DENDROCOLAPTES. 191 
We know very little of this species in Guatemala, and the two specimens, one from 
Tactic and one from San Gerdnimo, which served as the types are the only ones we 
have seen from that country. They were both shot at an elevation of about 4500 feet 
above the sea, the San Gerdnimo bird in the pine-woods covering the hills skirting the 
plain of Salama, and the Tactic bird in the hilly country of Alta Vera Paz, also 
covered at intervals with pine-forest. 
2. Dendrocolaptes validus. 
Dendrocolaptes validus, Tsch. Fauna Per. p. 242, t. 21. f. 2°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1866, p. 184’; 
1879, p. 523°; Sel. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 172°. 
Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus, Kyton, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 75°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 
pp- 106, 146°; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 305’. 
Dendrocolaptes puncticollis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 146 (nec Scl. & Salv.) 
P. Z. S. 1878, p. 60°; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 545 °°. 
D. puneticolli similis, sed abdomine toto usque ad pectus transversim nigro distincte striato; striis pectoralibus 
utrinque nigro irregulariter marginatis distinguendus. Long. tota 11-0, ale 5-0, caude 4:5, rostri a rictu 
1-4, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. feminz ex Naranjo, Costa Rica. Mus. Boucard.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Navarro (J. Cooper®"1°), Naranjo (Boucard®); PANAMA (mus. 
nostr. +). —CoLomBIA 2; Ecuapor; E. Peru!; Venezveia? and Upper AMAZONS ”. 
*; Boucard, 
Through M. Boucard’s kindness we have been able to examine one of the specimens 
of this Dendrocolaptes obtained by him at Naranjo in Costa Rica during his expedition 
to that country in 1877. We find that it agrees fairly with a specimen in our collection, 
said to be from Panama, which Mr. Sclater in his Catalogue decided to belong to the 
South-American JD. validus of Tschudi; the latter, however, is rather more rufescent 
in the general tint of its plumage. The Costa Rica bird has been called D. multi- 
strigatus, Eyton® (now proved to be a synonym of JD. validus), and subsequently 
referred to the Guatemalan D. puncticollis®, but we cannot find that specimens from the 
two countries have been compared. 
Compared with the last-named bird, D. validus presents several points of difference, 
to which attention is drawn above. JD. validus, however, varies considerably both in 
the clearness of its markings and the intensity of its colour, but we doubt the possibility 
of our being able to distinguish any definite races of the species as a whole. The 
Central-American birds agree very closely with a Venezuelan specimen in our collection 
and are hardly so strongly marked as examples from other places, 
Salmon, who found a nest of this species, describes it as placed in a hole in a tree, 
and the eggs as white and two in number °. The birds shot by M. Boucard were busy 
with their nest in a hole in a tree ®, 
