa Rica. Myiarchus nuttingi^® Pale-throated Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to n.w. Costa Rica. Myiarchus tyraimulus' Brown-crested Flycatcher S.w. U. S., Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica, also n. and e. S. Am. and Lesser Antilles. Myiarchus yucatanensis Yucatan Flycatcher Mexico (n. Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel L). Myiarchus ferox Short-crested Flycatcher S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Myiarchus tuberculifer Dusky -capped Flycatcher Arizona, Mid. Am. and S. Am. ’’ By Hellmayr treated as a race of the S. Am. M. chrysocephalus, Golden-crowned Flycatcher. ® By Hellmayr treated as a race of C. parvus, of n.e. S. Am. • “Vermilion-crowned” is sometimes used. Sometimes regarded as conspecific with M. cinerascens. ' The A.O.U. Check-List Committee and van Rossem are here followed in the rather questionable lumping with the South American M. tyrannulus of the northern M. magister group from Arizona to Honduras and El Salvador (at least in winter), and the Central American M. brachyurus, from the Pacific slope of Chiapas to n.w. Costa Rica. If more than one species be recognized, Brown-crested Flycatcher applies to the magister group. M. brachyurus has been called Ometepe Flycatcher. [67] Nesotriccus ridgwayi Cocos Island Flycatcher Costa Rica (Cocos I.). Deltarhynchus flammulatus Flammulated Flycatcher S.w. and s. Mexico (Jalisco to Chiapas). Nuttallornis borealis Olive-sided Flycatcher N. Am. and mts. n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.); migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras); winters chiefly S. Am., occasionally n. to Costa Rica. Contopus virens Eastern Wood-Pewee E . N . Am . ; m igrates through M id . Am . (not reported El Salvador) ; winters from Nicaragua but chiefly to n.w. S. Am. ' Contopus richardsonii^ Western Wood-Pewee W. N. Am. and highlands Mid. Am. (breeding s. of Guatemala uncertain); migrates through Mid. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. but chiefly in w. S. Am. Contopus cinereus^ Tropical Pewee Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Contopus pertinax"* Greater Pewee Highlands Arizona, and Mid. Am. s. to n. Nicaragua. Contopus lugubris'* Dark Pewee Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Contopus ochraceus Ochraceous Pewee Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama (Chiriqui, one spec.). Empidonax flaviventris Yellow-bellied Flycatcher N.e. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras). Empidonax virescens Acadian Flycatcher E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Hon- duras, El Salvador); winters in Panama and n. S. Am. Empidonax traillii Traill’s Flycatcher N. Am.; winters Mid. Am. (unreported Brit. Honduras) to S. Am. Empidonax minimus Least Flycatcher N.e. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Empidonax hammondii Hammond’s Flycatcher W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, Nicaragua. * Perhaps conspecific with C. virens. If so, call the complex Wood Pewee. The genus Contopus was formerly known as Myiochanes. ’ The Middle American birds belong to the hrachytarsus group. ^ Zimmer treats both as races of the South American C. fumi^atus, If so, the entire complex may be called Greater Pewee. Wright’s Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri^ W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Empidonax wrightii® Gray Flycatcher W. U. S. to (?) n.w. Mexico; winters to Mexico. Empidonax affinis® Pine Flycatcher Oak-pine forests of Mexico; winters to Guatemala. Empidonax difRcilis Western Flycatcher W. N. Am., mts. Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. Empidonax flavescens Yellowish Flycatcher Highlands of Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) from s. Mexico (Chiapas) to w. Panama. Einpidonax albigularis White-throated Flycatcher Highlands (chiefly) of Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador) to w. Panama. Empidonax atriceps Black-capped Flycatcher Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Empidonax fulvifrons Buff-breasted Flycatcher S.w. U. S. and highlands of n. and w. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Aechmolophus mexicanus Pileated Flycatcher Mexico (highlands of Michoacan to Oaxaca). Xenotriccus callizonus Belted Flycatcher S. Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala. Mitrephanes phaeocercus Tufted Flycatcher Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and w. S. Am. Terenotriccus erythrurus Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Aphanotriccus capitalis Tawny-chested Flycatcher E. Nicaragua and e. Costa Rica, Aphanotriccus^ audax Black-billed Flycatcher E. Panama and n.w. Colombia. Myiobius sulphureipygius® Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. ‘ The A.O.U. Committee is reluctantly followed in transferring to the bird formerly called E. griseus the specific name wrightii, and in renaming Wright’s Flycatcher E. oberholseri (Auk, 70: 360, 1953; Phillips, Auk, 56: 311-312, 1939). Moreover A. Phillips has found that no published records from Guatemala of Wright’s Flycatcher are actually that species (Auk, 61: 294, 1944; Condor, 49: 121, 1947). ® This includes E. “fulvipectus", E. trepidus and E. pulverius (see Moore, Auk, 57: 349-350, 364-365, 1940). ’’ Praedo of some authors. * Treated as conspecific with barbatus of e. S. Am. by some authors. Myiobius atricaudus Black-tailed Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Myiophobus fasciatus Bran-colored Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Onychorhynchus mexicanus® Northern Royal-Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am., n. Colombia and n.w. Venezuela. Platyrinchus mystaceus^“ White-throated Spadebill Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Platyrinchus coronatus Golden-crowned Spadebill Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Cnipodectes subbrunneus Brownish Flycatcher E. Panama and S. Am. Tolmomyias sulphurescens^ Yellow-olive Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Tolmomyias assimilis^ Yellow-margined Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Rhynchocyclus olivaceus Olivaceous Flatbill Panama and S. Am. Rhynchocyclus brevirostris Eye-ringed Flatbill Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) and n.w. S. Am. Todirostrum nigriceps^ Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Todirostrum cinereum Common Tody-Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Todirostrum sylvia Slate-headed Tody- Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n. S. Am. Oncostoma cinereigulare Northern Bentbill Trop. Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Oncostoma olivaceum^ Southern Bentbill Cent. Panama to Colombia. ® All Royal Flycatchers may be races of coronatus of e. S. Am. Birds from Mexico to w. Costa Rica, P. cancrominus, are by some regarded as a species, Stub-tailed Spadebill. 1 Includes flavo-olivaceus and cinereiceps, (placed in Rhynchocyclus by Ridgway, who called the true members of that genus, Craspedo prion). Unlike true Rhyn- chocyclus, whose breeding behavior is like the Pipridae, Tolmomyias behaves norm- ally (Skutch, Ibis 1953: 4, 33-34). As these genera may not be closely allied, it seems best to reserve the special group name “Flatbill” to the aberrant Rhynchocyclus. Ridgw’ay’s name “Yellow-olive Flycatcher” is favored because “Sulphury Fly- catcher” has been used for another species. - Called T. flavotectus by Hellmayr and Rhynchocyclus marginatus by Ridgway. ® Considered conspecific with chrysocrotaphum of e. S. Am. by Zimmer. ^ Both Bentbills are considered races of cinereigulare by Hellmayr. Lophotriccus pileatus Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Atalotriccus pilaris White-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant Panama and n. S. Am. Perissotriccus atricapillus^ Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant Costa Rica, Panama, n.w. Colombia and Ecuador. Pseudotriccus pelzelni Streak-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant Mts. e. Panama (Darien) and n.w. S. Am. Phylloscartes flavovirens® Yellow-green Tyrannulet Panama (Canal Zone eastward). Phylloscartes^ superciliaris Rufous-browed Tyrannulet Mts. Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Capsiempis flaveola Yellow Tyrannulet Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Serpophaga cinerea Torrent Tyrannulet Rapid streams (chiefly highlands) Costa Rica, w. Panama and w. S. Am. Elaenia flavogaster Yellow-bellied Elaenia Trop. Mid. Am., S. Am., s. Lesser Antilles. Elaenia martinica* Caribbean Elaenia Lesser Antilles, other Caribbean islands, Mexico (is. off Yucatan Pen.), (?) Brit. Honduras (Half Moon Cay). Elaenia chiriquensis ’ Lesser Elaenia S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Elaenia frantzii® Mountain Elaenia Mts. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, w. Panama, n. S. Am. Myiopagis^® gaimardii Forest Elaenia Cent. Panama through S. Am. Myiopagis viridicata Greenish Elaenia Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. ® Zimmer and others merge Perissotriccus in Myiornis and treat this form as a race of the gray-headed ecaudalus of n. and e. S. Am., Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant. ® Ridgway placed this species in the genus Leptopogorr, Hellmayr treated it as a race of P. ventralis of e. S. Am. (But cf. Zimmer, Am. Mus. Nov. 1095: 2-3, 1940). ’’ Placed in the genus Mecocerculus by Hellmayr. ® Includes chinchorrensis of Chinchorro Bank off the Yucatan Peninsula. ® Considered by Hellmayr (but not Zimmer) conspecific with obscura of cent. S. Am., the Dusky Elaenia. 10 Myiopagis is merged in Elaenia by Hellmayr, but considered distinct by Zimmer. Ridgway considered gaimardii a member of Cotingidae and erected for it the genus Elainopsis. [71] Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus arenarum^ Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Phaeomyias murina Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Semi-arid areas, Panama and S. Am. Camptostoma imberbe Northern Beardless Tyrannulet* * S.w. U. S. and Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica. Camptostoma obsoletum Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Phyllomyias griseiceps Sooty-headed Tyrannulet N. S. Am. to e. Panama (Darien). Tyranniscus vilissimus Paltry Tyrannulet Trop. Mid. Am. (from Chiapas south, except Brit. Honduras) and S. Am. Tyrannulus^ elatus Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Panama and S. Am. Acrochordopus^ zeledoni White-fronted Tyrannulet Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama and n. S. Am. Ornithion^ semiflavum Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Trop. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Pac. slope of Costa Rica. Ornithion brimneicapillum^ Brown-capped Tyrannulet Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and Panama (Pac. slope also in e. half), and n. S. Am. Leptopogon superciliaris Slaty-capped Flycatcher Highlands of Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Leptopogon amaurocephalus Sepia-capped Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador), and S. Am. Mionectes olivaceus Olive-striped Flycatcher Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Pipromorpha oleaginea Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Family OXYRUNCIDAE SHARPBILLS Oxyruncus cristatus Sharpbill Mts. Costa Rica, w. and e. Panama, and locally in S. Am. * Considered by Hellmayr (but not Zimmer) conspecific with modestus of s. S. Am. * Hellmayr’s group name “Tyrannulet” is preferable to “Flycatcher” because of the behavior and small size of the genus, though the A.O.U. Check-List Committee uses “Flycatcher”. ^ Ridgway placed the species of these genera in the family Cotingidae. * By some deemed conspecific with the gray-capped semiflavunr, if so. Yellow- bellied Tyrannulet is the best name for the species. Microtriccus is used as the generic name by Ridgway, Hellmayr and others; Zimmer is here followed. 172] Family ALAUDIDAE LARKS Eremophila alpestris Horned Lark Eurasia, N. Am. to Mexico (s. to Oaxaca); Colombia. Family HIRUNDINIDAE SWALLOWS Progne subis^ Purple Martin N. Am., Mexico, West Indies; the e. N. Am. race winters chiefly in Brazil, with a few records from e. Mexico, Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua. Progne chalybea Gray-breasted Martin Texas, Mid. Am. and S. Am. Phaeoprogne® tapera Brown-chested Martin S. Am.; the southern race fusca regularly migrates n. to Panama during the Southern Hemisphere winter. Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Cliff Swallow N. Am. and Mexico; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras and Nicaragua); winters in S. Am. Petrochelidon fulva Cave Swallow West Indies, Texas, e. Mexico (s. to Chiapas and Yucatan). Hirundo rustica Barn Swallow Old World, N. Am. to cent. Mexico; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters in S. Am., occasionally in Mid. Am. Stelgidopteryx ruficollis Rough-winged Swallow N. Am., Mid. Am. and S. Am.; the northern races winter through Mid. Am. Neochelidon tibialis White-thighed Swallow Cent. Panama through S. Am. Pygochelidon cyanoleuca Blue-and-white Swallow Highlands Costa Rica, w. Panama, S. Am. The s. S. Am. form patagonica’ sometimes winters n. to cent. Panama, recorded from Nicaragua {fide T. R. Howell). Notiochelidon pileata Black-capped Swallow Highlands Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala and El Salvador. Riparia riparia Bank Swallow Old World, N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras), winters in S. Am. ® Includes sinaloae of w. Mexico (Sinaloa, Jalisco), which occurs also in Guatemala. Some authors regard this as a race of the West Indian P. dominicensis , which they hold to be specifically distinct and which might be called Snowy-bellied Martin. ® Some authors merge this genus in Progne. ’’ This form, the Patagonian Swallow, may be a distinct species. De Schauensee merges the genus Pygochelidon in AUicora. Iridoprocne bicolor Tree Swallow N. Am.; winters to Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Hon- duras, Nicaragua. Iridoprocne albilinea Mangrove Swallow Trop. Mid. Am. and w. S. Am. Tachycineta thalassina Violet-green Swallow W. N. Am. and Mexico (south to Oaxaca and Veracruz); winters to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras; recorded Costa Rica. Family CORVIDAE CROWS AND JAYS Corvus corax Common Raven Eurasia, N. Am., Mexico (western and plateau regions), Guate- mala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua. Corvus cryptoleucus White-necked Raven Deserts s.w. U. S. and Mexico (to Guanajuato). Corvus brachyrhynchos® Common Crow N. Am. to n.w. Mexico. Corvus imparatus® Mexican Crow N. Mexico (south to San Luis Potosi and Colima). Nucifraga Columbiana Clark’s Nutcracker W. N. Am. and mts. n.w. Mexico. Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Pin yon Jay Mts. w. U. S. to n.w, Mexico (Baja Calif., once Chihuahua). Calocitta formosa^® Magpie Jay S.w. Mexico (Colima southward), Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, Nicaragua, and n.w. Costa Rica. Psilorhinus morio^ Plain-tailed Brown Jay E. Mexico (Nuevo Leon to Tabasco). Psilorhinus mexicanus^ WMite-tipped Brown Jay E. and s.e. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and n.w. Panama. Cyanocorax affinis Black-chested Jay Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. Cyanocorax dickeyi Tufted Jay Mexico (mts. s.e. Sinaloa). * Regarded by Hellmayr as conspecific with the Old World C. corone. ® Hellmayr treats this as a race of the N. Am. Fish Crow, C. ossifragus. '“Some authors divide the Magpie Jays into two species: C. colliei, Black- throated Magpie-Jay of n.w. Mexico, and C. formosa, White-throated Magpie-Jay of s.w. Mexico to Costa Rica. 1 These are probably partly localized color phases. If so, the name is P. morio, Brown Jay. [74] Cyanocorax" yncas Green Jay Texas, Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, also high- lands n. and w. S. Am. Cissilopha san-blasiana Black-and-blue Jay S.w. Mexico (Nayarit to Guerrero). Cissilopha yucatanica^ Yucatan Jay Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Tabasco), Guatemala (Peten), and Brit. Honduras. Cissilopha beecheii Purplish-backed Jay N.w. Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit). Cissilopha melanocyanea Bushy-crested Jay Highlands Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Cyanolyca cucullata^ Azure-hooded Jay Highlands S. