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grayish brown; supra-auricular region streaked or spotted with 

 black and pale buff or buffy whitish; under parts buff, paler on 

 throat and abdomen, more grayish or olivaceous on sides and flanks, 

 the chest and throat (especiall}^ the former) narrowh' streaked with 

 black; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 103-107 (105); 

 wing, 56.5-59 (57.7); tail, 36.5-40 (38.2); culmen, 15-17 (16); 

 tarsus, 20-20.5 (20.2); middle toe, 12.5-13 (12.7).« 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Pacuare; Rio Sicsola) and western Panama 

 (Santiago de Ver4gua) . 



Dysithamnus puncticeps Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 72 (Santiago de 

 Veragua, Panama; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 144 (Santiago de Verd- 

 gua). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 115 (Pacuare, Costa 

 Rica).— ScLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 223 (VerAgua).— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 207, pi. 50, figs. 2, 3.— Car- 

 RiKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 599 (in key; considered extralimital 

 to Costa Rica?). 

 [Dysithamnus] puncticeps Sclater and Salvin, Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 71. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 19. 



DYSITHAMNUS STRIATICEPS Lawrence. 



STREAKED-CROWNED ANTVIREO. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck slate-gray, broadly streaked 

 with black, the streaks becoming obsolete on hindneck; back, scapu- 

 lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain olive or grayish olive, the 

 upper back sometimes inclining to slate-gray; tail russet-olive or 

 olive-brown; lesser wing-coverts black, spotted with white, those 

 along edge of wing mostly or wholly wdiite; middle coverts black, 

 tipped with a roundish spot of white or brownish white; greater 

 coverts olive (darker on concealed portions), their outer webs tipped 

 with brownish white (forming a narrow band across closed wing); 

 remiges olive, with underlying portion dusky, paler on edge of 

 primaries; alula black, the outermost feathers broadly edged with 

 white; auricular region and sides of neck slate-gray, the former very 

 indistinctly flecked with dusky; suborbital and malar regions paler 

 gray, barred or flecked with dusky; chin, tlu"oat, and chest white, 

 broadly streaked with slate-gray and with narrow blackish shaft- 

 streaks; sides and flanks olive, more or less strongly suffused with 

 buff; breast and abdomen white, or buft'y white, passing into buff 

 (more or less deep) on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts mostly 

 dull white; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with white; maxilla 

 brownish black, mandible dull whitish (pale bluish gray, bluish 

 horn color, or straw yellow in life) ; ^ iris brown, gray, grayish white, 

 or bluish white; & legs and feet dusky or horn color (bluish gray or 

 grayish blue in life);^ length (skins), 94-112 (102); wing, 56.5-61 

 (59.2); tail, 31.5-35 (32.7); culmen, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 19-20.5 

 (19.8); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.8). <= 



«Two specimens. & M. A. Carriker, jr., on labels. c Ten specimens. 



