. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Birds. FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE 531 Resident. Fairly common in the lowlands on the Caribbean slope from Bocas del Toro east to Mandinga, San Bias, where I collected several in 1957; on the Pacific slope it is local and scattered: Brown took a female at Boquete, Chiriqui (1200 m); in 1901 (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 68); I found several at El Valle, Code, in 1951 between 600 and 750 m; and Ridgely (1976, p. 328) reports it from Cerro Campana and once from the Rio Bayano in the Province of Panama. Ridgely (in litt.) reports a pair seen
. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Birds. FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE 531 Resident. Fairly common in the lowlands on the Caribbean slope from Bocas del Toro east to Mandinga, San Bias, where I collected several in 1957; on the Pacific slope it is local and scattered: Brown took a female at Boquete, Chiriqui (1200 m); in 1901 (Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 68); I found several at El Valle, Code, in 1951 between 600 and 750 m; and Ridgely (1976, p. 328) reports it from Cerro Campana and once from the Rio Bayano in the Province of Panama. Ridgely (in litt.) reports a pair seen Febru- ary 28 to March 5, 1981, at the Cana airstrip in southeastern Darien. The birds were seen by Ridgely, Victor Emanuel, and several others. This is the first record from Darien. In the Canal Zone, Ridgely knows of only 1 sighting away from the Caribbean coast, a single bird he saw at the Madden Lake Scout Camp on July 10, 1975. It is also found in western Costa Rica; other races range north to central Figure 41.—Black-headed Saltator, Saltador Cabecinegro, Saltator atriceps lacertosus. This noisy bird inhabits shrubby thickets in clearings and at the edge of forest; it is not found in the forest interior. It often moves in small groups and its harsh scolding notes are heard almost constantly. I was surprised to find that this species has a high, thin song—tseety, tseety- tseety-tseety-tseety—that sooner suggests an antbird or a warbler than a bird of this size. They usually sing early in the morning from perches in plain view between 3 and 10 m from the ground. Ridgely also men- tions a "cackling and squawking" song. Their diet is varied, including seeds and insects. At Mandinga, San Bias, I watched several feed on the blossoms of a climbing pea, which they pluck and cut up, slowly manipulating them in the bill, apparently with the aid of the tongue, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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