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Cyanolyca mirabilis White-throated Jay Mts. s.w. Mexico (Omilteme, Guerrero). Cyanolyca nana Dwarf Jay Mts. s.e. Mexico (Veracruz, Mexico and Oaxaca). Cyanolyca pumilo Black-throated Jay Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas), Brit. Honduras {fide Salvin and Godman), Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Cyanolyca argenti^ula Silvery-throated Jay Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Aphelocoma coerulescens Scrub Jay Florida, w. U. S, and plateau of Mexico. Aphelocoma ultramarina^ Gray-breasted Jay Mts. s.w. U. S. and Mexico. Aphelocoma unicolor Unicolored Jay Mts. s. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Cyanocitta stelleri Steller’s Jay W. N. Am., highlands Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Family PARIDAE TITMICE Parus sclateri Mexican or Gray-sided Chickadee Mts. s.w. U. S. and Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). ^ Often placed in a separate genus Xanthoura. ’ Perhaps conspecific with san-blasiana', if so, use Black-and-blue Jay. ‘ Hellmayr treats this as conspecific with the S. Am. pulchra; Pitelka disagrees. ® Hellmayr uses the name sordida for this species. [75] Parus gambeli Mountain Chickadee Mts. w. N. Am. to n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.). Parus atricristatus® Black-crested Titmouse Texas and e. Mexico (to Veracruz). Parus inomatus Plain Titmouse W. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.). Parus wollweberi Bridled Titmouse Mts. s.w. U. S. and Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). Auriparus flaviceps Verdin S.w. U. S. and n. and w. Mexico (s. to Jalisco). Psaltiparus minimus Plain Bushtit W. U. S. and highlands n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif, and Sonora). Psaltiparus melanotis^ Black-eared Bushtit Highlands s.w. U. S., Mexico and Guatemala. Family SITTIDAE NUTHATCHES Sitta carolinensis White-bre.\sted N. Am. to mts. Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). Sitta canadensis Red-breasted N. Am. and Mexico (Guadalupe I.). Sitta pygmaea® . Pygmy W. N. Am. to highlands cent. Mexico. Family CERTHIIDAE CREEPERS Certhia familiaris® Brown Creeper Eurasia, N. Am., mts. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. Family CHAMAEIDAE* *® WRENTITS Chamaea fasciata Wrentit Pac. U. S. to n.w. Mexico (n.w. Baja Calif.). Family CINCLIDAE DIPPERS Cinclus mexicanus American Dipper Rapid mt. streams w. N. Am., and Mid. Am. to w. Panama (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador). * Possibly a race of P. bicolor, the Tufted Titmouse of e. and s. U. S. ' Considered by Hellmayr conspecific with minimus', if so, Bushtit suffices as the name of the complex. * Possibly conspecific with 5. pusillus of s.e. U. S. ® Hellmayr treats the American birds as a distinct species, C. americana. Several recent authors merge this family with the Old World Timaliidae. N UTHATCH Nuthatch Nuth.atch Family TROGLODYTIDAE WRENS Cistothorus platensis Sedge Wren Local: E. N. Am., highlands Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am. Telmatodytes* palustris Marsh Wren N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Campylorhynchus^ albo-brunneus White-headed Wren Cent. Panama to Colombia. Campylorhynchus megalopterus Gray-barred Wren Mexico (s. Plateau region). Campylorhynchus zonatus Band- backed Wren Trop. Mid. Am. (s. Mexico to w. Panama) and n.w. S. Am. Campylorhynchus rufinucha^® Rufous-naped Wren Trop. Mid. Am. to n.w. Costa Rica. Campylorhynchus chiapensis Giant Wren Mexico (Chiapas). Campylorhynchus brimneicapillus Cactus Wren Arid areas s.w. U. S. and Mexico. Campylorhynchus jocosus Spotted Wren N. and w. Mexico. Thryothorus ludovicianus Carolina Wren E. and s. U. S. and n.e. Mexico. Thryothorus leucotis Buff-breasted Wren Cent. Panama to S. Am. Thryothorus modestus Plain Wren Trop. Mid. Am. to cent. Panama Thryothorus zeledoni^ Cane-brake Wren Caribbean Nicaragua, Costa Rica and n.w. Panama. Thryothorus sinaloa Bar- vented Wren W. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Guerrero). Thryothorus rufalbus Rufous-and-white Wren Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) from s. Mexico (Chiapas) to n. S. Am. 1 Hellmayr merges this genus in Cistothorus. ’ Hellmayr used Heleodytes, and calls most forms of the genus “Cactus Wren”. Many are woodland birds, so we reserve that name for brunneicapillus. Birds from Chiapas southward, the C. capistratus group, may be a separate species, called Rufous-backed Wren by L. 1. Davis. ’ Considered by Hellmayr a race of modestus. Thryothorus thoracicus^ Stripe-breasted Wren Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Thryothorus leucopogon'* Stripe-throated Wren E. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Thryothorus nigricapillus^ Black-capped Wren E. Panama and n. w. S. Am. Thryothorus castaneus^ Bay Wren Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica to cent. Panama (also Pacific slope). Thryothorus semibadius* Riverside Wren Pacific slope s.w. Costa Rica and s.w. Panama. Thryothorus pleurostictus Banded Wren Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) from s.w. Mexico to n.w. Costa Rica. Thryothorus atrogularis Black- throated Wren Caribbean slope Nicaragua, Costa Rica and n.w. Panama. Thryothorus spadix® Sooty-headed Wren Highlands e. Panama (Darien) and n.w. Colombia. Thryothorus fasciato-ventris Black-bellied Wren S.w. Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Thryothorus albinucha White-browed Wren Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Guatemala (Peten), Nicaragua. Thryothorus felix Happy Wren W. Mexico (Sonora to Oaxaca, Tres Marias Is.). Thryothorus maculipectus^ Spot-breasted Wren Trop. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, n. Nicaragua. Thryothorus rutilus^ Rufous-breasted Wren S.w. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad. Thryomanes bewickii Bewick’s Wren U. S. and Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Oaxaca). * Hellmayr treats these as one species, calling them thoracicus. If so. Stripe- throated Wren may be used for all, as leucopogon is plain-breasted. ‘ Hellmayr treats these as one species, calling them nigricapillus. If so, Bay Wren may be used for all, for semibadtus is not black-capped. ® Hellmayr treats this as a race of atrogularis, Black-throated Wren. ’’ Hellmayr treats these (as well as the sclaleri and paucimaculalus group of s. Colombia to Peru) as one species, using the name T. rutilus. The rulilus group is bright rufous below, with speckling usually restricted to the throat, the other groups lack rufous and tend to have the speckling everywhere except the throat. If Hellmayr’s broad species concept be adopted “Speckled Wren” should be used as the species name. [78] Socorro Wren Thryomanes sissonii Mexico (Socorro I.)- Troglodytes aedon Northern House-Wren N. Am. to n.w. Mexico (mts. Baja Calif.); winters to s. Mexico. Troglodytes tanneri Clarion Island Wren Mexico (Clarion I. in Revilla Gigedo group). Troglodytes musculus® Southern House-Wren Trop. Mid. Am., Lesser Antilles and S. Am. Troglodytes brunneicollis Brown-throated Wren Mts. Arizona to s. Mexico (Oaxaca). Troglodytes rufociliatus Rufous-browed Wren Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Troglodytes ochraceus® Ochraceous Wren Highlands Costa Rica and Panama. Thryorchilus browni Timberline Wren Mt. peaks Costa Rica and w. Panama. Henicorhina leucosticta White-breasted Wood-Wren Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Henicorhina leucophrys Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (unrecorded Brit. Honduras and Nica- ragua), and S. Am. Uropsila leucogastra White-bellied Wren E. and s.w. Mexico, Brit. Honduras and Guatemala. Salpinctes obsoletus Rock Wren W. N. Am., Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nica- ragua and n.w. Costa Rica. Catherpes mexicanus Canyon Wren Highlands w. N. Am. through Mexico (to Chiapas). Hylorchilus sumichrasti Slender-billed Wren Mexico (Veracruz). Microcerculus philomela Nightingale Wren S. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Cyphorhinus^® phaeocephalus Song Wren Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecua- dor. ® Includes the martinicensis group (to which beani, the Cozumel I. form belongs), by some regarded as a separate species, the Antillean House-Wren. ® Hellmayr treats this group as races of the S. Am. solstitialis, and suggests that rufociliatus and brunneicollis may also be conspecific. If so, the technical name would be brunneicollis, and “Mountain Wren” may be used for all. Hellmayr uses Leucolepis for this genus. [79] Family MIMIDAE MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Toxostoma longirostre^ Long-billed Thrasher Texas and e. Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Puebla). Toxostoma guttatum Cozumel Thrasher Mexico (Cozumel I. off Yucatan Pen.). Toxostoma ocellatum Ocellated Thrasher South-central Mexico (Hidalgo and Mexico to Oaxaca). Toxostoma cinereum Gray Thrasher Mexico (Baja Calif.). Toxostoma bendirei Bendire’s Thrasher Deserts s.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Sonora); winters to Sinaloa. Toxostoma curvirostre Curve-billed Thrasher Arid s.w. U. S. and Mexico (to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Toxostoma redivivum California Thrasher Calif, and Mexico (Baja Calif.). Toxostoma lecontei Leconte’s or Desert Thrasher Deserts s.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Sonora and Baja Calif.). Toxostoma dorsale Crissal Thrasher S.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif, to Coahuila and Hidalgo). Melanotis caerulescens Blue Mockingbird Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua, to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Melanotis hypoleucus^ Blue-and-white Mockingbird Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Melanoptila glabrirostris Black Catbird Mexico (coast of Yucatan Pen. and adjacent islands), Brit. Hon- duras, Guatemala (Peten), and Honduras. Dumetella carolinensis Common Catbird N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to cent. Panama. Mimodes graysoni Socorro Thrasher Mexico (Socorro I. of Re villa Gigedo Is.). Mimus polyglottos Common Mockingbird U. S., Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Mimus gilvus Tropical Mockingbird Local: trop. Mid. Am. s.e. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, cent. Panama (common, introduced [?]), n. S. Am. and s. Lesser Antilles; recorded from Costa Rica. 1 T. rufum, the Brown Thrasher of e. N. Am. is believed by L. Griscom likely to winter to e. Mexico (Modern Bird Study, p. 109), but there are no positive records. * Hellmayr and Blake treat this as a race of caerulescens; Wetmore disagrees. [801 Oreoscoptes montanus Sage Thrasher W. N. Am. to n.w. Mexico. Donacobius atricapillus Black-capped Mockingthrush E. Panama (Darien) and S. Am. Family TURDIDAE THRUSHES Turdus migratorius^“ American Robin N. Am. and highlands of Mexico (to Veracruz and Oaxaca); winters to Guatemala. Turdus rufitorques Rufous-collared Robin Mts. s.e. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, and El Salvador. Turdus rufo-palliatus Rufous-backed Robin W. Mexico (Sonora to Oaxaca and Tres Marias Is.). Turdus assimilis White-throated Robin Trop. Mid. Am. (chiefly in the highlands), w. Colombia and Ecuador. Turdus gray! Clay-colored Robin Trop. Mid. Am. and n. Colombia. Turdus fumigatus^ Pale-vented Robin Caribbean Costa Rica, Panama (also Pac. slope in eastern part) and S. Am. Turdus plebejus^ Mountain Robin Mts. trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) from s. Mexico (Chiapas) to w. Panama. Turdus infuscatus * Black Robin Mts. e. Mexico (Tamaulipas to Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Turdus nigrescens Sooty Robin High mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Ixoreus naevius Varied Thrush W. N. Am.; winters to Mexico (n. Baja Calif.). Myadestes townsendi Townsend’s Solitaire Mts. w. N. Am. and n. Mexico (Chihuahua and Durango). Myadestes obscurus Brown-backed Solitaire Mts. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Myadestes melanops^ Black-faced Solitaire Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Myadestes coloratus® Varied Solitaire Mts. e. Panama (Darien). ^ Includes confinis, San Lucas Robin, of Cape district of Baja California. ’ Hellmayr is followed in including the obsolelus group, Costa Rica to Ecuador. Hellmayr lumps this group with the lowland S. Am. ignobilis, Black-billed Robin; Wetmore disagrees. ® Hellmayr deems these races of ralloides, the Andean Solitaire of w. S. Am. Myadestes unicolor Slate-colored Solitaire Mts. s.e. Mexico (San Luis Potosi south), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Hylocichla® mustelina Wood Thrush E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Hylocichla guttata Hermit Thrush N. Am. to n.w. Mexico (mts. Baja Calif.); winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Hylocichla ustulata Swainson’s or Olive-backed Thrush N. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; the eastern populations winter chiefly in S. Am., the western ustulata in Mid. Am. south to Costa Rica. Hylocichla minima Gray-cheeked Thrush N. N. Am.; winters in West Indies and n. S. Am.; recorded on migration Mexico (Cozumel I.), Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Hon- duras, Costa Rica, Panama. Hylocichla fuscescens Veery N. Am.; winters in S. Am.; recorded on migration Mexico (Yuca- tan, Veracruz), Brit. Honduras, Honduras (Bay Is.), Costa Rica, Panama. Catharus dryas Spotted Nightingale-Thrush Highlands Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras and w. S. Am. Catharus mexicanus Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Highlands Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and El Salvador) to w. Panama. Catharus fuscater Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and w. S. Am. Catharus occidentalis Russet Nightingale-Thrush Mts. of Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). Catharus frantzii^ Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush Mts. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) from s. Mexico (Guerrero eastward) to w. Panama. Catharus aurantiirostris® Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush Highlands Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to w. Panama and n. S. Am. ® Some writers merge this genus in Catharus. ’’ Treated by Hellmayr and Blake as conspecific with occidentalis-, but cf. Griscom, Auk, 54: 198, 1937. If Hellmayr is followed, call the species Russet Nightingale- Thrush. * Includes the griseiceps group of s.w. Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia (see Zimmer, Auk, 61: 405, 1944), called Gray-headed Nightingale-Thrush. [82] Catharus gracilirostris Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush High mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Ridgwayia pinicola Aztec Thrush High mts. Mexico (Chihuahua to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Sialia sialis Common Bluebird N. Am., Mexico, and highlands Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Sialia mexicana Western Bluebird W. N. Am. and highlands Mexico (s. to Michoacan, Puebla and Veracruz). Sialia currucoides Mountain Bluebird Mts. w. N. Am. to Mexico (Chihuahua); winters to n.w. Mexico (Sonora and Baja Calif.). Family ZELEDONIIDAE'* WREN-THRUSHES Zeledonia coronata Wren-Thrush Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Family SYLVIIDAE OLD WORLD WARBLERS, KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS Polioptila*” caerulea Blue-gray Gnatcatcher U. S., Bahamas, Mexico, Guatemala (?); in winter to Brit. Hon- duras, Guatemala and Honduras (Bay Is.). Polioptila albiloris* White-lored Gnatcatcher Arid areas s. Mexico (chiefly Pac. slope and Yucatan Pen.), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and n.w. Costa • Rica. Polioptila plumbea Tropical Gnatcatcher Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) from s.e. Mexico (Quintana Roo) south to S. Am. Polioptila nigriceps Black-capped Gnatcatcher W. Mexico (Sonora to Jalisco). Polioptila melanura Black-tailed Gnatcatcher S.w. U. S. (chiefly desert) and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif, to Durango). Polioptila schistaceigula Slate-throated Gnatcatcher E. Panama (Darien) and n.w. S. Am. ® Perhaps better included in Turdidae. “ This genus and the next two are occasionally placed in a separate family Poliop- tilidae. 