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154 HYLOPEZUS DIVES (Salvin).

Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dull slate color, indistinctly streaked or squamated with slate-blackish; rest of upper parts dull slate color anteriorly passing into olive posteriorly, the feathers (especially the scapulars) with very narrow and mostly indistinct shaft-streaks of pale buffy; upper tail-coverts and tail russet-brown or vandyke brown; general color of wings deep olive-brown, the outer webs of primaries paler and more rufescent brown; outermost feather of alula edged with buff or ochraceous-buff; loral, orbital, and suborbital regions buff, more or less flecked with dusky, the lower-anterior portion of auricular region deeper buffy; upper-posterior portion of auricular region dull slate color, more or less tinged with olive; malar region, chin, and throat white or buffy white, the first more or less flecked with dusky; chest and sides of breast ochraceous, the feathers with median or central portion paler and edged with black, producing a streaked effect; sides, flanks, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts plain ochraceous to rufous-tawny; inner webs of remiges passing into dull vinaceous-cinnamon on edges; maxilla brownish, paler along tomia, darker (sometimes nearly black) on culmen; mandible pale dull yellowish (in dried skins), usually tinged with brownish laterally or terminally; legs and feet pale yellowish or yellowish brown (in dried skins).

Adult male. — Length (skins), 118-129 (124); wing, 73.5-78 (75.8); tail, 29-31 (30); culmen, 19-19.5 (19.3); tarsus, 37; middle toe, 18-20.5 (19.2).

Adult female. — Length (skin), 119; wing, 75; tail, 30; culmen, 18; tarsus, 36; middle toe, 19.

Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Tucurríqui; Jiménez; Guácimo; La Vijágua) and Nicaragua (Chontales; Greytown; Rio Escondido; Los Sábalos).


 * Grallaria dives, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. April 1, 1865), 582 (Tucurríqui, e. Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibis, 1872, 313 (Chontales, Nicaragua). — , Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1865, 182 (Greytown, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 110 (Tucurríqui, Costa Rica). — , Journ. für Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica). — , Ibis, 1877, 450 (Tucurríqui, Costa Rica; Chontales, Nicaragua; monogr.; crit.); Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 323 (do.). — , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406 (Los Sábalos, Nicaragua). — , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406, footnote (crit.; Greytown and Los Sábalos). — , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 534 (Costa Rica; descr. young). — and , Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 243, pl. 53, fig. 1. — , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 504 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua).
 * [Grallaria] dives and, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 76. — , Hand-list, iii, 1901, 43.