. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Jeremy N. M. Flanagan & Brad Millen 271 Bull. 2008 128(4). First nest and egg records of Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii, by O. D. Boggs hy Jeremy N. M. Flanagan & Brad Millen Received 11 February 2008 Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii is endemic to the dry forests of coastal north- ern Peru in dptos. Piura, Lambayeque, Cajamarca, La Libertad, Ancash and Lima. Through a review of specimen material at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, we are able to provide the first description of its nest and eggs, based on
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Jeremy N. M. Flanagan & Brad Millen 271 Bull. 2008 128(4). First nest and egg records of Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii, by O. D. Boggs hy Jeremy N. M. Flanagan & Brad Millen Received 11 February 2008 Peruvian Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii is endemic to the dry forests of coastal north- ern Peru in dptos. Piura, Lambayeque, Cajamarca, La Libertad, Ancash and Lima. Through a review of specimen material at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, we are able to provide the first description of its nest and eggs, based on the collection of O. D. Boggs, a Canadian geologist who worked in the Talara oilfields of north-west Peru in the 1930s (McNicholl & Cranner-Byng 1994). His work took him to Peru and Ecuador several times in 1926-39 and Colombia in 1945-46, during which he col- lected a total of 637 bird skins and 124 eggs, all deposited at the ROM, with a few at the Natural History Museum, Tring, UK (M. P. Adams pers. comm.). Boggs collected two clutches belonging to Peruvian Figure 1. Eggs of Peruvian Plantcutter, with the following information adapted from his Plantcutter Phytotoma raimondii 111 T iL TVT -ri taken near Peru, north-west Peru, specimen labels: Clutch l-Locality: Near Talara, Peru ^^^^ ^^ ^^ O^^^^.^ (04°33'S 81°13'W; elevation 82 m. Date: 27 March 1934. Eggs: Museum, Toronto (Brad Millen) two, incomplete clutch. Incubation: fresh. Identity: female taken [ROM ]. Nest: m up in a small algarroba tree. Remarks: one fully devel- oped egg similar to others found in oviduct of female. Clutch 2—Locality: Near Talara, Peru (coordinates and elevation as previous). Date: 4 April 1934. Eggs: three, complete clutch. Incubation: advanced. Identity: both birds seen; male collected but not preserved. Nest: a frail, shallow affair of twigs, m up near the centre of a small, dead, algarroba tree. Eggs vis- ible from below. Remarks: male had very little red on the forehe
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