172 DENDROCOLAPTIDZ. 
Vera Cruz, where both D. anabatina and D. homochroa occur; and these two birds 
spread through Central America to the State of Panama, being joined in Costa Rica by 
D. olivacea, and at Panama by D. ruficeps. 
1. Dendrocincla anabatina. 
Dendrocincla anabatina, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 54, t.150'; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1627; Scl. _ 
& Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 54°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 450*; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
vi. p. 404°; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 490, 590°. 
Dendromanes anabatinus, Scl. P. Z. 8.1859, p. 382"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 35°; P. Z. S. 1870, 
p. 837°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 192. | 
Dendrocops anabatinus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 118". 
Supra olivaceo-brunnea, dorso postico pallidiore, tectricibus supracaudalibus et cauda rubiginosis, loris et gula 
cervino-albidis, stria postoculari cervina indistincta: subtus pallidior, pectore striis rhachidalibus cervinis 
indistinctis notato ; alis extus rufo-cervinis, remigum apicibus nigricanti-brunneis, tectricibus omnibus dorso 
concoloribus, tectricibus subalaribus et alis subtus (preter apices) pallide cinnamomeis: rostro corneo, 
pedibus saturate corylinis. Long. tota 7:0, ale 3°7, cauda 2°85, rostri a rictu 1:05, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. 
feminz ex Teapa, Tabasco. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Mirador and Potrero in Vera Cruz (U.S. Nat. Mus.), Playa Vicente 
(Boucard”), Teapa in Tabasco (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Northern Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
British Honpuras, Orange Walk (Gaumer); Guatemata, Rancho Tuilhé on the 
Cahabon-Peten road, Choctum and Coban § (0. 8S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, Omoa 
(Leyland* 1), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®), Segovia River (Townsend 8); Nica- 
RAGUA, Los Sabalos (Nutting); Panama, Chiriqui, Bugaba® (Arcé). 
A specimen obtained at Omoa in Honduras by Leyland formed the type of this 
species, and was described by Mr. Sclater in 18591. The bird has since been traced 
over the whole of the forest-region of the eastern side of the Cordillera, from Playa 
Vicente, in Mexico’, in the north to Chiriqui!° in the south. We have no record of its 
occurrence in Costa Rica, though it is doubtless found there, as it has been observed at 
Chiriqui and specimens sent us from there by our collector Arcé. These latter birds 
are rather dark in colour, but not, in our opinion, separable. 
D. anabatina, like D. homochroa, lives in the dense forest of the lowlands, the two 
birds being often seen on the trunk of the same tree picking ants from the surface of 
the bark. 
2. Dendrocincla homochroa. 
Dendromanes homochrous, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 8821; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 353; P. Z. S. 1870, 
p. 193°. 
Dendrocincla homochroa, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 54°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 450°; 
Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 385 °, 414°; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p.4917; Salyv. 
Ibis, 1889, p. 365°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 163°. 
Dendrocincla homochroa ruficeps, Ridgw. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p- 491 °°. 
Fusco-rubiginosa fere unicolor, pileo, alis et cauda magis cinnamomeis, dorso postico pallidiore, remigibus externis 
