. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Birds. 6lO BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 wing (), tail (), oilmen from base (), tarsus () mm. Females (10 from Volcan de Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing (), tail (), culmen from base (), tarsus () Figure 47.—Volcano Junco, Junco del Volcan, J unco vulcani. Resident. Found only on Volcan de Chiriqui, Chiriqui, and on the high peaks of Costa Rica. On Volcan de Chiriqui, it is common at and above timberline; I collected some at 2685
. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Birds. 6lO BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 wing (), tail (), oilmen from base (), tarsus () mm. Females (10 from Volcan de Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing (), tail (), culmen from base (), tarsus () Figure 47.—Volcano Junco, Junco del Volcan, J unco vulcani. Resident. Found only on Volcan de Chiriqui, Chiriqui, and on the high peaks of Costa Rica. On Volcan de Chiriqui, it is common at and above timberline; I collected some at 2685 and 2700 m, but it is usually not encountered below 3000 m. The Volcano Junco is generally found singly or in pairs accompanied by young birds. It inhabits openings with tangles of bushes and scrub, and sometimes rises into trees when they are present. It forages on the ground, where it hops and runs. Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, p. 389) describes the song as "a somewhat involved set of about 10 notes followed by a variable, strongly undulant trill or ; It also has various chirp- ing and twittering notes. In the series that W. W. Brown, Jr., (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1992, p. 70) collected on Volcan de Chiriqui in May and June 1901 were young in nestling plumage. F. G. Stiles found a nest with two eggs in Costa Rica that is now in the collection of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. The nest was a cup of grass lined with animal hair and thistle floss. It was set in a niche in a rocky embankment overgrown with moss, the moss overhanging and forming a roof for the nest. The outside was some-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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