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282 DENDROCOLAPTES SANCTI-THOMÆ HESPERIUS Bangs.

Similar to D. s. sancti-thomæ but pileum duller, much less rufescent (nearly concolor with back), back less distinctly barred (bars often obsolete), and bars on under parts much narrower.

Adult male. — Length (skins), 241-272 (253); wing, 119.5-130.5 (127); tail, 103-120.5 (112); culmen, 37.5-41.5 (39.5); tarsus, 27-30 (28.5); middle toe, 21-22 (21.5).

Adult female. — Length (skins), 243-275 (260); wing, 117.5-135 (126.9); tail, 104-117.5 (112.4); culmen, 36-39 (37.7); tarsus, 27.5-29 (28.4); middle toe, 21-22.5 (21.6).

Southwestern Costa Rica (Boruca, Pozo del Rio Grande, Lagarto, and Paso Reál, Boruca; El Pozo de Térraba; Buenos Aires; Pigres; Aguacate Mountains?) and adjacent portion of western Panamá (Chiriquí; Santiago de Verágua; Bugaba); western Nicaragua (San Gerónimo, Chinandega)?


 * Dendrocolaptes sancti-thomæ (not of Sclater, 1858), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 144 (Santiago de Verágua, Panamá); 1870, 193 (Bugaba, Panamá). — , Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 174, part (Santiago and Bugaba, Panamá). — and , Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 192, part (Aguacate Mts., Costa Rica?; Bugaba and Santiago de Verágua, Panamá). — , Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 41 (Boruca, Costa Rica).
 * Dendrocolaptes sancti-thomæ hesperius, Auk, xxiv, July, 1907, 299 (Lagarto, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). — , Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 660 (Terraba Valley, s. w. Costa Rica; crit.).

DENDROCOLAPTES PUNCTICOLLIS Sclater and Salvin.

"Above fulvous-brown; head rather darker, with pale fulvous linear shaft-stripes, which are sparingly continued over the upper back; outer secondaries and tail ferruginous; beneath paler; throat pale fulvous, with slight blackish variegations; breast with broad shaft- spots of pale fulvous laterally edged with black; belly marked with numerous fine black cross-bands; under wing-coverts ochraceous slightly flecked with black; bill pale horn-colour: whole length 10.5 inches [266.5 mm.], wing 5.1 [129.5 mm.], tail 4.5 [114.5 mm.]."

Above olive-brown, upper tail coverts, outer surface of wings, and tail rufescent ["rubiginosis"], wing-coverts concolor with back, head