'Treated by Hellmayr as a race of P. plumbea, the Tropical Gnatcatcher; but Zimmer and Brodkorb consider it a distinct species. [83] Ramphocaenus rufiventris^ Long-dilled Gnatwren Trop. Mid. Am. and n.w. S. Am. Microbates cinereiventris Half-collared Gnatwren Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Regulus satrapa^ Golden-crowned Kinglet N. Am. through mts. of Me.xico to Guatemala. Regulus calendula Ruby-crowned Kinglet N. Am. and Me.xico (Guadalupe I.); winters through Mexico to Guatemala. Family MOTACILLIDAE WAGTAILS AND PIPITS Motacilla alba Pied Wagtail N. Eurasia; casual in Aleutians and Alaska; accidental once in Mexico (Baja Calif.). Anthus spinoletta ’ Water Pipit Old World and n. N. Am.; winters through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador. Anthus cervinus Red-throated Pipit N. Eurasia; accidental once in Mexico (Baja Calif.). Anthus spragueii Sprague’s Pipit Great Plains N. Am.; winters to Mexico (s. to Puebla and Vera- cruz). Anthus lutescens^ Yellowish Pipit Panama arid S. Am. Family BOMBYCILLIDAE WAXWINGS Bombycilla cedrorum Cedar Waxwing N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. F'amily PTILOGONATIDAE^ SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Ptilogonys cinereus Gray Silky-flycatcher Mts. Mexico (Chihuahua southwards) and Guatemala. Ptilogonys caudatus Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Phainopepla nitens Phainopepla S.w. U. S. to s. Mexico (to Puebla and Veracruz). ^ Zimmer considers this conspecific with the S. Am. melanura. This genus and the next were formerly placed with the Antwrens of the family Formicariidae. ^ Treated by Hellmayr as conspecific with the Old World R. regulus. The genus Regulus is placed by Wetmore in a separate family, Regulidae. ■* Zimmer considers that chii has priority as the specific name. ® By some this family is merged in Bombycillidae. Phainoptila melanoxantha Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Family LANIIDAE SHRIKES Lanius ludovicianus Loggerhead Shrike N. Am. and Mexico (s. to Oaxaca). Family STURNIDAE STARLINGS Sturnus vulgaris Common Starling N. Old World. Introduced U. S., now N. Am. to n.e. Mexico (Tamaulipas). Family CYCLARHIDAE^ PEPPERSHRIKES Cyclarhis gujanensis Rufous-browed Peppershrike Trop. Mid. Am. (from s.e. Mexico southward), and S. Am. Family VIREOLANIIDAE« SHRIKE-VIREOS Vireolanius melitophrys Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo Mts. s. cent. Mexico (Michoacan to Veracruz) and Guatemala. Smaragdolanius pulchellus Green Shrike-Vireo S.e. Mexico (Veracruz and Chiapas), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. Smaragdolanius eximius^ Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo E. Panama (Darien) and Colombia. Family VIREONIDAE VIREOS Vireo atricapillus Black-capped Vireo S.w. U. S.; winters to cent. Mexico. Vireo bairdi Cozumel Vireo Mexico (Cozumel I. off Yucatan Pen.). Vireo griseus White-eyed Vireo E. U. S. and n.e. Mexico (to San Luis Potosi and Hidalgo); winters U. S. to Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala and Hon- duras. Vireo perquisitor* * Veracruz Vireo Mexico (Veracruz). ® By some these families are merged in Vireonidae. ’’ Hellmayr treats this as conspecific with pulchellus. * Treated by Hellmayr as a race of griseus, the White-eyed Vireo. Vireo pallens® Mangrove Vireo Trop. Mid. Am. from Yucatan Pen. and Sonora s. to n.w. Costa Rica. Vireo huttoni Hutton’s Vireo W. N. Am., mts. Mexico and Guatemala. Vireo carmioli Yellow-winged Vireo Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Vireo hypochryseus Golden Vireo W. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Oaxaca, Tres Marias Is.). Vireo vicinior Gray Vireo S.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (s. to Durango). Vireo nelsonii° Dwarf Vireo S.w. Mexico (Michoacan). Vireo belli Bell’s Vireo W. U. S. and n. Mexico (s. to Guanajuato); winters Mexico to Guatemala, El Salvador; recorded in Nicaragua. Vireo flavifrons Yellow- throated Vireo E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Vireo solitarius Solitary Vireo Mts. N. Am., Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; northern birds winter s. U. S. to n. Nicaragua. Vireo olivaceus* Red-eyed Vireo N. Am. and n. Mexico (n.e. Coahuila); migrates through Mid. Am., winters in n. S. Am. Vireo flavoviridis^ Yellow-green Vireo Texas and Mid. Am.; winters to n. S. Am. Vireo magister Yucatan Vireo Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and adjacent islands), Brit. Honduras, Honduras (Bay Is.). Vireo altiloquus Black-whiskered Vireo Elorida Keys, West Indies; winters to n. S. Am.; recorded from Caribbean Honduras and Panama. Vireo philadelphicus Philadelphia Vireo E. N. Am.; winters in Mid. Am. (not recorded Brit. Honduras) to w. Panama. Vireo gilvus Warbling Vireo N. Am. to mts. n. and w. Mexico (Chihuahua and Tamaulipas to Guerrero); winters Mexico to Guatemala and El Salvador. ® Includes the ochraceus group (Mexico to e. Nicaragua). All are deemed races of griseus by Hellmayr. Formerly nanus. See Bond (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 86; 399-402, 1934). 1 Hellmayr uses the name virescens. 2 Hellmayr and many others consider this, as well as the wide-ranging S. Am. chivi group, to be races of the Red-eyed Vireo, V, olivaceus. [86] Vireo leucophrys^ Brown-capped Vireo Mts. s.e. Mexico (s. Veracruz and Chiapas), Costa Rica, w. Panama and S. Am. Neochloe brevipennis Slaty Vireo Mts. Mexico (Veracruz and Guerrero). Hylophilus aurantiifrons Golden-fronted Greenlet Cent. Panama to n. S. Am. Hylophilus flavipes^ ScRun Greenlet Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Hylophilus ochraceiceps Tawny-crowned Greenlet Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Hylophilus decurtatus Gray-headed Greenlet Trop. Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Hylophilus minor® Lesser Greenlet Cent. Panama eastward to Colombia and Ecuador Family COEREBIDAE® HONEYCREEPERS Diglossa baritula Cinnamon-bellied Flower-piercer Highlands trop. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Diglossa plumbea'^ Slaty Flower-piercer Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Chlorophanes spiza Green Honeycreeper Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) from Chiapas to S. Am. Cyanerpes cyaneus Red-legged Honeycreeper Trop. Mid. Am., S. Am., Cuba. Cyanerpes lucidus® Shining Honeycreeper Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. Colombia. Dacnis cayana Blue Dacnis Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. ® Zimmer considers this group conspecific with the Warbling Vireo, V. gilvus. ^ The Costa Rica-Panama form is viridiflavus, perhaps a species distinct from the S. Am. flavipes. Ridgway used Pachysylvia for the genus Hylophilus. ^ Deemed by Hellmayr conspecific with decurtatus. If so, call both Lesser Greenlet, as minor is not gray-capped. ® Beecher argues that this family be dropped and that, of the Middle American genera here listed, Coereba be transferred to Parulidae and the others to Thraupidae. ’ Treated by Hellmayr and Zimmer (together with the S. Am. sittoides group) as races of baritula. If so, the entire complex may be called Slaty Flower-piercer, for they all have slaty backs but plumbea lacks rufous underparts. * If Hellmayr is correct in treating this as conspecific with the S. Am. Purple Honeycreeper, caeruleus, “Yellow-legged Honeycreeper” would be appropriate for the complex; but de Schauensee says races of both caeruleus and lucidus occur in the same area in n.w. Colombia, near the Panama boundary. ViRIDIAN DaCNIS Dacnis viguieri E. Panama (Darien) and n.w. Colombia. Dacnis venusta Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Coereba flaveola Bananaquit Bahamas, West Indies, trop. Mid. Am. (not reported El Salvador and Honduras) and S. Am., casual in Fla. Family PARULIDAE WOOD-WARBLERS Ateleodacnis® leucogenys White-eared Conebill E. Panama (Darien) and Colombia and n.w. Venezuela. Mniotilta varia Black-and-white Warbler E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to n. S. Am. Protonotaria citrea Prothonotary Warbler S.e. U. S.; recorded from Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel I.), Honduras, and winters in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Limnothlypis swainsonii Swainson’s Warbler S.e. U. S.; winters in West Indies, Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras; recorded from e. Mexico, and off Honduras (Swan I.). Helmitheros vermivorus Worm-eating Warbler E. U. S.; winters in Mid. Am. to e. Panama. Vermivora chrysoptera®“ Golden-winged Warbler E. N. Am.; winters Mid. Am. (not recorded El Salvador or Brit. Honduras) to n. S. Am. Vermivora pinus Blue-winged Warbler E. U. S.; winters s.e. Mexico, Guatemala, e. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and casually to Colombia. Vermivora peregrina Tennessee Warbler E. N. Am.; winters Mid. Am. to n. S. Am. Vermivora celata Orange-crowned Warbler W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico (Todos Santos Is. off Baja Calif.); winters U. S. to Mexico and Guatemala. Vermivora ruficapilla Nashville or Gray-capped Warbler N. N. Am.; winters Texas to Mexico and Guatemala. Vermivora virginiae Virginia’s Warbler Mts. w. U. S.; winters in w. Mexico (s. to Guerrero). Vermivora crissalis Colima Warbler Mts. s.w. Texas and n.e. Mexico; winters Mexico (s. to Michoacan). ® Zimmer merges this genus in Coniroslrum. Hellmayr puts it in Coerebidae. Brewster’s Warbler {V. leucobronchialis), a hybrid between chrysoptera and pinus, has been taken in Costa Rica (Bonilla). [88] Vermivora luciae Lucy’s Warbler S.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters in w. Mexico (to Jalisco). Vermivora gutturalis Flame-throated Warbler Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Vermivora superciliosa Crescent-chested Warbler Highlands Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nic- aragua. Parula* *“ americana American Parula E. N. Am.; winters chiefly in West Indies, also e. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador (once), Nicaragua, Costa Rica (once). Parula pitiayumi Tropical Parula S. Texas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Parula graysoni* Socorro Parula Mexico (Socorro I., Revilla Gigedo group); casually Baja Calif. Peucedramus taeniatus^ Olive or Tawny-headed Warbler Mts. s.w. U. S., Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Dendroica aestiva^ Yellow Warbler N. Am. and Mexico (s. to Michoacan and Morelos), winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Dendroica petechia^ Golden Warbler Florida Keys, West Indies, Mexico (Cozumel 1. off Yucatan Pen.), Costa Rica (Cocos I.), Galapagos Is., and Pacific coast of s. Colombia to n. Peru. Dendroica erithachorides* Mangrove Warbler Coastal mangrove areas on both coasts of trop. Mid. Am. (from Tamaulipas and Baja Calif, southwards) and n. Colombia. Dendroica magnolia Magnolia Warbler N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Dendroica tigrina Cape May Warbler N. N. Am.; winters in West Indies; casual in Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras (Roatan I.). Sometimes known as Compsothlypis. * Hellmayr treats this as a race of pitiayumi. * Hellmayr uses the name olivaceus. ’ Hellmayr treated the erithachorides group as races of petechia, calling them Golden Warbler. The A.O.U. Check-List Committee now goes further, treating the aestiva group as races of petechia. If all three groups are deemed conspecific the name Yellow Warbler seems best. Dendroica caerulescens Black-throated Blue Warbler N.e. N. Am.; winters in West Indies, occurs in Mexico (Cozumel I.), Brit. Honduras, in Guatemala, Swan I. off Honduras, Colombia. Dendroica coronata Myrtle Warbler N. N. Am.; winters from U. S. through Mid. Am., casually to Colombia. Dendroica audubonP“ Audubon’s Warbler Mts. w. N. Am. to n.w. Mexico; winters to Mexico and Guatemala; casual in Costa Rica (sight, C. H. Rogers). Dendroica nigrescens Black-throated Gray Warbler Mts. w. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Dendroica townsendi Townsend’s Warbler Mts. n.w, N. Am.; winters to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua. Dendroica virens Black-throated Green Warbler E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Dendroica chrysoparia Golden-cheeked Warbler Highlands Texas; winters Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nic- aragua. Dendroica occidentalis Hermit Warbler Mts. w. N. Am.; winters Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, n. Nicaragua. Dendroica cerulea Cerulean Warbler E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (unrecorded El Salvador), winters n. S. Am. Dendroica fusca Blackburnian Warbler E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am., winters from Costa Rica to n.w. S. Am. Dendroica dominica Yellow-throated Warbler E. U. S.; the eastern race dominica winters in Fla. and West Indies; albilora winters in Mid. Am. to Costa Rica. Dendroica graciae Grace’s Warbler Mts. s.w. U. S. and highlands Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guate- mala, Honduras, El Salvador and n. Nicaragua. Dendroica pensylvanica Chestnut-sided Warbler E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am. (unrecorded in El Salva- dor), winters Nicaragua through Panama. Dendroica castanea Bay-breasted Warbler N.e, N, Am.; recorded through Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), Probably conspecific with coronata. [90] but records few north of Panama; winters in Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. Dendroica breviunguis* Black-polled Warbler N. N. Am.; migrates through West Indies, winters n. S. Am.; once Mexico (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). Dendroica pinus Pine Warbler E. N. Am. and West Indies; the northern race winters to n.e. Mexico (Tamaulipas). Dendroica discolor Pr.-mrie Warbler E. U. S.; winters in Fla. and West Indies and, at least casually, islands off Caribbean coast of Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua; once El Salvador. Dendroica vitellina Vitelline Warbler Small Caribbean islets off Central American coast including Hon- duras (Swan I.). Dendroica palmarum Palm Warbler N. N. Am.; winters to West Indies and e. Mexico (Yucatan Pen.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras (Bay Is.). Seiurus aurocapillus Ovenbird E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia and Venezuela. Seiurus noveboracensis Northern Waterthrush N. N. Am.; winters in West Indies, through Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. Seiurus motacilla Louisiana Waterthrush E. U. S.; winters in West Indies, and through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Oporomis formosus Kentucky Warbler E. U. S.; winters through Mid. Am. to n. Colombia. Oporomis Philadelphia® Mourning Warbler E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters Nicaragua s. to n.w. S. Am. Oporomis tolmiei MacGillivray’s Warbler W. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Panama and Colombia. Geothlypis trichas Common Yellowthroat N. Am. and Mexico (to Veracruz and Oaxaca); winters s. U. S,, West Indies, through Mid. Am. to w. Panama, casually to Colombia. * This is the name under the International Rules, but under A.O.U. Rules the name is D. striata. The Tehuantepec specimen, often attributed to D. castanea in the literature, is actually a Black-polled Warbler (fide H. Friedmann). ^ A supposed migrant record of 0. agilis, the Connecticut Warbler, from Costa Rica turns out to be an error for 0. Philadelphia (fide L. Griscom). Peninsular Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi Mexico (Baja Calif.). Geothlypis flavovelata Yellow-crowned Yellowthroat E. Mexico (Tamaulipas and n. Veracruz). Geothlypis chapalensis Chapala Yellowthroat Mexico (Lake Chapala and lower Lerma R. in Jalisco). Geothlypis chiriquensis® Chiriqui Yellowthroat W. Panama (base of Chiriqui volcano). Geothlypis semiflava Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Caribbean slope Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and n.w. Panama (Bocas del Toro), w. Colombia and Ecuador. Geothlypis speciosa Black-polled Yellowthroat Highland marshes s. cent. Mexico (Michoacan, Puebla, Veracruz). Geothlypis nelsoni Hooded Yellowthroat Mts. s.e. Mexico (San Luis Potosi to Oaxaca). Chamaethlypis poliocephala Gray -crowned Yellowthroat Texas, Mid. Am. to s.w. Panama (Chiriqui). Icteria virens Yellow-bre.a.sted Chat N. Am. and n. Mexico; winters through Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Granatellus venustus Red-breasted Chat \V. Mexico (Sinaloa to Chiapas). Granatellus francescae^ Tres Marias Chat \V. Mexico (Tres Marias Is.). Granatellus sallaei Gray-throated Chat E. Mexico (Veracruz to Oaxaca and Yucatan Pen.) and Guate- mala. Wilsonia citrina Hooded Warbler E. U. S.; winters in West Indies and through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Wilsonia pusilla Pileolated or Bl.