154 BULLETIN .50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



HYLOPEZUS DIVES (Salvin). 



DIVES ANTPITTA. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hmdneck dull slate color, indis- 

 tinctly streaked or squamated with slate-blackish; rest of upper parts 

 dull slate color anteriorly passing into olive posteriorly, the feathers 

 (especially the scapulars) with very narrow and mostly indistinct 

 shaft-streaks of pale buffy; upper tail-coverts and tail russet-brown 

 or Vandyke bro\vn; general color of wings deep olive-brown, the 

 outer webs of primaries paler and more rufescent bro\vn; outermost 

 feather of alula edged with buff or ochraceous-buff ; loral, orbital, 

 and suborbital regions buff, more or less flecked with dusky, the 

 lower-anterior portion of auricular region deeper buffy; upper-pos- 

 terior portion of auricular region dull slate color, more or less tinged 

 with olive; malar region, clmi, and throat white or buffy white, 

 the first more or less flecked wdth dusky; chest and sides of breast 

 ochraceous, the feathers with median or central portion paler and 

 edged with black, producing a streaked effect; sides, flanks, under 

 tail-coverts and under wing-coverts plain ochraceous to rufous-tawny ; 

 inner webs of remiges passing into dull vinaceous-cinnamon on edges; 

 maxilla brownish, paler along tomia, darker (sometimes nearly black) 

 on culmen; mandible pale dull yellowish (in dried skins), usually 

 tinged with brownish laterally or terminally; legs and feet pale yel- 

 lowish or yellowish brown (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 118-129 (124); wing, 73.5-78 (75.8); 

 tail, 29-31 (30); culmen, 19-19.5 (19.3); tarsus, 37; middle toe, 

 18-20.5 (19.2).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 119; wing, 75; tail, 30; culmen, 18; 

 tarsus, 36; middle toe, 19. 



Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Tucurriqui; Jimenez; Guacimo; 

 La Vij^gua) and Nicaragua (Chontales; Greytown; Rio Escondido; 

 Los Sabalos). 



Grallmria dives Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. April 1, 1865), 582 

 (Tucurriqui, e. Costa Rica; coll. Salvin aud Godman); Ibis, 1872, 313 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 182 (Greytown, 

 Nicaragua); ix, 18G8, 110 (Tucurriqui, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica).— Sclater, Ibis, 1877, 450 (Tucurriqui, Costa 

 Rica; Chontales, Nicaragua; monogr.; crit.); Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 

 323 (do.).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406 (Los SAbalos, 

 Nicaragua). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406, footnote (crit.; 

 Greytown and Los Sdbalos). — Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 

 534 (Costa Rica; descr. young). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1892, 243, pi. 53, fig. 1. — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 

 1893, 504 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). 



[Grallaria] dives Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 76. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, iii, 1901, 43. 



o Three specimens. 



