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Southwestern Costa Rica (Pozo Azul de Pirrls; Pozo del Rio 

 Grande; El Pozo de Terraba) and adjacent portion of western 

 Panama (Divala). 



Dendrornis lacrymosa (not D. lachrymosus Lawrence) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1867, 144, part (Santiago de Verdgua, Panamd); 1870, 193 (Volcdn 

 de Chiriqui and Bugaba, Panama). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 

 1890, 133, part (Bugaba and Santiago de Veragua, Panamd). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 182, part (Volcd,n de Chiriqui, 

 Bugaba, Bibalaz, and Santiago de Verdgua, Panamd). 



Dendrornis lachrijmosa Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 114, part 

 (Las Trojas, Costa Rica). 



Dendrornis lachrimosa Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 40 (Palmdr 

 and Boruca, s. w. Costa Rica). 



Dendrornis lachrymosa exiinia Hellmayr, Journ. fiir Orn., Oct., 1903, 537 (Boruca, 

 s. w. Costa Rica; coll. Vienna Mus.). — Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 299 (Pozo 

 del Rio Grande, s. w. Costa Rica). 



Xiphorhynchus lacrymosus eximius Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., xlviii, 

 no. 1579, May 13, 1905, 63.— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 654, 

 part (Pozo Azul de Pirris and El Pozo de Terraba, s. w. Costa Rica). 



XIPHORHYNCHUS FLAVIGASTER FLAVIGASTER Swainson. 



SWAINSON'S WOODHEWER. 



Adults (sexes alike), — Pileum and hindneck sooty black, each 

 feather with a conspicuous mesial broad guttate streak or spot of 

 buff or clay color; back and scapulars raw-umber brown, each 

 feather with a conspicuous broad mesial streak of buff or clay color, 

 inclosed within a narrower bordering streak of black; rump more 

 tawny brown passing into dull tawny or tawny-ochraceous on upper 

 tail-coverts, the longer feathers of which are tinged with cinnamon- 

 rufous and with more or less distinct narrower mesial streaks of 

 paler, sometimes margined with blackish; tail uniform deep cinna- 

 mon-rufous or rufous-chestnut; lesser wing-coverts rufous-brown, 

 with very indistinct mesial streaks of paler; middle coverts raw- 

 umber brown (nearly like color of back), with mesial streaks of buff 

 or clay color, margined laterally with black; greater and primary 

 coverts plain raw-umber brown, slightly more rufescent than color 

 of black; remiges plain dull cinnamon-rufous, becoming paler and 

 more brownish (less rufescent) on outer primaries; superciliary 

 region buff, the feathers narrowly margined with blackish; suborbital 

 and auricular regions buff, the feathers of tlie former margined, 

 those of the latter streaked, with black; malar region, chin, and 

 throat clear buff, the feathers of extreme lower throat usually narrowly 

 margined with dusky; a conspicuous but more or less interrupted 

 broad submalar streak of sooty black; chest buff (usually slightly 

 paler than color of throat, the feathers margined with dusky or 

 blackish, producing a squamate effect; rest of under parts light 

 buffy brown (nearly isabella color) broadly streaked with light buff, 