\ck-capped Warbler N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras). Wilsonia canadensis Canada Warbler E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters from Honduras (rarely) to n.w. S. Am. Cardellina rubrifrons Red-faced Warbler Mts. s.w. U. S., Mexico and Guatemala. Setophaga ruticilla American Redstart N. Am.; winters through West Indies, Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. ® Hellmayr considers this a race of the S. Am. G. aequinoclialis, Masked Yellow- throat, which name may be used if he be followed. ’ Probably a race of G. venustus, and so treated by Blake. 192] Setophaga picta Painted Redstart Mts. Ariz., N. Mex., Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Myioborus miniatus Slate-throated Redstart Highlands trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Myioborus torquatus Collared Redstart Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Euthlypis lachrymosa Fan-tailed Warbler Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and n.w. Nicaragua. Ergaticus ruber Red Warbler Mts. Mexico (Sinaloa and Chihuahua to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Ergaticus versicolor® Pink-headed Warbler Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala. Basileuterus tristriatus® Three-striped Warbler Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Basileuterus culicivorus Golden-crowned Warbler Mid. Am. (chiefly highlands) and S. Am. Basileuterus melanogenys^® Black-cheeked Warbler Mts. Costa Rica and Panama. Basileuterus belli Golden-browed Warbler Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Basileuterus rufifrons^ Rufous-capped Warbler Chiefly highlands Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala and Hon- duras. Basileuterus delatriP Chestnut-capped Warbler W. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Basileuterus fulvicauda® Buff-rumped Warbler Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama and w. S. Am. ® Hellmayr treats this as conspecific with E. ruber, the Red Warbler. Includes B. lacarcunae, the Tacarcuna Warbler of Mt. Tacarcuna, Darien, Panama. Includes B. ignolus, the Pirri Warbler, of Mt. Pirri, Darien, Panama. 1 Includes B. salvini, Salvin’s Warbler, of s.e. Mexico (from s. Veracruz e.) to Brit. Honduras, n. cent. Guatemala and n. Honduras, which some authors regard as entitled to specific rank because of apparent overlap in range with rufifrons. True rufifrons (including its undoubted subspecies) ranges more widely in the high- lands of Mexico and into w. Guatemala. * Van Rossem suggests that delatrii may be conspecific with rufifrons] on that view, use Rufous-capped Warbler for the complex. “Zimmer treats this group as races of rivularis, of e. S. Am.; on that view, use River Warbler for the complex. Family PLOCEIDAE^ HOUSE SPARROWS AND WEAVERS Passer domesticus House Sparrow Old World, introduced N.Am., West Indies, Mexico, s. S. Am. Family ICTERIDAE AMERICAN ORIOLES AND BLACKBIRDS Zarhynchus wagleri Chestnut-headed Oropendola Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), Colombia and Ecuador. Gymnostinops montezuma Montezuma Oropendola Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to central Panama. Gymnostinops guatimozinus Bl.a.ck Oropendola E. Panama and Colombia. Psarocolius® decumanus Crested Oropendola Panama and S. Am. Cacicus cela® Yellow-rumped Cacique Panama and S. Am. Cacicus uropygialis^ Scarlet-rumped Cacique Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Cassiculus melanicterus Yellow- winged Cacique W. Mexico (s. Sonora to Chiapas). Amblycercus holosericeus Yellow-billed Cacique Mid. Am. and n. and w. S. Am. Psomocolax* oryzivorus Giant Cowbird Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and S. Am. Tangavius aeneus Bronzed or Red-eyed Cowbird S.w. U. S. and Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Molothrus ater Brown-headed Cowbird N. Am. and Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Molothrus bonariensis Shiny Cowbird E. Panama (one record, Darien), S. Am., Lesser Antilles. Quiscalus quiscula Purple Crackle E. N. Am.; winters to s. Texas; the race aeneus reported from Mexico (Tamaulipas, sight H. C. Oberholser). ^ Some authorities place Passer and its close allies in a separate family, Passeridae. ^ Hellmayr uses the name Xanihornus\ Ostinops has generally been used, but Psarocolius appears to have priority (Miller, Auk, 64; 373, 1947). ® Includes vitellinus of Panama and n.w. Colombia, often treated as a distinct species. If considered distinct, Saffron-rumped Cacique may be used. ’ Includes microrhynchus of Nicaragua to e. Panama, perhaps specifically distinct, and called Small-billed Cacique. An undoubted race of uropygialis occurs on the Pacific coast of Darien. * Parkes contends that Scaphidura has priority (Condor, 56: 229, 1954). [94] Cassidix mexicanus Boat-tailed Crackle S. U. S., Mid. Am. and Colombia. Cassidix palustris Slender-billed Crackle Mexico (marshes near Mexico City). Cassidix nicaraguensis Nicaraguan Crackle Nicaragua (Lakes Nicaragua and Managua). Euphagus carolinus Rusty Blackbird N. N. Am.; in winter accidental to n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.). Euphagus cyanocephalus Brewer’s Blackbird W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to Mexico and Cuatemala. Dives dives Melodious Blackbird E. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Cuatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.® Icterus spurius'® Orchard Oriole E. U. S. ; winters through Mid. Am. to n. S. Am. Icterus fuertesi^ Ochre Oriole E. Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz). Icterus prosthemelas Black-cowled Oriole Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to n.w. Panama (Bocas del Toro).® Icterus wagleri Black-vented Oriole Highlands Mexico, Cuatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and n. Nicaragua. Icterus parisorum Scott’s Oriole S.w. U. S. and Mexico (highlands). Icterus maculi-alatus Bar-winged Oriole Mexico (Chiapas), Cuatemala and El Salvador. Icterus cucuUatus Hooded Oriole S.w. U. S., Mexico, Brit. Honduras. Icterus auricapillus Orange-crowned Oriole E. Panama (Darien) and n. S. Am. Icterus mesomelas Yellow-tailed Oriole Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and n. and w. S. Am. Icterus chrysater Yellow-backed Oriole Trop. Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. ® Hellmayr considers warszewiczi and kalinowskii of s.w. Ecuador and w. Peru races of D. dives. “ This and the following seven species are placed in the genus Bananivorus by Beecher (Wilson Bull., 62: 60-68, 1950). 1 Perhaps a race of the Orchard Oriole, I. spurius. ^ The Bahaman northropi is treated as a subspecies by Hellmayr, but Bond and Beecher regard it as a race of the Greater Antillean dominicensis , which may be conspecific with prosthemelas, and is the earlier name. Icterus nigrogularis^ Yellow Oriole N. S. Am. (chiefly arid Caribbean) and Panama (?) (one doubtful record). Icterus graduacauda^ Black-headed Oriole Texas, Mexico (Tamaulipas and highlands) and n.w. Guatemala. Icterus pectoralis Spot-breasted Oriole Arid. s.e. Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and n.w. Costa Rica. Icterus gularis Black-throated Oriole Texas and Mid. Am. s. to Nicaragua. Icterus galbula Baltimore Oriole E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to Colombia. Icterus bullockii^ Bullock’s Oriole W. N. Am. to cent, highlands of Mexico; winters to Guatemala. Icterus auratus Orange Oriole Mexico (Yucatan and Meco I.). Icterus pustulatus® Flame-headed Oriole Mexico (Sonora to Veracruz and Guerrero); recorded in s. Arizona. Icterus graysonii® Tres Marias Oriole W. Mexico (Tres Marias Is.). Icterus sclateri® Streak-backed Oriole Trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras and Panama) from s. Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas) to n.w. Costa Rica. Agelaius tricolor Tricolored Blackbird Pacific U. S. and n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.). Agelaius phoeniceus Red-winged Blackbird N. Am., Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Hon- duras, w. Nicaragua and n.w. Costa Rica. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Yellow-headed Blackbird W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters in Mexico. Leistes militaris Red-breasted Blackbird Panama and S. Am. Stumella magna Common Meadowlark E. and s. N. Am., Cuba, Mid. Am. and n. S. Am. ® Formerly called xanthornus. ^ Formerly called melanocephalus. ® Includes abeillei, the Black-backed Oriole, of s. Mexican plateau (San Luis Potosi to Jalisco and Veracruz). ® Hellmayr and Blake treat graysonii and members of the sclateri group as races of pustulatus. On that view Streak-backed Oriole may be used for the complex, for the heads of the southern races are neither scarlet nor even orange. [96] Stumella neglecta Western Meadowlark W. N. Am. and n. Mexico; winters in Mexico (s. to Jalisco, Guanajuato and Veracruz). Dolichonyx oryzivorus Bobolink N. Am.; migrates chiefly through West Indies; recorded on migra- tion Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and Cozumel I.), Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; winters in S. Am. Family TERSINIDAE SWALLOW-TANAGERS Tersina viridis Swallow-Tanager E. Panama (Darien) and S. Am. Family THRAUPIDAE TANAGERS Chlorophonia occipitalis Blue-crowned Chlorophonia Mts. trop. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and n. Nicaragua. Chlorophonia callophrys’ Golden-browed Chlorophonia Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Tanagra elegantissima® Blue-hooded Euphonia Highlands Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Tanagra xanthogaster Orange-bellied Euphonia E. Panama (Darien) and S. Am. Tanagra anneae Tawny-capped Euphonia Highlands Costa Rica and Panama. Tanagra fulvicrissa Fulvous- vented Euphonia Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Tanagra minuta White-vented Euphonia Guatemala, Brit. Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Tanagra godmani® Pale-vented Euphonia W. Mexico (Sonora tojColima). Tanagra affinis Scrub Euphonia Trop. Mid. Am. from e. Mexico to n.w. Costa Rica (chiefly in semi-arid areas). ''Treated by Hellmayr as a race of occipitalis. If so, Blue-crowned Chlorophonia may stand as the name of the entire complex. * Treated by Hellmayr (and Blake) as conspecific with the West Indian musica group, in which he also includes several S. Am. forms. ® Blake considers this a race of T. affinis, the Scrub Euphonia. Tanagra luteicapilla Yellow-crowned Euphonia E. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Tanagra laniirostris Thick-billed Euphonia Costa Rica, Panama and S. Am. Tanagra lauta Yellow-throated Euphonia Trop. Mid. Am. (chiefly in the highlands) to w. Panama (Chiriqui). Tanagra gouldi Olive-backed Euphonia Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to n.w. Panama (Bocas del Toro). Tanagra imitans* *® Spot-crowned Euphonia S. Costa Rica and w. Panama (Chiriqui). Tangara^ florida Emerald Tanager Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Tangara chrysophrys Speckled® tanager Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Tangara icterocephala Silver-throated Tanager Highlands Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Tangara larvata® Golden-masked Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and n.w. S. Am. Tangara cabanisi Azure-rumped Tanager S. Mexico (Chiapas) and Guatemala. Tangara palmeri Gray-and-gold Tanager E. Panama (Darien), w. Colombia and Ecuador. Tangara inomata Plain-colored Tanager Cent. Panama to n.w. Colombia. Tangara gyrola Bay-headed Tanager^ Costa Rica, Panama and trop. S. Am. Tangara lavinia Rufous-winged Tanager Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Tangara dowii Spangle-cheeked Tanager Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. “ Formerly known as gracilis. . * This genus was formerly called Calliste, and by Ridgway and Hellmayr Calospiza. ® This much more suitable name, suggested by Skutch, replaces Ridgway’s “Yellow-browed” Tanager, which name Ridgway and Hellmayr also used for another Middle American species Chlorothraupis olivacea. “Spotted” Tanager has been used for several other species. ® Treated by Hellmayr and Blake as conspecific with the blue-headed T. nigro- cincta of S. Am. east of the Andes. On that view the species may be called Masked Tanager. ^ “Blue-rumped Green” Tanager, used for one of the Middle American races, is not appropriate for the species, as several races, including gyrola, have green rumps. Green-naped Tanager Tangara fucosa Mts. e. Panama (Mt. Pirri, Darien). Bangsia arcaei Blue-and-gold Tanager Foothills Carib. Costa Rica and w. Panama (Veraguas). Thraupis episcopus® Blue-gray Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Thraupis abbas Yellow-winged Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. from Mexico to n. Nicaragua. Thraupis palmarum Palm Tanager Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and trop. S. Am. Spindalis zena Stripe-headed Tanager Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Mexico (Cozumel I.). Ramphocelus dimidiatus Crimson-backed Tanager Panama and n.w. S. Am. Ramphocelus passerinii Scarlet-rumped Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to w. Panama. Ramphocelus icteronotus Yellow-rumped Tanager Panama, w. Colombia and Ecuador. Phlogothraupis sanguinolenta Crimson-collared Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to n.w. Panama (Bocas del Toro). Piranga rubra Summer Tanager S. U. S. and n. Mexico; winters through Mid. Am. to S. Am. Piranga flava Hepatic Tanager Highlands s.w. U. S. and Mid. Am. through most of S. Am. Piranga roseo-gularis Rose-throated Tanager Mexico (Yucatan Pen. and adjacent islands) and Guatemala (Peten). Piranga olivacea Scarlet Tanager E. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters S. Am. Piranga leucoptera White- winged Tanager Highlands trop. Mid. Am. to w. Panama; also S. Am. Piranga ludoviciana Western Tanager W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica (Miravalles). Piranga bidentata Flame-colored Tanager Mts. trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) to w. Panama. Piranga erythrocephala Red-headed Tanager W. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Oaxaca). ^ By some C3.Wed\irens. [99] Chlorothraupis olivacea Lemon-browed Tanager® E. Panama (Darien), w. Colombia and Ecuador. Chlorothraupis carmioli Olive Tanager Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru. Habia rubica Red-crowned Ant-Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. and S. Am. Habia fuscicauda^ Dusky-tailed Ant-Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. and Colombia. Habia atrimaxillaris^ Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager Pac. slope s. Costa Rica (Osa Pen. and vicinity). Lanio aurantius® Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Trop. s. Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras. Lanio leucothorax* White-throated Shrike-Tanager Nicaragua, Costa Rica and w. Panama. Tachyphonus rufus White-lined Tanager Costa Rica, Panama and trop. S. Am. Tachyphonus luctuosus White-shouldered Tanager Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Tachyphonus delatrii Tawny-crested Tanager Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Heterospingus rubrifrons® Sulphur-rumped Tanager Costa Rica and Panama. Eucometis penicillata Gray-headed Tanager Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to trop. S. Am. Mitrospingus cassinii Dusky-faced Tanager Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Rhodinocichla rosea Rose-breasted Thrush-Tanager Trop. w. Mexico (Sinaloa to Colima), Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Hemithraupis flavicollis Yellow-backed Tanager E. Panama (Darien) and trop. S. Am. Chrysothlypis chrysomelas Black-and-yellow Tanager Highlands Costa Rica and Panama. ® “Yellow-browed Tanager”, used by Ridgway and Hellmayr for this bird, was also used by Ridgway and Skutch for Tangara chrysophrys. To avoid confusion a modification of the name seems desirable. ’’ Hellmayr and others consider these forms races of H. gutturalis of the Magdalena Valley of Colombia. If so, the species name should be Red-throated Ant-Tanager. ® Hellmayr treats these as conspecific under the name aurantius; if so the name should be Great Shrike-Tanager. ® Regarded by Hellmayr as a “hen-feathered” race of H. xanthopygius of n.w. , Am. 1 100.1 Chlorospingus ophthalmicus' “ Common Bush-Tanager Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras), and S. Am. Chlorospingus pileatus Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama. Chlorospingus zeledoni' Volcano Bush-Tanager Mts. Costa Rica (Irazu and Turrialba volcanoes). Chlorospingus inomatus Mount Pirri Bush-Tanager Highlands e. Panama (Darien). Chlorospingus flavigularis Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager Highlands w. Panama (chiefly Carib. slope), n.w. S. Am. Chlorospingus canigularis Ashy- throated Bush-Tanager Highlands Carib. slope Costa Rica, and n.w. S. Am. Family FRINGILLIDAE FINCHES, GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS Saltator atriceps Black-headed Saltator Trop. Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Saltator maximus Buff-throated Saltator Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Saltator coerulescens Grayish Saltator Trop. Mid. Am. to cent. Costa Rica; also n. and e. S. Am. Saltator albicollis Streaked Saltator S.w. Costa Rica, Panama, n. and w. S. Am. and Lesser Antilles. Rhodothraupis celaeno Crimson-collared Grosbeak E. Mexico (s. Nuevo Leon to Veracruz and Puebla). Caryothraustes canadensis Green Grosbeak E. Panama (Darien) and trop. S. Am. e. of Andes. Caryothraustes poliogaster Black-faced Grosbeak Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) to cent. Panama. Pitylus grossus Slate-colored Grosbeak Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, S. Am. Richmondena cardinalis* Common Cardinal E. and s. U. S., Mexico and Brit. Honduras. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Pyrrhuloxia S.w. U. S. and w. Mexico (s. to Puebla). Pheucticus chrysopeplus Yellow Grosbeak Highlands w. Mexico and Guatemala. Zimmer is followed in treating punclulatus of w. Panama and tacarcunae of e. Panama as races of ophthalmicus-, Hellmayr treated tacarcunae as a race of flavi~ gularis. ‘ Carriker has suggested that this may be a color phase of pileatus. ® Includes carnea of s.w. Mexico (Colima to Oaxaca), by some regarded as a distinct species, which may be called Long-crested Cardinal. [101 1 Pheucticus tibialis* Black- thighed Grosbeak Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama. Pheucticus ludovicianus Rose-breasted Grosbeak E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. from s. Mexico to Colombia. Pheucticus melanocephalus Black-headed Grosbeak W. N. Am., n. and w. Mexico (chiefly in mts., Baja Calif, to Tamaulipas s. to Oaxaca and Veracruz); winters in Mexico. Guiraca caerulea Blue Grosbeak S. U. S. and Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) to n.w. Costa Rica; northern birds winter through Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Cyanocompsa cyanoides Blue-black Grosbeak Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and S. Am. Cyanocompsa parellina Blue Bunting Trop. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Passerina cyanea Indigo Bunting E. N. Am.; winters through Mid. Am. to cent. Panama. Passerina amoena Lazuli Bunting W. N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters in Mexico. Passerina versicolor Varied Bunting S.w. U. S., Mexico and Guatemala. Passerina rositae . Rose-bellied Bunting S. Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas). Passerina ciris Painted Bunting S. U. S. and n. Mexico; winters through Mid. Am. to w. Panama. Passerina leclancherii Orange-breasted Bunting S.w. Mexico (Colima to Chiapas). Tiaris olivacea Yellow-faced Grassquit Greater Antilles, trop. Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and n. S. Am. Spiza americana Dickcissel Cent. N. Am.; migrates through Mid. Am.; winters from s. Mexico to n. S. Am. Pinaroloxias inornata • Cocos Island Finch Costa Rica (Cocos Island). Hesperiphona vespertina Evening Grosbeak N. N. Am. and in mts. to Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Hesperiphona abeillei Hooded Grosbeak Mts. Mexico (Chihuahua and Tamaulipas s.) to Guatemala. Carpodacus purpureus Purple Finch N. N. Am. and in mts. to w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.). ’ Hellmayr considers this and several S. Am. forms to be races of the Yellow Grosbeak, P. chrysopeplus. [102] Carpodacus cassinii Cassin’s Finch Mts. w. N. Am. to w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to s. cent. Mexico. Carpodacus mexicanus^ House Finch W. N. Am. to Mexico (chiefly in west and in highlands elsewhere). Sporophila schistacea Slate-colored Seedeater Costa Rica, Panama and n. S. Am. Sporophila torqueola White-collared Seedeater S. Texas and Mid. Am. s. to Costa Rica. Sporophila aurita"’ Variable Seedeater Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador) and n.w. S. Am. Sporophila nigricollis® Yellow-bellied Seedeater S.w. Costa Rica, Panama, S. Am. and s. Lesser Antilles. Sporophila minuta Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Pac. slope Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and S. Am. Amaurospiza relicta^ Slate- blue Seedeater Mexico (Mts. Guerrero). Amaurospiza concolor Blue Seedeater Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and n.w. S. Am. Oryzoborus nuttingi® Nicaraguan Seed-Finch Caribbean slope of Nicaragua. Oryzoborus funereus® Thick-billed Seed-Finch Trop. Mid. Am. (e.xcept El Salvador) and n.w. S. Am. Volatinia jacarina Blue-black Grassquit Trop. Mid. Am., S. Am., s. Lesser Antilles (Grenada). Spinus pinus Pine Siskin N. N. Am. and mts. of Mexico (s. to Chiapas). Spinus atriceps Black-capped Siskin Mts. s. Mexico (Chiapas) and w. Guatemala. Spinus notatus Black-headed Siskin Mts. s.e. Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nica- ragua. ^ The San Benito House Finch {mcgregori) of San Benito I., and the Guadalupe House Finch (amplus) of Guadalupe I., Mexico are by some ornithologists regarded as distinct species. On that view mexicanus would be called Common House Finch. ® Includes corvina, Carib. slope of Mid. Am. to n.w. Panama, sometimes deemed a distinct species, the Black Seedeater. All are regarded by de Schauensee as races of the S. Am. 5. americana. ® Formerly called S. gutturalis. ’’ Described as Amaurospizopsis reUc(us\ closely related to A. concolor. * Treated by Hellmayr as a race of the S. Am. 0. crassiroslris, Large-billed Seed- Finch. ® Regarded by de Schauensee as a race of 0. angolensis of n. and e. S. Am. [103] Spinus xanthogaster Yellow-bellied Siskin Mts. Costa Rica, w. Panama and n.w. S. Am. Spinus tristis American Goldfinch N. Am. and n.w. Mexico; winters to Mexico.^® Spinus psaltria Lesser or Dark-backed Goldfinch W. N. Am., Mid. Am. (not reported Brit. Honduras) and n.w. S. Am. Spinus lawrencei Lawrence’s Goldfinch California to n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to n.w. Mexico. Loxia curvirostra Red Crossbill Holarctic region, in America follows coniferous forests (chiefly in mts.) through Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras and n. Nicaragua. Sicalis flaveola Saffron Finch S. Am.; introduced in Jamaica, cent. Panama (Gatun, photo- graphed, R. T. Scholes, seen E. Eisenmann). Sicalis luteola Yellow Grass-Finch S.e. Mexico, Guatemala, Panama (Cocl6), S. Am., s. Lesser Antilles. Spodiornis rusticus Slaty Finch Highlands s. Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas), Costa Rica, w. Panama, n. and w. S. Am. Acanthidops bairdi Peq-billed Finch Mts. Costa Rica. Pezopetes capitalis Large-footed Finch Mts. Costa Rica and w. Panama (Chiriqui). Pselliophorus tibialis Yellow- thighed Finch Highlands Costa Rica and w. Panama (w. Chiriqui). Pselliophorus luteoviridis Yellow-green Finch Highlands w. Panama (Cerro Flores, e. Chiriqui). Atlapetes pileatus Rufous-capped Brush-Finch Mts. of Mexico (Chihuahua and Tamaulipas to Guerrero). Atlapetes albinucha White-naped Brush-Finch Highlands s.e. Mexico (Veracruz to Chiapas), also Colombia. Atlapetes gutturalis Yellow-throated Brush-Finch Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras) Chiapas to N. S. Am. Atlapetes apertus^ Plain-breasted Brush-Finch Highlands s.e. Mexico (s. Veracruz). “ The one Guatemalan record appears to be an immature 5. psaltria ( fide A. R. Phillips). ' Perhaps a race of brunnei-nucha (see Parkes, Condor, 56: 132, 1954). [104] Atlapetes brunnei-nucha Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch Highlands trop. Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras), and n. S. Am. Atlapetes virenticeps^ Green-Striped Brush-Finch S. part of Mexican plateau. Atlapetes assimilis- Gray-striped Brush-Finch Highlands s.w. Costa Rica and w. Panama, also n.w. S. Am. Atlapetes atricapillus Black-headed Brush-Finch Highlands e. Panama (Darien) and Colombia. Lysurus crassirostris Sooty-faced Finch Highlands Costa Rica and \v. Panama. Arremon aurantiirostris Orange-billed Sparrow Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n.w. S. Am. Arremonops rufivirgatus Olive Sparrow Texas, Mexico, s.w. Nicaragua and n.w. Costa Rica. Arremonops conirostris Green-backed Sparrow Trop. Mid. Am. (except El Salvador), and n. S. Am. Chlorura chlorura Green-tailed Towhee W. U. S.; winters to cent. Mexico. Pipilo ocai Collared Towhee Mts. s. Mexico (Jalisco and Veracruz to Guerrero and Oaxaca). Pipilo macronyx^ Olive-backed Towhee Mts. cent. Mexico (Michoacan and Hidalgo to Oaxaca). Pipilo maculatus^ Spotted Towhee W. N. Am. and highlands (mts. farther south) Mexico to Guate- mala. Pipilo fuscus Brown Towhee W. U. S. and Mexico (Baja Calif., Sonora and interior highlands). Pipilo albicoUis^“ White-throated Towhee Mts. s. Mexico (Guerrero, Puebla, Oaxaca). Pipilo aberti Abert’s Towhee S.w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif, and n.w. Sonora). Melozone kieneri Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow Highlands w. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Chiapas), Guate- mala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica. * Considered by Hellmayr and others races of the S. Am. A. torquatus-, if so, the entire complex may be called Striped Brush-Finch. These birds, as well as brunnei- nucha, were placed in a genus Buarremon by Ridgway. ’ The A.O.U. Check-List Committee has recently accepted Sibley’s arguments for treating these forms as races of P. erythrophlhalmus of eastern North America (Auk, 71: 312; Sibley, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 56: 116-120). The A.O.U. Committee has adopted Rufous-sided Towhee as the English name for the entire complex. Often called rutilus (but cf. Stresemann, Condor, 1954: 91). [105] Melozone leucotis White- eared Ground-Sparrow Highlands s. Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Nica- ragua and Costa Rica. Oriturus^ superciliosus Striped Sparrow Mexican tableland (Sonora and Chihuahua s. to Michoacan and Veracruz). Calamospiza melanocorys Lark Bunting Cent. N. Am.; winters to Mexico (Baja Calif, and cent. Plateau). Passerculus sandwichensis Savannah Sparrow N. Am. and Mexico (n.w. coast and interior highlands), Guatemala (high mts.); winters to Guatemala and El Salvador. Ammodramus savannarum Grasshopper Sparrow N. Am. and locally through Mid. Am. to n.w. S. Am.; northern birds winter to El Salvador. Ammodramus bairdii Baird’s Sparrow Cent. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. Xenospiza baileyi Sierra Mad re Sparrow Mts. s.w. Mexico (Durango, Jalisco, Distrito Federal). Pooecetes gramineus \’esper Sparrow N. Am.; winters to Mexico and Guatemala. Chondestes grammacus Lark Sparrow Cent, and w. N. Am. and highlands n. Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango); winters to Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. Aimophila quinquestriata Five-striped Sparrow W. Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua to Jalisco). Aimophila mystacalis Bridled Sparrow Mts. s. Mexico (Wracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca). Aimophila humeralis Black-chested Sparrow Highlands s. Mexico (Colima to Morelos and Puebla). Aimophila ruficauda Stripe-headed Sparrow Arid areas s.w. Mexico (Durango s.), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and n.w. Costa Rica. Aimophila carpahs Rufous-winged Sparrow Arid areas Arizona and n.w. Mexico (Sonora and Sinaloa). Aimophila sumichrasti Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow Arid. s. Mexico (Oaxaca). Aimophila notosticta . Oaxaca Sparrow S.e. Mexico (Oaxaca and possibly Puebla). Aimophila rufescens Rusty Sparrow Arid areas trop. Mid. Am. s. to n.w. Costa Rica. * Plagiospiza superciliosa is preferred by Hellmayr and Ridgway. [106] Aimophila ruficeps Rufous-crowned Sparrow S.w. U. S. and highlands Mexico (s. to Veracruz and Oaxaca). Aimophila botterii Botteri’s Sparrow S.w. U. S. and Mexico (highlands chiefly, lowlands in Tamaulipas), and w. Guatemala. Aimophila petenica® Yellow-carpalled Sparrow S.e. Mexico, Guatemala, w. Nicaragua and n.w. Costa Rica. Aimophila cassinii Cassin’s Sparrow S.w. U. S. to n. Mexico; winters in Mexico. Amphispiza bilineata Black- throated Sparrow Arid areas of s.w. U. S. and n. and w. Mexico (s. to Durango and Hidalgo). Amphispiza belli Sage Sparrow Arid areas of w. U. S. and n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.); winters to n.w. Mexico. Junco hyemalis® Slate-colored Junco N. N. Am.; winters casually to n.w. Mexico. Junco oreganus^ Oregon Junco W. N. Am. and in mts. to n.w. Mexico (n. Baja Calif.); winters to n.w. Mexico. Junco caniceps® Gray-headed Junco Rocky Mts. of U. S.; winters to n.w. Mexico. Junco phaeonotus® Yellow- eyed Junco Mts. s. Arizona through Mexico to Guatemala. Junco vulcani Volcano Junco Volcanic summits near or above timberline in Costa Rica and w. Panama. Spizella passerina Chipping Sparrow N. Am. s. through highlands Mid. Am. to n.e. Nicaragua. Spizella pallida Clay-colored Sparrow Cent. N. Am.; winters to Mexico and casually Guatemala. Spizella breweri Brewer’s Sparrow Arid areas Great Basin and mts. w. N. Am.; winters to Mexico. ® Hellmayr suggests this group may be races of Botteri’s Sparrow, A. botterii. ® Many ornithologists would treat as races of hyemalis, the members of the oreganus and caniceps groups. ^ Includes the Guadalupe Junco, insularis (Guadalupe I.), regarded by A. Miller as a species. * Includes dorsalis (formerly regarded as a race of phaeonotus), which winters to Mexico. ’Includes Baird’s Junco, bairdi (Cape Dist., Baja Calif.), Chiapas Junco, /«/- vescens (Chiapas highlands), and Guatemala Junco, alticola (mts. of Guatemala and adjacent e. Chiapas), each regarded as a species by A. Miller. [107] Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla N, Am. e. of Rockies; winters to n.e. Mexico. Spizella wortheni^® Worthen’s Sparrow S.w. U. S. to n. Mexico (Tamaulipas); winters to s. Mexico. Spizella atrogularis Black-chinned Sparrow S.w. U. S. and highlands w. Mexico (to Guerrero and Puebla). Zonotrichia leucophrys White-crowned Sparrow N. Am. ; winters to highlands cent. Mexico. Zonotrichia atricapilla^ Golden-crowned Sparrow N.w. N. Am.; winters to n.w. Mexico (Baja Calif.). Zonotrichia albicollis White-throated Sparrow N.e. N. Am.; winters to n.e. Mexico, casual Guadalupe I. off Baja Calif. Zonotrichia capensis^" Rufous-collared Sparrow Highlands Mid. Am. (except Brit. Honduras), from Chiapas to cent. Panama, most of S. Am. (montane in trop. latitudes), Hispaniola, Curasao, Aruba. Passerella iliaca Fox Sparrow N. N. Am. s. in mts. to California; winters to n.w. Mexico. Melospiza^ lincolnii Lincoln’s Sparrow N. N. Am.; winters Mexico, Brit. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras; one Panama spec. Melospiza georgiana Swamp Sparrow E. N. Am.; winters to Mexico (Jalisco and Tamaulipas). Melospiza melodia Song Sparrow N. Am. and Mexico (Baja Calif, and plateau region to Michoacan and Puebla). Emberizoides herbicola Wedge-tailed Ground-Finch S.w. Costa Rica, w. Panama, and S. Am. (chiefly e. of the Andes). Rhynchophanes mccownii McCown’s Longspur Cent. N. Am.; winters to n. Mexico (Chihuahua and Durango). Calcarius omatus Chestnut-collared Longspur Cent. N. Am.; winters to Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua and Vera- cruz). May be conspecific with S. pusilla, the Field Sparrow. * Formerly known as Z. coronala. Sometimes placed in a separate genus Brachyspiza. * Some ornithologists merge this genus in Passerella. [108] BIBLIOGRAPHY The following list is by no means complete. Only works of special use- fulness for distribution or identification are included. A very few ecological papers are noted. Regional check-lists mentioning earlier literature and summarizing prior distributional information, are marked by an asterisk; those covering a whole country by a double asterisk. Few papers published prior to 1900 are included, because the locality data are usually repeated in the Ridgway or Hellmayr works listed below, or in the regional check-lists mentioned. GENERAL American Ornithologists’ Union Committee. 1931. Check-list of North Ameri- can birds. 4th. ed. This work and its Supplements, Nineteenth to Twenty- ninth inclusive (published between 1944 and 1954 in the Auk), involve the nomenclature and distribution of many Middle American species. Bent, A. C. 1924-1953. Life histories of North American birds. