BIKDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 255 



Dendrornis triangularis (not Dendrocolaptes triangularis Lafresnaye) Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 289 (C6rdova, Vera Cruz). 



Dendrornis erythropygia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 366 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater), 381 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862; 

 165 (Jalapa); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 131, part (Jalapa; sources 

 Rio de la Pasi6n, Chis^c, and Choctum, Guatemala). — Salvin and Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1860, 35 (Cobdn, Guatemala). — Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 

 1878, 38 (Guatemala). — Elliot, Auk, vii, 1890, 187, part (Jalapa, Mexico, 

 Guatemala; excl. syn. D. e. sequatorialis Berlepsch and Taczanowski). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 181, i^art (Jalapa, 

 Coatepec, Huatusco, Cordova, Cofre de Perote, Vera Cniz; Chilpancingo, 

 Guerrero; Oaxaca; El Rincon, Las Nubes, Cob^n, Chisec, and Choctum, 

 Guatemala). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 151 (Yaruca, 

 Honduras) . 



D[endrornis] erythropygia Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 

 839, part (monogr.). 



[Dendrornis] erythropygia Sclater and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68, 

 part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 78, part. 



[D[endrornis] triangularis erythropygia Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1896, 376, in text. 



[Dendrocolaptes] erythropygius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 177, no. 2405. 



Xiphorhynchus erythropygius Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., xlviii, no- 

 1579, May 13, 1905, 63. 



XIPHORHYNCHUS PUNCTIGULUS PUNCTIGULUS (Ridgway). 



SPOTTED-THROATED WOODHEWER. 



Somewhiit like X. erythropygius, but color of pileiim, back, and 

 under parts greenish or ocherous olive instead of olive-brown, back 

 without streaks or with very narrow ones on anterior portion only, 

 and throat spotted rather than barred with dusky. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum deep olive, the feathers more or less 

 broadly tipped or terminally margined with dusky, and usually (some 

 of them at least) with a narrow shaft-streak of pale buff; hindneck, 

 back, and scapulars deep ocherous olive, the more anterior scapulars 

 and interscapulars sometimes with a very narrow mesial streak of 

 light buff; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut, the shafts of 

 rectrices darker; wing-coverts and most of outer webs of primaries 

 olive, the secondaries chestnut, but outer webs of distal ones edged 

 with olive; an indistinct superciliary stripe of light buff (obsolete 

 anterior to eye) broken by dusky olive margins or edgings to the 

 feathers; lores nearly uniform dusky; auricular region streaked with 

 dusky olive and light buff or yellowish buff, the suborbital and 

 malar regions dusky olive spotted or speckled with buffy; chin and 

 throat buff, the latter with a triangular or diamond-shaped spot of 

 deep olive on tip of each feather; rest of under parts clear, somewhat 

 greenish, olive, each feather with a central cuneatc, guttate or fusi- 

 form spot of buff, these markings narrower (streak-like) on sides, less 

 distinct on flanks; under tail-coverts buff mesially (broadly), edged 

 with olive, the longer ones nearly uniform rusty; under wing-coverts 



