264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ScLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 149, part (San Jos6 and San Fran- 

 cisco, Costa Rica; Volcdn de Chiriquf, Panamd). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 185, part (Dota, Barranca, San Jose, and San 

 Francisco, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriquf, Panamd).— Cheurie, Anal. Inst. 

 Fis.-Geog. Costa Rica, vi, 1893, 17 (San Marcos and Rio Naranjo, Costa Rica). — 

 Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 48 (Boquete, 4,000-6,000 ft., 

 Panamd).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field, Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 271 

 (Guayabo, Coliblanco, and Volcan do Turrialba, Costa Rica). 



[PicoZrtp<cs]a/^m"sScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68, part. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, iii, 1901, 83, part. 



Picolaptcs affinis ncglectus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, April 17, 1909, 

 73 (Coliblanco, e. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Carriker, Ann. Car- 

 negie Mus., vi, 1910, 655 (highlands of Caribbean slope, Costa Rica, above 2,500 

 ft.; crit.). 



PICOLAPTES LINEATICEPS LINEATICEPS Lafresnaye. 



STREAKED-HEADED WOODHEWER. 



Adult {sexes alike). — Pileiim brown (sepia or light sepia), passing 

 into lighter and warmer brown (nearly proiits brown) on hindneck, 

 each feather with a rather broad mesial streak of pale brownish buff; 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts light cinnamon-brown (between 

 cinnamon and raw-umber), the upper back usually (?) with a few 

 narrow, pointed streaks of pale brownish buff or dull buffy whitish; 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, and remiges plain cinnamon-rufous or 

 rufous-chestnut, the outer webs of primaries and distal secondaries 

 indistinctly edged with grayish brown, the terminal portion of inner 

 web of longer primaries deep grayish brown or dusky; sides of head 

 and neck streaked with sepia brown and pale brownish buff; chin and 

 throat pale dull buff, the feathers of extreme lower throat narrowly 

 margined with dusky; rest of under parts })ale buffy grayish brown 

 (pale broccoli brown or Isabella color), each feather with a broad 

 mesial stripe of pale buff, margined laterally by a narrow streak of 

 dusky — these markings becoming gradually narrower and less distinct 

 (the dusky edgings obsolete) posteriorly; under wing-coverts ochrace- 

 ous-buff, those near edge of wing pale buff with a few fleclvs of dusky; 

 inner webs of remiges vinaceous-cinnamon, the outer primaries with 

 terminal portion (extensively) grayish brown or dusky; bill pale 

 brown or dull brownish buffy, the basal portion of maxilla slightly 

 darker; iris brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or dusky olive (in 

 dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 172-190 (181); wing, 90-98 (94); 

 tail, 72-73 (72.5); culmen, 30; tarsus, 18-20 (19); middle toe, 16.° 



Eastern Panam^ (Lion Hill; Panama ; Punta de Sabana). 



Picolaptes Kneaticeps Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., ser. 2, ii, May, 1850, 277 (locality 

 unknown; type now in coll. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.). — Bangs, Proc. New 

 Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 25 (Loma del Leon, Panamd,). 



" Two specimens. 