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bull. The recent volumes contain data (often not elsewhere published) on occurrences in Middle America of North American species. Chapman, F. M. 1917. The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 36: 1-729. The first part of this work (and the next), describing distribution of forests, the life-zones, and the extension of the Subtropical Zone into Central America (pp. 70-158), is of the greatest interest to a student of Middle American bird distribution. Chapman, F. M. 1926. The Distribution of Bird-Life in Ecuador. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 55: 1-784. See particularly pp. 23-133. Griscom, L. 1945. Modern Bird Study. Harvard Univ. Press. A very able, and more up-to-date, discussion of the distribution and origin of birds in Middle America is contained in chapters VII and VIII. Harrower, D. E. 1936. The habits of the passerine birds of Central America, with particular reference to their breeding. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell Univ. Copy in Cornell Univ. Library. A very useful compilation. Hellmayr, C. E. 1924-1949. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 13, pts. 1-11. (Begun by C. B. Cory and completed by B. Conover.) Lists each form, giving distribution, synonymy, often discussing taxonomy and distinguishing characters of critical subspecies. The volumes written by Hellmayr are the chief modern authority on neotropical taxonomy. Murphy, R. C. 1936. Oceanic Birds of South America. Vols. 1-2. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. The information regarding the factors controlling sea-bird distri- bution is not limited to South America. There is also much detail as to Cocos L, Costa Rica, and the Pearl Is., Panama. Peters, J. L. 1931-1951. Check-List of Birds of the World. Vols. 1-7. Harvard Univ. Press. The volumes so far published cover Struthionidae to Rhinocryptidae. One of the chief modern authorities on technical nomenclature. Ridgway, R. 1901-1950. Birds of North and Middle America. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 50, pts. 1-11. (Continued by H. Friedmann, who prepared pts. 9-11.) [109] Though the nomenclature of the Ridgway parts is somewhat outmoded and the work is still incomplete (Tinamiformes to Anseriformes remain to be treated), this work is of basic importance and usefulness. It provides full descriptions of almost all Middle American forms, with drawings of generic characters, and also gives detailed distributional data, and synonymies. Salvin, O. and F. D. Godman. 1879-1904. Biologia Central! Americana: Aves. Vols. 1-3. Despite the outmoded nomenclature, this expensive work, with many colored plates, simple species descriptions (in Latin), and often discussion in English of behavior, habitat and Middle American distribution, is still useful. The introduction in volume 1 (published last) gives in tabular form the distribu- tion, as then understood, of each species by countries. Sharpe, R. B. and others. 1888-1898. Catalogue of Birds of the British Museum. Vols. 1-28. For species not treated in Ridgway’s work, brief descriptions usually can be found here. Shelford, V, E. AND OTHERS. 1926. Naturalist’s Guide to the Americas. Williams & Wilkins Co. Section 3A, Mexico and Central America, gives concise descrip- tions of topography, climate and major ecological features. Skutch, a. F. 1954. Life histories of Central American Birds. Cooper Orn. Soc. Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 31. Detailed accounts of 40 species of Coerebidae, Parulidae, Thraupidae, Icteridae and Fringillidae, with drawings of each, many photographs, and much comparative material. Zimmer, J. T. 1931-1953. Studies of Peruvian Birds. Nos. 1-65. Amer. Mus. Novit. nos. 500 et seq. This series of taxonomic papers, though primarily relating to Peruvian birds, contains important discussions regarding taxonomy and nomenclature of many species found in Middle America, and often lists localities in that area not elsewhere published. MEXICO Entire country **Blake, E. R. 1953. Birds of Mexico: A Guide for Field Identification. Univ. of Chicago Press. A pocket guide, providing concise descriptions of 967 species, with many line drawings. It serves also as a Mexican check-list, for technical names and Mexican ranges of each subspecies (some 2000) are stated. Indis- pensable in Mexico, useful elsewhere in Middle -America. Davis, L. I. et al. 1947-1954. Mexican breeding-bird censuses. Aud. Field Notes, 1-8 (no. 6). Valuable studies made each year in different localities and habitats. **Edwards, E. P. 1955. Finding Birds in Mexico. 101 pp. E. P. Edwards & Co., -Amherst, Va. Where to find birds along the highways, with ecological and other useful data, including a list of almost all Mexican species. **Friedmann, H., L. Griscom and R. T. Moore. 1950. Distributional Check- List of the Birds of Mexico. Pt. 1 (Tinamidae to Trochilldae). Pac. Coast Av. no. 29. Cooper Orn. Club. Gives localities where each form has been collected. When complete it will be the basic distributional work on Mexico. Goldman, E. A. 1951. Biological Investigations in Mexico. Smith. Misc. Coll, vol. 115. Describes topography and vegetation of each Mexican state as found on expeditions between 1892-1906, with photographs. Discusses life zones and biotic provinces, listing characteristic plants, birds and mammals. Goldman, E. A. and R. T. Moore. 1945. The biotic provinces of Mexico. Journ. Mam., 26: 347-360. Describes the biotic provinces. [110] Griscom, L. 1950. Distribution and origin of the birds of Mexico. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 103, no. 6: 341-382. Discusses the origin and analyzes the various elements of the Mexican avifauna. Leopold, A. S. 1950. The vegetation zones of Mexico. Ecology, 31(4): 507-518. A valuable ecological study, with a vegetation map. Sutton, G. M. 1951. Mexican Birds. Univ. of Okla. Press. Beautiful plates, many drawings and an appendix summarizing the Mexican avifauna make this book much more than a charming ornithological travelogue of “First Impressions”. The following groupings of Mexican states are simply for bibliographic convenience and do not imply bio-geographic relationship {cf. Goldman and Moore, supra). In a few cases a paper listed under one grouping may contain important data relating to other states; the broader scope is indicated in the title of the paper or in the comment. Northwest Pacific:^ Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit Bancroft, G. 1930. The breeding birds of central Lower California. Condor, 32: 20-49. *Bond, J. and R. M. de Schauensee. 1944. The birds of the Tres Marias Islands. In Results of the Fifth George Vanderbilt Expedition (1941). Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. Mon. No. 6: 45-56. Grayson, A. J. and G. N. Lawrence. 1871. On the physical geography and natural history of the islands of the Tres Marias and of Socorro, off the western coast of Mexico. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 14: 261-302. *Grinnell, j. It; 1928. A distributional summation of the ornithology of Lower California. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 32: 1-300. The basic Baja California check-list. Hill, H. M. and I. L. Wiggins. 1948. Ornithological notes from Lower Cali- fornia. Condor, 50: 155-161. *Howell, T. R. anp T. j. Cade. 1954. The birds of Guadalupe Island in 1953. Condor, 56: 283-294. A complete check-list. Kenyon, K. W. 1947. Notes on occurrences of birds in Lower California. Condor, 49: 210. McLellan, M. E. 1926. Expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, in 1925. The birds and mammals. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 15: 279-322. McLellan, M. E. 1927. Notes on birds of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico in the Fall of 1926. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 16: 1-15. Miller, W. DeW. 1905. List of birds collected in southern Sinaloa, Mexico by J. H. 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List of mammals and birds collected in northeastern Sonora and northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico on the Lumholtz archaelogical expedi- tion, 1890-1892. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 27-42. Bailey, A. M. and H. B. Conover. 1935. Notes from the state of Durango, Mexico. Auk, 52: 421-424. JoUY, P. L. 1894. Notes on birds of central Mexico, with descriptions of forms believed to be new. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 16: 771-791. Knoblich, I. W. 1950. Una lista de pajaros reconocidos en el Estado de Chihuahua. Ann. Inst. Biol. Mexico, 21: 155-157. Miller, W. DeW. 1906. List of birds collected in northwestern Durango, Mexico, by J. H. Batty, during 1903. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 22: 161-183. Stager, K. E. 1954. Birds of the Barranca de Cobre Region of southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. Condor, 56: 21-34. VAN Rossem, A. J. 1934. Critical notes on Middle American birds. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77: 424-490. Part C of this paper, “A systematic report on the Brewster collection of Mexican birds” deals largely with Chihuahua and adjacent Sonora. Webster, J. D. and R. T. Orr. 1952. Notes on Mexican birds from the states of Durango and Zacatecas. Condor, 54: 309-313. Webster, J. D. and R. T. Orr. 1954. Summering birds of Zacatecas, Mexico, with a description of a new race of Worthen Sparrow. Condor, 56: 155-160. Webster, J. D. and R. T. Orr. 1954. Miscellaneous notes on Mexican birds. Wilson Bull., 66: 267-269. Chiefly Durango and Guerrero, but also Revilla Gigedo Is., Sinaloa, San Luis Potosi and Jalisco. South Pacific: Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas Alvarez del Toro, M. 1952. Contribucion al conocimiento de la oologia y nidologia de las aves chiapanecas. Ateneo, 4: 11-21. Alvarez del Toro, M. 1952. New records of birds from Chiapas, Mexico. Condor, 54: 112-114. Alvarez del Toro, M. 1952. Los Animales Silvestres de Chiapas. Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Though a popular work, the chapter “Aves” (pp. 91-180) contains original information as to habitat and behavior of many birds. Alvarez del Toro, M. 1954. Notes on the occurrence of birds in Chiapas, Mexico. Condor, 56: 365. Bangs, O. and J. L. Peters. 1928. A collection of birds from Oaxaca. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 68: 305-404. Berlioz, J. 1939. Etude d’une collection d’oiseaux du Chiapas (Mexique). Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 2, 11: 360-377. Relates to Comitan district. Blake, E. R. 1950. Report on a collection of birds from Guerrero, Mexico. Fieldiana Zool. 31, no. 39: 375-393. Blake, E. R. 1950. Report on a collection of birds from Oaxaca, Mexico. Fieldiana Zool. 31, no. 40: 395-419. Blake, E. R. and H. C. Hanson. 1942. Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., 22, no. 9: 513-551. [112] Brodkorb, P. 1938. New birds from the district of Soconusco, Chiapas. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. no. 369: 1-7. Brodkorb, P. 1939. Rediscovery of Heleodytes chiapensis and Tangara cahanisi. Auk, 56: 447-450. Brodkorb, P. 1940. New birds from southern Mexico. Auk, 57: 542-549. Brodkorb, P. 1943. Notes on two rare birds in Chiapas, Mexico. Auk, 60: 281-281. Davis, J. 1953. Birds of the Tzitzio Region, Michoacan, Mexico. Condor, 55: 90-98. Davis, W. B. 1944. Notes on summer birds of Guerrero. Condor, 46: 9-14. Edwards, E. P. and R. B. Lea. 1955. Birds of the Montserrate Area, Chiapas, Mexico. Condor, 57: 31-54. Hoffmeister, D. F. 1951. A western record of the Quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno, and Chachalaca, Penelopina nigra, in Mexico. Auk, 68: 507-508. *Griscom, L. 1934. The ornithology of Guerrero, Mexico. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 75: 367-422. The basic Guerrero check-list. Griscom, L. 1937. A collection of birds from Omilteme, Guerrero. Auk, 54: 192-199. Lea, F. B. and E. P. Edwards. 1952. Notes on birds of the Lake Patzcuaro Region, Michoacan, Mexico. Condor, 52: 260-271. Martin del Campo, R. 1948. Contribucion para el conocimiento de la fauna ornitologica del estado de Guerrero. Ann. Inst. Biol. Mex., 19(1): 241-266. Lists Guerrero specimens, with localities, in the Institute Biologico, adding a few to the Guerrero avifauna. Sutton, G. M. 1953. New birds for the state of Michoacan, Mexico. Wilson Bull., 64: 221-223. Tashian, R. E. 1952. Birds from the Palenque region of northeastern Chiapas, Mexico, Auk, 69: 60-66. Zimmerman, D. A. and G. B. Harry. 1951. Summer birds of Autlan, Jalisco. Wilson Bull., 63: 302-314. Northeast: Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi. Amadon, D. and a. R. Phillips. 1947. Notes on Mexican birds. Auk, 64: 576-581. Chiefly Coahuila; some Durango and Hidalgo data. Burleigh, T. D. and G. H. Lowery, Jr. 1942. Notes on the birds of south- eastern Coahuila. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. State Univ., 12: 185-212. Davis, L. I. 1952. Winter bird census at Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Condor, 54: 345-355. Eaton, S. W. and E. P. Edwards. 1948. Notes on the birds of the Gomez Farias region of Tamaulipas. Wilson Bull., 60: 109-114. Evenden, F. G., Jr. 1952. Notes on Mexican bird distribution. Wilson Bull., 64: 112-113. Chiefly observations from the northeast, but also some in Zacatecas, Durango and Hidalgo. Graber, R. R. and J. W. Graber. 1954. Yellow-headed Vulture in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Condor, 56: 165-166 Phillips, J. C. 1911. A year’s collecting in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Auk, 28: 67-89. Martin, P. S., C. R. Robins and W. B. Heed. 1954. Birds and biogeography of the Sierra de Tamaulipas, an isolated pine-oak habitat. Wilson Bull., 66: 38-57. Robins, C. R., P. S. Martin and W. B. Heed. 1951. Frigatebird, Oyster- catcher, Upland Plover, and various terns on the coast of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Wilson Bull., 63: 336. 1113] Robins, C. R. and W. B. Heed. 1951. Bird notes from La Joya de Salas, Tamaulipas. Wilson Bull., 63: 263-270. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1939. A list of birds observed on the 1938 Semple Expedition to northeastern Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. State Univ., 3: 15-46. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1940. Birds of Valles, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Condor, 42: 259-262. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1940. Birds of Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosi. Wilson Bull., 52: 221-233. Sutton, G. M., O. S. Pettingill, Jr., and R. B. Lea. 1942. Notes on the birds of the Monterrey District of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Wilson Bull., 54: 199-203. Sutton, G. M. and O. S. Pettingill, Jr. 1943. Birds of Linares and Galeana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. State Univ., 16: 273-290. Sutton, G. M. and O. S. Pettingill, Jr. 1944. Birds of the Gomez Farias region, Tamaulipas. Auk, 59: 1-34. Sutton, G. M., R. B. Lea and E. P. Edwards. 1950. Notes on the ranges and breeding habits of certain Mexican birds. Bird-Banding, 21: 45-59. South central: Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Morelos, Puebla. Moore, R. T. 1945. The Transverse Volcanic Biotic Province of Central Mexico and its relationship to adjacent provinces. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 10: 217-236. Covers more than the states listed above. Newman, R. J. 1954. Toxostoma ocellatum and Diglossa baritula in Hidalgo. Condor, 56: 361. Paynter, R. a., Jr. 1952. Birds from Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, Mexico. Auk, 69; 293-301. Pitelka, F. a. 1948. Notes on the distribution and taxonomy of Mexican game birds. Condor, 50: 113-128. Contains many records from south central area, also Sonora, Guerrero, Chiapas and elsewhere. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1941. Birds recorded in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, by the Semple Expedition of 1939. Ann. Cam. Mus., 28: 169-186. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1942. Birds recorded in the Federal District and states of Puebla and Mexico by the 1939 Semple Expedition. Auk, 59: 418-423. So. Gulf and Caribbean: Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo. Amadon, D. and D. R. Eckelberry. 1955. Observations on Mexican birds. Condor, 57: 65-80. 111. Chiefly notes on Veracruz, Chiapas, Mexico, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Puebla. Bangs, O. and J. L. Peters. 1927. Birds of the rain forest region of Vera Cruz. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 67: 471-487. *Brodkorb, P. 1943. Birds of the Gulf Lowlands of southern Mexico. