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Rh basal phalanx of middle toe united for more than half its length to lateral toes; claws moderate to rather large, strongly curved, that of hallux decidedly shorter than the digit. Coloration. — Above brown, usually darker and duller (sometimes more grayish) on pileum and hindneck, the tail and upper tail-coverts chestnut or chestnut-brown; under parts brown or olive, more or less distinctly streaked with tawny, ochraceous, or buffy — the pileum and hindneck, or even the back, sometimes similarly streaked. Sexes alike.

Nidification. — Unknown?

Range. — Costa Rica to Ecuadór (to Peru, Bolivia, and southeastern Brazil? ). (Several species. )

RHOPOCTITES RUFOBRUNNEUS (Lawrence).

Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dark grayish brown or brownish gray, the feathers margined with blackish; back, scapulars, and wings deep warm-sepia or mummy brown, passing into chestnut on lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail, the shafts of rectrices much darker; lores mixed dusky and grayish; suborbital and auricular regions streaked with dusky and dull ochraceous or light brownish; malar region, sides of neck (anteriorly), chin, and throat ochraceous (more or less deep), the feathers more or less distinctly edged or narrowly margined with dusky olive or blackish; rest of under parts light tawny-olive, more olive on chest, where more or less broadly streaked with ochraceous, usually more ochraceous on abdomen, the under tail-coverts more rufescent; under wing-coverts tawny-ochraceous, the inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pale ochraceous- buff or deep pinkish buff; bill black, the mandible usually brownish basally; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).