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130, part (Tuloom and Meco I., Yucatan). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 178, part (Peto, Buctzotz, Tuloom, Tabi, Meco 



I., etc., Yucatan). — Menegaux and Hellmayr, Mem. Soc. N. H. d'Autun, 



xix, 1906, 101, part (Izamdl, Yucatan). 

 [Dendrornis] cburneirostris ScLATERand Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68, part. — 



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

 Dendrornis fldvigaster (not Xiphorhynchus Jlavigaster Swainson) Salvin, Ibis, 



1889, 364 (Tuloom and Meco I., Yucatan).— Elliot, Auk, vii, 1890, 178, 



part (Temdx and Merida, Yucatan). — Cole, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 



1906, 132 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan). 

 Xiphorhynchus Jlavigaster yucatanensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 



Apr. 17, 1909, 73 (Tem4x, Yucatan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



XIPHORHYNCHUS STRIATIGULARIS (Richmond). 



STRIPED-THROATED WOODHEWER. 



Slightly resembling A'. Jlavigaster but differing greatly in having 

 the whole throat conspicuously streaked; buff streaks of chest, etc., 

 margined laterally with a chain-like streak of blackish; wing-coverts 

 conspicuously streaked with black and buff, and buff streaks of back 

 much broader. 



Adult jemale.^ — Pileum and hindneck sooty black, each feather 

 with a broad mesial guttate streak of buff or clay color; back and 

 scapulars brown (between light olive and raw-umber) each feather 

 with a broad mesial streak of brownish buff or clay color, broadly 

 margined with black; lesser and middle wing-coverts similar, but 

 buffy mesial streaks much narrower; greater coverts similar but 

 with still narrower streaks; remiges plam deep cinnamon-rufous or 

 rufous-chestnut, the terminal portion of inner webs of primaries 

 (except the innermost) grayish brown; rump plain light cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous tawny, the upper tail-coverts deeper cinnamon- 

 rufous, with indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; tail (mcluding shafts 

 of rectrices) plain deep cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut; sides of 

 head and neck broadly streaked with buff and sooty blackish; chin, 

 tliroat, and foreneck similarly streaked, the streaks becoming gradu- 

 ally broader and more sharply defined, and the feathers edged with 

 light buffy grayish brown, on lower foreneck; chest, breast, etc., 

 similarly streaked, but the blacldsh streaks narrower and more 

 irregular and grayish brown edgings to the feathers broader, the 

 streaks becoming gradually narrower and less distinct posteriorly; 

 under wing-coverts mixed pale cmnamon-rufous and light buffy 

 brownish (the latter prevailmg along edge of wing, where streaked 

 with buffy and blackish) ; inner webs of remiges pale cinnamon-rufous 

 or vinaceous-cinnamon, the terminal portion (extensively) of outer 

 primaries grayish brown; bill pale 3^ellowish horn color, the maxilla 

 more brownish basally; feet light horn brownish (in dried skins); 



o The adult male is unknown, but judging from the general rule in this group the 

 sexes are probably alike in color. 