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 55: 1-88. A basic check-list of Tabasco, with notes on adjacent parts of Veracruz, Campeche and Chiapas. Brodkorb, P. 1948. Some birds of the lowlands of central Veracruz, Mexico. Quart. Jour. Florida Acad. Sci., 10; 31-38. Chapman, F. M. 1896. Notes on birds observed in Yucatan. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 8: 271-290. Chapman, F. M. 1898. Notes on birds observed at Jalapa and Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 10: 15-43. [114] Cole, L. J. 1906. Aves from Yucatan. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 50: 109-146. Davis, W. B. 1945. Notes on Veracruzan birds. Auk, 62: 272-286. Griscom, L. 1926. The ornithological results of the Mason-Spinden expedition to Yucatan. Pt. 1. Introduction. Birds of the mainland of eastern Yucatan. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nov. No. 235: 1-19. Griscom, L. 1926. The ornithological results of the Mason-Spinden expedition to Yucatan. Pt. 2. Chinchorro Bank and Cozumel Island. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Nov. No. 236: 1-13. *Loetscher, F. W., Jr. 1941. Ornithology of the Mexican state of Veracruz, with an annotated list of the birds. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell Univ. Copy in Cornell Univ. Library. An annotated check-list for Veracruz. Loetscher, F. W., Jr. 1955. North American migrants in the state of Veracruz, Mexico: a summary. Auk, 72: 14-54. Lowery, G. H., Jr. and W. W. Dalquest. 1951. Birds from the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 531-649. An important paper on the area. Lowery, G. H., Jr. and R. J. Newman. 1949. New birds from the state of San Luis Potosi and the Tuxtla Mountains of Veracruz, Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. La. State Univ., 22: 1-10. Paynter, R. a. Jr. 1950. Rare migration and wintering records from the Yucatan Peninsula, Postilla, 2: 1-7. Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1953. Migrants on the Campeche Bank. Auk, 70: 338-349. Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1954. Two species new to the Mexican avifauna. Auk, 71: 204. *Paynter, R. a., Jr. 1955. The Ornithogeography of the Yucatan Peninsula. Peabody Mus. Bull., 9: 1-347. Yale Univ. Peters, J. L. 1913. List of birds collected in the territory of Quintana Roo, Mexico, in the winter and spring of 1912. Auk, 30: 367-380. Lists 132 species. Sutton, G. M. and T. D. Burleigh. 1940. Birds of Las Vigas, Veracruz. Auk, 57: 234-243. Traylor, M. A., Jr. 1941. Birds from the Yucatan Peninsula. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. 24, no. 19: 195-225. Lists 217 species from Yucatan and Campeche. Traylor, M. A., Jr. 1949. Notes on some Veracruz birds. Fieldiana Zool., 31: 269-275. Van Tyne, J. and Trautman, M. B. 1941. New birds from Yucatan. Univ. Mich. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. no. 439: 1-11. Warner, D. W. and R. M. Mengel. 1951. Notes on birds of the Veracruz coastal plain. Wilson Bull., 63: 288-295. Wetmore, a. 1943. The birds of southern Veracruz, Mexico, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 93: 215-340. An important paper relating to the Tuxtla area. BRITISH HONDURAS There is no check-list, and the literature specifically devoted to this colony is scanty. The basis for a list to 1904 may be compiled from the tables in volume 1 of Salvin and Godman, Biologia Centrali Americana, Azes. Austin, O. L., Jr. 1929. Birds of the Cayo District, British Honduras. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 363-394. A collection of 157 species, many not there- tofore reported; gives bibliography. Bangs, O. and M. E. Peck. 1908. On some rare and new birds from British Honduras. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 21: 43-46. [115] *Bond, J. 1954. Birds of Turneffe and Northern Two Cays, British Honduras. Not. Nat. no. 260: 1-10. Lantz, D. E. 1899. A list of birds collected by Col. N. S. Goss in Mexico and Central America. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 16: 218-224. A number of the birds listed have British Honduras localities. Peck, M. E. 1910. The effect of natural enemies on the nesting habits of some British Honduras birds. Condor, 12: 53-60. Salvin, O. 1864. A fortnight amongst the sea-birds of British Honduras. Ibis, 1864: 372-387. GUATEMALA Carriker, M. a., Jr. and R. M. de Schauensee. 1935. An annotated list of two collections of Guatemalan birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 87: 411-455. **Griscom, L. 1932. The distribution of bird-life in Guatemala. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 64: 1-439. The Guatemalan check-list, with localities, bibliography, discussion of faunistics and taxonomic notes. Lists 736 forms. Griscom, L. 1935. The birds of Sierra de las Minas, Eastern Guatemala. Ibis, 1935: 801-837. Saunders, G. B. 1950. The game birds and shorebirds of Guatemala. In A Fish and Wildlife Survey of Guatemala. U. S. Dept. Int. Fish and Wildlife Serv. Spec. Sci. Kept. no. 5: 3-98. Gives descriptions and information as to status and behavior of birds treated, banding recoveries in Guatemala, and good bibliography. Steyermark, J. a. 1950. Flora of Guatemala. Ecology 31(3): 368-372. An ecological study, with good map showing the various vegetation regions. Tashian, R. E. 1953. The birds of southeastern Guatemala. Condor, 55: 198-210. VAN Rossem, a. j. 1934. Critical notes on Middle American birds. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77: 387-405. Part A of this paper “Notes on some sp>ecies and subspecies of Guatemala birds” contains a few additions to the avifauna. V'.AN Tyne, J. 1935. The birds of northern Peten, Guatemala. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. Misc. Pub. no. 27: 1-47. Adds 21 forms to Guatemala. Wetmore, a. 1941. Notes on the birds of the Guatemalan highlands. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 89: 523-581. EL SALVADOR Cooke, M. T. 1941. Banded birds recovered in El Salvador. Auk, 58: 589-590. **Dickey, D. R. and a. j. van Rossem. 1938. The birds of El Salvador. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 23, Publ. 406: 1-609. A masterly annotated check-list, with data on distribution, ecology, moults, taxonomy, behavior, and bibliography. Lists 446 forms. Marshall, J. T., Jr. 1943. Additional information concerning the birds of El Salvador. Condor, 45: 21-33. Adds several species. HONDURAS Bond, James. 1936. Resident birds of the Bay Islands of Spanish Honduras. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 88: 353-364. Carr, A. F., J r. 1950. Outline for a classification of animal habitats in Honduras. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 94(10): 563-594. An ecological study. [116] Carr, M. J. and J. C. Dickinson, Jr. 1951. The San Geronimo Swift in Honduras, Wilson Bull., 63: 271-273. Refers also to several other species. Deignan, H. G. 1936. Notes on a small collection of birds from the Republic of Honduras. Auk, 53: 186-193. Griscom, L. 1932. New Birds from Honduras and Nicaragua. Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, 13: 55-62. **Stone, W. 1932. The birds of Honduras. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 84: 291-342. A distributional check-list, with bibliography. Lists 420 forms. NICARAGUA There is no published check-list for Nicaragua, though there is much data scattered through the literature. A basic check-list to 1904 can be compiled from the tables in Biologia Centrali Americana. Griscom, L. 1932. (See under Honduras.) Huber, W. 1932. Birds collected in northeastern Nicaragua in 1922. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 84: 205-249. Miller, W. DeW. and L. Griscom. 1921. Descriptions of proposed new birds from Central America, with notes on other little known forms. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nov. No. 25: 1-13. Miller, W. DeW. and L. Griscom. 1925. Description of new birds from Nicaragua. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nov. No. 159: 1-9. Miller, W. DeW. and L. Griscom. 1925. Notes on Central American birds with descriptions of new forms. An. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nov. No. 183: 1-14. Miller, W. DeW. and L. Griscom. 1925. Further notes on Central American birds, with descriptions of new forms. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nov. No. 184: 1-16. Rendahl, H. 1919. Notes on a collection of birds from Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Arkiv. for Zool., 12(8): 1-36. Lists 139 forms from Nicaragua, 73 from Costa Rica, 28 from Panama, collected by C. Bovallius in 1882-1883. Richmond, C. W. 1893. Notes on a collection of birds from eastern Nicaragua and the Rio Frio, Costa Rica. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 16: 479-530. COSTA RICA **Carriker, M. a., Jr. 1910. An annotated list of the birds of Costa Rica, including Cocos Island. Ann. Cam. Mus., 6, nos. 2-4: 314-915. An excellent check-list, with localities, information about habitat and behavior, and bibliog- raphy of Costa Rican ornithology. Lists 753 forms. *Cherrie, G. K. 1891-1892. A preliminary list of the birds of San Jos6, Costa Rica. Auk, 8: 271-279. Auk, 9: 21-27, 247-251, 322-329. Reports 162 species collected within a radius of two miles of the city, with notes on status and habits. Ferry, J. F. 1910. Catalogue of a collection of birds from Costa Rica. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Orn. Sen, 1: 257-282. Gifford, E. W. 1913. The birds of the Galapagos Islands, with observations of the birds of Cocos and Clipperton Islands (Columbiformes to Pelecani- formes). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. Fourth ser. 2, pt. 1: 1-132. Gifford, E. W. 1919. Field notes on the land birds of the Galapagos Islands and of Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. Fourth ser. 2, pt. 2: 189-258. Griscom, L. 1933. Notes on the Havemeyer Collection of Central American birds. Auk, 50: 297-308. Costa Rican birds on pp. 297-300. [117] Rendahl, H. 1919. (See under Nicaragua.) Sassi, M. a. 1938-1939. Die Vogel der osterreichischen Costa-Rica-Expedition. Erster Teil. Temminckia, 3: 279-232. Zweiter Teil. Temminckia, 4: 135-222. Smith, A. 1931. New records of several species of birds rare or local in Costa Rica. Condor, 33: 249-®6. Smith, A. 1932. Some records for Costa Rica. Auk, 49: 496-497. *Snodgrass, R. E. and E. Heller. 1902. The birds of Clipperton and Cocos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 4: 501-520. Lists species known from these islands up to that time. This paper was apparently overlooked by Carriker. SwARTH, H. S. 1931. The avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., 18: 1-299. Includes some records from Cocos I., Costa Rica. Wetmore, a. 1944. A collection of birds from northern Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 95: 25-80. PANAMA Aldrich, J. W. and B. P. Bole. 1937. Birds and mammals of the western slope of the Azuero Peninsula, Republic of Panama. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci. Pub. 7: 1-196. Bird part written by Aldrich. Aldrich, J. W. 1945. Notes on Panamanian birds. Auk, 62: 111-114. Mentions two species not listed by Griscom. Arbib, R. S. and F. Loetscher, Jr. 1935. Some notes from the Panama Canal Zone — Summer 1934. Auk, 52: 326. Adds sight reports of a few shore birds not previously recorded from Panama. Bangs, O. 1901. On a collection of birds made by W. W. Brown, Jr. at David and Divala, Chiriqui. Auk, 23: 356-370. Bangs, O. 1902. On a second collection of birds made in Chiriqui by W. W. Brown, Jr. Proc. New England Zool. Club, 3: 15-70. Bangs, 0. and Barbour, T. 1922. Birds from Darien. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 65, no. 6: 191-229. Bond, J. and R. M. de Schauensee. 1944. Results of the Fifth George Vander- bilt Expedition (19^). Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. Mon., 6: 22-45. A collection of birds from Cape Garachine and Mount Sapo, Darien. Davidson, M. E. M. 1938. On some birds rare in, or hitherto unrecorded from, Chiriqui Province, Panama. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 17: 255-261. Eisenmann, E. 1948. Surf-bird and Vermilion Flycatcher in Panama. Auk, 65: 605-606. Eisenmann, E. 1950. Some notes on Panama birds collected by J. H. Batty, Auk, 67: 363-366. Highland species reported collected on low islands off Pacific coast. Eisenmann, E. 1951. Northern birds summering in Panama. Wilson Bull., 63: 181-185. *Eisenmann, E. 1952. Annotated list of birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. Smith. Misc. Coll. 117, no. 5: 1-62. Breeding and migration dates, full bibliography; adds to the Canal Zone and Panama avifauna. 306 species listed in 5.6 sq. miles. Griscom, L. 1924. Descriptions of new birds from Panama and Costa Rica. Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 141. Chiefly from mts. of eastern Chiriqui and coast of Veraguas. [118] Griscom, L. 1927. Undescribed or little known birds from Panama. Amer. Mus. Novit. no. 280. Coll, in Veraguas, Los Santos and Code. Griscom, L. 1927. An ornithological reconnaissance in eastern Panama in 1927. Amer. Miis. Novit., no. 282. Griscom, L. 1929. A collection of birds from Darien. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69, no. 8: 149-190. Griscom, L. 1932. The ornithology of the Caribbean coast of extreme eastern Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 72, no. 9; 303-372. **Griscom, L. 1935. The ornithology of the Republic of Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 78, no. 3: 261-382. The basic Panama check-list, with bibliog- raphy, and discussion of geography and faunal relations. Over 800 species, 1038 forms listed. Imhof, T. a. 1950. Additional bird records for Panama. Auk, 67; 265-267. Murphy, R. C. 1945. Notes on Pearl Islands ornithology. Auk, 62: 114-117. *Peters, J. L. 1931. Additional notes on the birds of the Almirante Bay region of Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 71(5): 310. Lists all forms then known from Bocas del Toro province, with references to earlier literature. *Rendahl, H. 1920. A list of birds of the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama. Arkiv for Zool., 13, no. 4: 1-56. Lists all forms then known from Pearl Islands, a total of 100. ScHOLES, R. T. AND K. T. ScHOLES. 1953. Notes from Panama and the Canal Zone. Condor, 56: 166-167. *Stone, VV. 1918. Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with special reference to a collection made by Mr. Lindsay L. Jewel. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 70; 239-280. Lists all species then recorded, contains Canal Zone bibliography, some breeding data. *Sturgis, B. B. 1928. Field Book of Birds of the Panama Canal Zone. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. A very useful pocket guide to identification, though the nomenclature is somewhat outmoded and not all Canal Zone species are described. *Wetmore, a. 1946. The birds of San Jose and Pedro Gonzales Islands, Republic of Panama. Smith. Misc. Coll. 106, no. 1: 1-60. A list of the birds known from these Pearl Islands; several of the pelagics are new to the Panama list. Wetmore, a. 1951. Four additional species for Panama. Auk, 68: 525-526. Wetmore, a. 1951. Additional forms of birds from Colombia and Panama. Smith. Misc. Coll., 117, no. 2: 1-11. *Wetmore, a. 1952. The birds of the Islands of Taboga, Taboguilla, and Urava, Panama. Smith. Misc. Coll., 121, no. 2: 1-32. A list of all forms reported from these small islands. Wetmore, A. 1953. Further additions to the birds of Panama and Colombia. Smith. Misc. Coll., 122, no. 8: 1-12. , NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES Colombia DE ScHAUENSEE, R. M. 1948-1952. The birds of the Republic of Colombia. Caldasia, 5, nos. 22-26: 251-1212. A check-list of all forms, giving range, Colombian localities, and keys to the identification of specimens. Useful for eastern Panama. [119] United States of America American Ornithologists’ Union Committee. 1931. Check-list of North American birds. 4th ed. (See supra under “General”). Peterson, R. T. 1941. A Field Guide to Western Birds. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Very useful in Mexico and, as regards North American migrants, elsewhere in Middle America. Peterson, R. T. 1947. A Field Guide to the Birds. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Second Rev. ed. The indispensable guide to field identification of North American species east of the Rockies. Useful in Middle America for eastern migrants. PouGH, R. H. 1946-1951. Audubon Bird Guide. Eastern Land Birds. Water Birds. Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City. A set of two books describing the appearance, habits and range of all species found in eastern and central North America, including southern Texas. Each species illustrated in color by Don Eckelberry. Venezuela Phelps, W. H. and W. H. Phelps, Jr. 1950. Lista de las Aves de Venezuela. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Nat., 12, no. 75; 1-427. Pt. 2 Passeriformes. A careful check-list of all forms of the order, giving range, Venezuelan localities, and an indication of habitat. West Indies Bond, J. 1947. A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies. Macmillan Co., New York. An excellent guide, with most resident species depicted in line drawings. Bond, J. 1950. Check-list of birds of the West Indies. Third ed. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Gives West Indian locality data for each form, migration dates, and general range information. A First and Second Supplement published in 1951 and 1952. [1201 INDEX TO GENERA AND GROUP NAMES Where a group name appears on successive pages only the first page is here listed. A page reference in italic type indicates the name appears in a footnote. Abeillia, 47 Acanthidops, 104 Accipiter, 21 Accipitridae, 20 Acestrura, 51 Acrochordopus, 72 Actitis, 30 Aechmolophus, 69 Aechmophorus, 10 Aegolius, 43 Aeronautes, 45 Agamia, 15 Agelaius, 96 Agriocharis, 26 Aimophila, 106 Aix, 19 Ajaia, 16 Alaudidae, 73 Albatross, 10 Alcedinidae, 53 Alcidae, 35 Amaurolimnas, 27 Amaurospiza, 103 Amaurospizopsis, 103 Amazilia, 48 Amazona, 39 Amblycercus, 94 Ammodramus, 106 Amphispiza, 107 Anabacerthia, 60 Anas, 18 Anatidae, 17 Androdon, 45 Anhinga, 14 Anhingidae, 14 Ani, 40 Anous, 35 Anser, 17 Antbird, 61 Anthracothorax, 46 Anthus, 84 Antpitta, 63 Antshrike, 61 Ant-Tanager, 100 Antthrush, 62 Antvireo, 61 Ant wren, 61 Aphanotriccus, 69 Aphelocoma, 75 Aphriza, 30 Apodidae, 44 Aquila, 23 Ara, 38 Aragari, 55 Aramidae, 26 Aramides, 27 Aramus, 26 Aratinga, 38 Archilochus, 51 Ardea, 14 Ardeidae, 14 Ardeola, 15 Arenaria, 30 Arremon, 105 Arremonops, 105 Asio, 42 Aspatha, 53 Asyndesmus, 56 Atalotriccus, 71 Ateleodacnis, 88 Atlapetes, 104 Atthis, 51 Atticora, 73 Attila, 64 Auklet, 35 Aulacorhynchus, 55 Auriparus, 76 Automolus, 60 Avocet, 31 Aythya, 19 Azurecrown, 48 Baldpate, 19 Bananaquit, 88 Bananivorus, 95 Bangsia, 99 Barbet, 54 Barbtail, 59 Barbthroat, 45 Bartramia, 29 Baryphthengus, 53 Basileuterus, 93 Becard, 65 Bellbird, 65 Belonopterus, 28 Bentbill, 70 Bittern, 15 Blackbird, 95, 96 Bluebird, 83 Bobolink, 97 Bobwhite, 25 Bolborhynchus, 39 Bombycilla, 84 Bombycillidae, 84 Booby, 13 Botaurus, 16 Brachygalba, 53 Brachyramphus, 35 Brachyspiza, 108 Brant, 17 Branta, 17 Brilliant, 50 Brotogeris, 39 Brush-Finch, 104 Buarremon, 104 Bubo, 41 Bubulcus, 15 [121] Bucconidae, 53 Bucephala, 19 Bufflehead, 19 Bunting, 102 Burhinidae, 32 Burhinus, 32 Busarellus, 22 Bush-Tanager, 101 Bushtit, 76 Buteo, 21 Buteogallus, 22 Butorides, 15 Cacicus, 94 Cacique, 94 Cairina, 18 Calamospiza, 106 Calcarius, 108 Calidris, 30 Callipepla, 25 Calliste, 98 Calocitta, 74 Calospiza, 98 Calothorax, 51 Calypte, 51 Campephilus, 57 Camptostoma, 72 Campylopterus, 46 Campylorhamphus, 59 Campylorhynchus, 77 Canvasback, 19 Capella, 30 Capito, 54 Capitonidae, 54 Capriniulgidae, 43 Caprimulgus, 43 Capsiempis, 71 Caracara, 23, 23 Cardellina, 92 Cardinal, 101 Carpodacus, 102 Carpodectes, 64 Caryothraustes, 101 Casmerodius, 15 Cassiculus, 94 Cassidix, 95 Catbird, 80 Catharacta, 32 Cathartes, 20 Cathartidae, 20 Catharus, 82 Catherpes, 79 Catoptrophorus, 30 Celeus, 56 Centurus, 56 Cephalopterus, 65 Cercomacra, 62 Cerorhinca, 35 Certhia, 76 Certhiidae, 76 Ceryle, 53 Chachalaca, 24 Chaetura, 44 Chaeturella, 45 Chalybura, 49 Chamaea, 76 Chamaeidae, 76 Chamaepetes, 24 Chamaethlypis, 92 Charadriidae, 28 Charadrius, 29 Chat, 92 Chen, 17 Chickadee, 75 Chiroxiphia, 63 Chlidonias, 33 . Chloroceryle, 53 Chlorophanes, 87 Chlorophonia, 97 Chloropipo, 63 Chlorospingus, 101 Chlorostilbon, 47 Chlothraupis, 100 Chlorura, 105 Chondestes, 106 Chondrohierax, 20 Chordeiles, 43 Chrysoptilus, 55 Chrysothlypis, 100 Chuck-will’s-widow, 43 Ciccaba, 42 Ciconiidae, 16 Cinclidae, 76 Cinclus, 76 Circus, 23 Cissilopha, 75 Cistothorus, 77 Claravis, 37 Cnipodectes, 70 Coccyzus, 40 Cochleariidae, 16 Cochlearius, 16 Coereba, 88 Coerebidae, 87 Colaptes, 55 Colibri, 46 Colinus, 25 Colonia, 66 Columba, 36 Columbidae, 36 Columbigallina, 37 Colymbidae, 9 Colymbus, 9 Comb-Duck, 18 Compsothlypis, 89 Condor, 20 Conebill, 88 Conirostrum, 88 Contopus, 68 Coot, 27 Coquette, 47 Coragyps, 20 Corapipo, 64 Cormorant, 14 Corvidae, 74 Corvus, 74 Coryphotriccus, 67 Cotinga, 64 Cotingidae, 64 Coturnicops, 27 Cowbird, 94 Cracidae, 24 Crake, 27 Crane, 26 Crane-Hawk, 23 Cranioleuca, 59 Craspedoprion, 70 Crax, 24 Creagrus, 33 Creeper, 76 Crocethia, 30 Crossbill, 104 Crotophaga, 40 Crow, 74 Crypturellus, 9 Cuckoo, 40 Cuculidae, 40 Curassow, 24 Curlew, 29 Cyanerpes, 87 [122] Cyanocitta, 75 Cyanocompsa, 102 Cyanocorax, 74 Cyanolyca, 75 Cyclarhidae, 85 Cyclarhis, 85 Cygnus, 17 Cymbilaimus, 61 Cynanthus, 47 Cyphorhinus, 79 Cypseloides, 45 Cyrtonyx, 26 Dacnis, 87 Dactylortyx, 26 Damophila, 47 Daptrius, 23 Deconychura, 58 Deltarhynchus, 68 Dendrocincia, 58 Dendrocolaptes, 58 Dendrocolaptidae, 58 Dendrocopos, 57 Dendrocygna, 17 Dendroica, 89 Dendroplex, 58 Dendrortyx, 25 Dichromanassa, 15 Dickcissel, 102 Diglossa, 87 Diomedea, 10 Diomedeidae, 10 Dipper, 76 Dives, 95 Dolichonyx, 97 Donacobius, 81 Doricha, 50 Doryfera, 45 Dove, 36 Dowitcher, 30 Dromococcyx, 40 Dryocopus, 55 Duck, 17 Dumetella, 80 Dunlin, 31 Dysithamnus, 61 Eagle, 22 Eagle-Hawk, 22 Ectopistes, 36 Egret, 15 Egretta, 15 Elaenia, 71 Elainopsis, 71 Elanoides, 20 Elanus, 20 Electron, 53 Elvira, 49 Emberizoides, 108 Emerald, 47, 48, 49 Empidonax, 68 Endomychura, 35 Erator, 65 Eremophila, 73 Ereunetes, 30 Ergaticus, 93 Erolia, 31 Eubucco, 53 Eucometis, 100 Eudocimus, 16 Eugenes, 50 Eumomota, 53 Euphagus, 95 Eupherusa, 49 Euphonia, 97 Eupoda, 29 Euptilotis, 52 Eurypyga, 28 Eurypygidae, 28 Euthlypis, 93 Eutoxeres, 46 Falco, 24 Falcon, 23 Falconidae, 23 Finch, 101, 102-5 Finfoot, 28 Flamingo, 17 Flatbill, 70 Flicker, 55 Florida, 15 Florisuga, 46 Flower-piercer, 87 Fluvicola, 66 Flycatcher, 65 Foliage-gleaner, 60 Forest-Falcon, 23 Formicariidae, 61 Formicarius, 62 Formicivora, 62 Forpus, 39 Fregata, 14 Fregatidae, 14 Frigatebird, 14 Fringillidae, 101 Fruitcrow, 65 Fulica, 27 Fulmar, 10 Fulmarus, 10 Furnariidae, 59 Gad wall, 18 Galbula, 53 Galbulidae, 53 Gallinago, 30 Gallinula, 27 Galinule, 27 Gmpsonyx, 20 Gannet, 13 Gavia, 9 Gaviidae, 9 Gelochelidon, 34 Geococcyx, 40 Geothlypis, 91 Geotrygon, 37 Geranospiza, 23 Glaucidium, 42 Glaucis, 45 Glyphorhynchus, 58 Gnatcatcher, 83 Gnatwren, 84 Godwit, 29 Goethalsia, 48 Goldeneye, 19 Goldentail, 48 Goldfinch, 104 Goldmania, 48 Goosander, 19 Goose, 17 Goshawk, 21 Grackle, 94 Grallaria, 63 Grallaricula, 63 Granatellus, 92 Grass-Finch, 104 Grassquit, 102, 103 Grebe, 9 Greenlet, 87 Grosbeak, 101 Ground-Cuckoo, 40 1123] Ground-Dove, 37 Ground-Finch, 108 Ground-Sparrow, 105 Gruidae, 26 Grus, 26 Guan, 24 Guiraca, 102 Gull, 32 Gygis, 35 Gymnocichla, 62 Gymnogyps, 20 Gymnopithys, 62 Gymnorhinus, 74 Gymnostinops, 94 Habia, 100 Haematopodidae, 28 Haematopus, 28 Haliaeetus, 23 Halocyptena, 12 Haplophaedia, 50 Harpagus, 20 Harpia, 22 Harpyhaliaetus, 22 Harrier, 23 Hawk, 20, 21 Hawk-Eagle, 22 Heleodytes, 77 Heliodoxa, 50 Heliomaster, 50 Heliornis, 28 Heliornithidae, 28 Heliothrix, 50 Helmitheros, 88 Hemithraupis, 100 Henicorhina, 79 Hermit, 45 Heron, 14 Herpetotheres, 23 Herpsilochmus, 62 Hesperiphona, 102 Heterocnus, 15 Heteroscelus, 30 Heterospingus, 100 Heterospizias, 21 Himantopus, 31 Hirundinidae, 73 Hirundo, 73 Honeycreeper, 87 Hoploxypterus, 28 House-Wren, 79 Hummingbird, 45 Hydranassa, 15 Hydrobatidae, 11 Hydroprogne, 34 Hylocharis, 47 Hylocichla, 82 Hyloctistes, 60 Hylomanes, 53 Hylophilax, 62 Hylophylus, 87 Hylorchilus, 79 Hypomorphnus, 22 Ibis, 16 Ibycter, 23 Icteria, 92 Icteridae, 94 Icterus, 95 Ictinia, 20 Iridoprocne, 74 Ixobrychus, 15 Ixoreus, 81 Jabiru, 16 Jacamar, 53 Jacamerops, 53 Jacana, 28 Jacanidae, 28 Jacobin, 46 Jaeger, 32 Jay, 74 Juliamyia, 47 Junco, 107 Kestrel, 24 Killdeer, 29 Kingbird, 66 Kingfisher, 53 Kinglet, 83 Kiskadee, 67 Kite, 20 Kittiwake, 33 Klais, 46 Knot, 30 Lampornis, 49 Lamprolaima, 50 Lancebill, 45 Laniidae, 85 Lanio, 100 Laniocera, 64 Lanius, 85 Lapwing, 28 Laridae, 32 Lark, 73 Larus, 32 Laterallus, 27 Lathria, 65 Leafscraper, 60 Legatus, 66 Leistes, 96 Lepidocolaptes, 59 Lepidopyga, 47 Leptodon, 20 Leptopogon, 72 Leptotila, 37 Leucolepis, 79 Leucophoyx, 15 Leucopternis, 22 Limnodromus, 30 Limnothlypis, 88 Limosa, 29 Limpkin, 26 Lipaugus, 65 Lobipes, 32 Lochmias, 61 Longspur, 108 Loon, 9 Lophodytes, 19 Lophornis, 47 Lophortyx, 25 Lophostryx, 41 Lophotriccus, 71 Loxia, 104 Lurocalis, 43 Lysurus, 105 Macaw, 38 Magpie-Jay, 74 Malacoptila, 54 Mallard, 18 Manacus, 64 Manakin, 63 Mango, 46 Mareca, 18 Margarornis, 59 Martin, 73 [124] Meadowlark, 96 Muscovy, 18 Oporornis, 91 Mecocerculus, 71 Myadestes, 81 Oreophasis, 24 Megaceryle, 53 Mycteria, 16 Oreopyra, 50 Megarynchus, 67 Myiarchus, 67 Oreortyx, 25 Melanerpes, 56 Myiobius, 69 Oreoscoptes, 81 Melanitta, 19 Myioborus, 93 Oriole, 95 Melanoptila, 80 Myiochanes, 68 Oriturus, 106 Melanotis, 80 Myiodynastes, 66 Ornithion, 72 Meleagridae, 26 Myiopagis, 71 Oropendola, 94 Meleagris, 26 Myiophobus, 70 Ortalis, 24 Merlin, 24 Myiornis, 71 Oryzoborus, 103 Melospiza, 108 Myiozetetes, 67 Osprey, 23 Melozone, 105 Myrmeciza, 62 Ostinops, 94 Merganser, 19 Myrmornis, 63 Otophanes, 43 Mergus, 19 Myrmotherula, 61 Otus, 41 Mesembrinibis, 16 Ovenbird, 59, 91 Micrathene, 42 Neochelidon, 73 Owl, 41 Micrastur, 23 Neochloe, 86 Oxyruncidae, 72 Microbates, 84 Neomorphus, 41 Oxyruncus, 72 Microcerculus, 79 Nesotriccus, 68 Oxyura, 19 Microchera, 49 Nighthawk, 43 Oystercatcher, 28 Micromonacha, 54 Night-Heron, 15 Micropalama, 31 Nightingale-Thrush, 82 Pachyramphus, 64 Microrhopias, 62 Nightjar, 43 Pachysylvia, 87 Microtriccus, 7Z Noddy, 35 Pandion, 23 Milvago, 23 Nonnula, 54 Pandionidae, 23 Mimidae, 80 Notharchus, 54 Panyptila, 45 Mimodes, 80 Nothocercus, 9 Panterpe, 47 Mimus, 80 Notiochelidon, 73 Paphosia, 47 Mionectes, 72 Nucifraga, 74 Parabuteo, 22 Mitrephanes, 69 Numenius, 29 Parakeet, 38 Mitrospingus, 100 Nunbird, 54 Pardirallus, 27 Mniotilta, 88 Nunlet, 54 Paridae, 75 Mockingbird, 80 Nutcracker, 74 Parrot, 38 Mockingthrush, 81 Nuthatch, 76 Parrotlet, 39 Molothrus, 94 Nuttallornis, 68 Partridge, 25 Momotidae, 53 Nyctanassa, 15 Parula, 89 Momotus, 53 Nyctybiidae, 43 Parulidae, 88 Monasa, 54 Nyctibius, 43 Parus, 75 Monklet, 54 Nycticorax, 15 Passer, 94 Morococcyx, 40 Nyctidromus, 43 Passeridae, 94 Morphnus, 22 Nyctiphrynus, 43 Passerculus, 106 Morns, 13 Nystalus, 54 Passerella, 108 Motacilla, 84 Passerina, 102 Motacillidae, 84 Oceanites, 11 Pauraque, 43 Motmot, 53 Oceanodroma, 12 Pelagodroma, 12 Mountain-gem, 49 Odontophorus, 25 Pelecanidae, 13 Mourner, 64 Odontriorchis, 20 Pelecanus, 13 Murrelet, 35 Oncostoma, 70 Pelican, 13 Muscivora, 64 Onychorhynchus, 70 Penelope, 24 [125] Penelopina, 24 Peppershrike, 85 Perissotriccus, 71 Petrel, 10, 11 Petrochelidon, 73 Peucedramus, 89 Pewee, 68 Pezopetes, 104 Phaeochroa, 46 Phaeomyias, 72 Phaenostictus, 62 Phaeoprogne, 73 Phaethon, 12 Phaethontidae, 12 Phaethornis, 45 Phainopepla, 84 Phainoptila, 85 Phalacrocoracidae, 14 Phalacrocorax, 14 Phalaenoptilus, 43 Phalarope, 31 Phalaropodidae, 31 Phalaropus, 31 Pharomachrus, 52 Phasianidae, 25 Pheucticus, 101 Philodice, 50 Philortyx, 25 Philydor, 60 Phloeoceastes, 57 Phlogothraupis, 99 Phoebe, 65 Phoenicopteridae, 17 Phoenicopterus, 17 Phyllomyias, 72 Phylloscartes, 71 Piaya, 40 Picidae, 55 Piculet, 55 Piculus, 55 Picumnus, 55 Pigeon, 36 Piha, 65 Pilherodius, 15 Pinaroloxias, 102 Pintail, 18 Pionopsitta, 39 Pionus, 39 Pipilo, 105 Pipit, 84 Pipra, 63 Pipridae, 63 Piprites, 63 Pipromorpha, 72 Piranga, 99 Pitangus, 67 Pittasoma, 63 Pitylus, 101 Plagiospiza, 106 Platypsaris, 65 Platyrinchus, 70 Plegadis, 16 Ploceidae, 94 Plover, 28 Plumeleteer, 49 Pluvialis, 28 Podiceps, 9 Podicipididae, 9 Podilymbus, 10 Polioptila, 83 Polioptilidae, 83 Polyborus, 23 Pooecetes, 106 Poorwill, 43 Popelairia, 47 Porphyrula, 27 Porzana, 27 Potoo, 43 Praedo, 69 Premnoplex, 59 Priocella, 10 Procellariidae, 10 Procnias, 65 Progne, 73 Protonotaria, 88 Psaltiparus, 76 Psarocolius, 94 Pselliophorus, 104 Pseudocolaptes, 60 Pesudotriccus, 71 Psilorhinus, 74 Psittacidae, 38 Psomocolax, 94 Pterodroma, 11 Pteroglossus, 55 Ptilogonatidae, 84 Ptilogonys, 84 Ptychoramphus, 35 Puffbird, 54 Puffinus, 10 Puffleg, 50 Pulsatrix, 42 Pygmy-Owl, 42 Pygmy-Tyrant, 71 Pygochelidon, 73 Pyrocephalus, 66 Pyrrhuloxia, 101 Pyrrhura, 39 Quail, 25 Quail-Dove, 37 Querula, 65 Quetzal, 52 Quiscalus, 94 Rail, 26 Rallidae, 26 Rallus, 26 Ramphastidae, 55 Ramphastos, 55 Ramphocaenus, 84 Ramphocelus, 99 Raven, 74 Recurvirostra, 31 Recurvirostridae, 31 Redhead, 19 Redstart, 92 Regulidae, 84 Regulus, 84 Rhinocryptidae, 63 Rhinoptynx, 42 Rhodinocichla, 100 Rhodothraupis, 101 Rhynchocyclus, 70 Rhynchophanes, 108 Rhynchopsitta, 38 Rhopoterpe, 63 Rhynchortyx, 26 Rhytipterna, 65 Richmondena, 101 Ridgwayia, 83 Riparia, 73 Rissa, 33 Roadrunner, 40 Robin, 81 Rostrhamus, 20 Royal-Flycatcher, 70 Rynchopidae, 35 Rynchops, 35 [126] Sabrewing, 46 Salpinctes, 79 Saltator, 101 Sanderling, 30 Sandpiper, 29 Sapayoa, 64 Sapsucker, 57 Sarcoramphus, 20 Sarkidiornis, 18 Sayornis, 65 Scaphidura, 94 Scardafella, 37 Scaup, 19 SchifTornis, 64 Sclerurus, 60 Scolopacidae, 29 Scops-Owl, 41 Scoter, 19 Scotothorus, 64 Screech-Owl, 41 Scytalopus, 63 Scythebill, 59 Seedeater, 103 Seed-Finch, 103 Seiurus, 91 Selasphorus, 51 Selenidera, 55 Semnornis, 54 Serpophaga, 71 Setophaga, 92 Sharpbill, 72 Sheartail, 50 Shearwater, 10 Shoveler, 18 Shrike, 85 Shrike-Tanager, 100 Shrike-Vireo, 85 Sialia, 83 Sicalis, 104 Sicklebill, 46, 59 Silky-flycatcher, 84 Sirystes, 66 Siskin, 103 Sitta, 76 Sittasomus, 58 Sittidae, 76 Skimmer, 35 Skua, 32 Smaragdolanius, 85 Snipe, 30 Snowcap, 49 Softtail, 59 Solitaire, 81 Sora, 27 Spadebill, 70 Sparrow, 94, 105, 106 Spatula, 18 Speotyto, 42 Sphyrapicus, 57 Spindalis, 99 Spinetail, 59 Spinus, 103 Spiza, 102 Spizaetus, 23 Spizastur, 22 Spizella, 107 Spodiornis, 104 Spoonbill, 16 Sporophila, 103 Squatarola, 28 Starling, 85 Starthroat, 50 Steganopus, 31 Stelgidopteryx, 73 Stellula, 51 Stercorariidae, 32 Stercorarius, 32 Sterna, 34 Stilt, 31 Stork, 16 Storm-Petrels, 11 Streamcreeper, 61 Streptoprocne, 44 Strigidae, 41 Strix, 42 Sturnella, 96 Sturnidae, 85 Sturnus, 85 Sublegatus, 72 Sula, 13 Sulidae, 13 Sunbittern, 28 Sungrebe, 28 Surfbird, 30 Swallow, 73 Swallow-Tanager, 97 Swan, 17 Swift, 44 Sylviidae, 83 Synallaxis, 59 Syndactila, 60 Synthliboramphus, 35 Tachycineta, 74 Tachyphonus, 100 Tanager, 97 Tanagra, 97 Tangara, 98 Tangavius, 94 Tapaculo, 63 Tapera, 40 Taraba, 61 Tattler, 30 Teal, 18 Telmatodytes, 77 Terenotriccus, 69 Terenura, 62 Tern, 33 Tersina, 97 Thalasseus, 34 Thalurania, 47 Thamnistes, 61 Thamnophilus, 61 Theristicus, 16 Thick-knee, 32 Thorntail, 47 Thrasher, 80 Thraupidae, 97 Thraupis, 99 Threnetes, 45 Threskiornithidae, 16 Thripadectes, 60 Thrush, 81 Thrush-Tanager, 100 Thryomanes, 78 Thryorchilus, 79 Thryothorus, 77 Tiaris, 102 Tiger-Heron, 15 Tigrisoma, 15 Tilmatura, 51 Timaliidae, 76 Tinamidae, 9 Tinamou, 9 Tinamus, 9 Titmouse, 76 Tityra, 65 Todirostrum, 70 Tody-Flycatcher, 70 Tolmomyias, 70 [127] Totanus, 30 Toucan, 55 Toucanet, 55 Touit, 39 Towhee, 105 Toxostoma, 80 Tree-Duck, 17 Treehunter, 60 Treerunner, 59 Tringa, 30 Tripsurus, 57 Trochilidae, 45 Troglodytes, 79 Troglodytidae, 77 Trogon, 52 Trogonidae, 52 Tropicbird, 12 Tryngites, 31 Tuftedcheek, 60 Turdidae, 81 Turdus, 81 Turkey, 26 Turnstone, 30 Tyrannidae, 65 Tyranniscus, 72 Tyrannulet, 71 Tyrannulus, 72 Tyrannus, 66 Tyrant, 66 Tyto, 41 Tytonidae, 41 Umbrellabird, 65 Uropsila, 79 Urubitinga, Z2 Urubitornis, Z2 Veery, 82 Veniliornis, 57 Verdin, 76 Vermivora, 88 Violet-ear, 46 Vireo, 85 Vireolaniidae, 85 Vireolanius, 85 Vireonidae, 85 Volatinia, 103 Vulture, 20 Wagtail, 84 Warbler, 83, 88 Waterthrush, 91 Water-Tyrant, 66 Waxwing, 84 Wedge-bill, 58 Whimbrel, 29 Whip-poor-will, 43 Widgeon, 18 Willet, 30 Wilsonia, 92 Woodcreeper, 57, Woodhaunter, 60 Woodhewer, 57 Woodnymph, 47 Wood-Partridge, 25 Woodpecker, 55 Wood-Pewee, 68 Wood-Quail, 25 Wood-Rail, 27 Woodstar, 50, 51 Wood-Warbler, 88 Wood- Wren, 79 Wren, 77 Wren-Thrush, 83 Xanthocephalus, 96 Xanthornus, 94 Xanthoura, 75 Xema, 33 Xenerpestes, 59 Xenicopsis, 60 Xenicopsoides, 60 Xenoctistes, 60 Xenops, 60 Xenornis, 61 Xenospiza, 106 Xenotriccus, 69 Xiphocolaptes, 58 Xiphorhynchus, 58 Yellowlegs, 30 Yellowthroat, 91 Zarhynchus, 94 Zeledonia, 83 Zeledoniidae, 83 Zenaida, 36 Zenaidura, 36 Zonotrichia, 108 ( 128] >!• I / / • I . \ ■f [ i' r /! ( t PAMPHIET BINDER Syracuse, N. Y. ■■■ Stockton, Collf. \ r A ->n ^ "] 12078