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sively on outer primaries); bill horn brownish, darker on basal and 

 terminal portions of maxilla, paler on mandible (at least on lower 

 middle portion); iris brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or dark 

 olive (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but coloration darker, streaks darker 

 buff or clay color (those on back broader), exposed surface of remiges 

 (in closed \ving) mostly olive-brown, and bill nearly black. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 202-233 (223); wing, S9.5-103 

 (06.9); tail, 81-100.5 (89.6); culmen (chord), 48-57 (54.4); tarsus, 

 20-21.5 (21); middle toe, 17.5-19 (18.1).'^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 215-230 (223); wing, 90.5-99 (94.1); 

 tail, 79-91 (84.6); culmsn (chord), 55-61 (57.5); tarsus, 21-22.5 

 (21.6); middle toe, 17-19 (17.9).^ 



Costa Rica (Naranjo, La Estrella, Azahdr, and Birris, Cartago; 

 Gudpiles; Gudcimo; La Ilondura; El Hogar; Carrillo; Jim6nez; 

 Guayabo; Cariblanco de Sarapiqui; El Generdl; Cervantes; Rio 

 Sucio) and western Panamd (Volciin de Chiriqui, 700 feet, and Carib- 

 bean slope; Chitra; Boquete de Chitra). 



Xiphorhynclius pusillus (not of Sclater, 1860?) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 

 1890, 160, part (Boquete de Chitra, Chitra, and Chiriqui, Panama; Costa 

 Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 193 (Boquete de Chitra, Pan- 

 amd; crit.). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 60 (Naranjo de Cartago, 

 Costa Rica). — Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1888, 114 (Birris de 

 Cartago and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. II., ii, 1889, 

 157, part (monogr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 

 189, pi. 48, fig. 2. 



[Xiphorhynchus] pusillus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 178, no. 2430. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 69, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 86 

 (Costa Rica; PananiA). 



Xiphornis pusillus Oberiiolsbk, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., xlviii, no. 1579, May 13, 

 1905, 64. 



Xinhorhynchus grandis " Cherrie " Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 

 30, 1902, 48 (Volcdn de Chiriquf, 700 ft., Panamd; =nomeu nudum!). 



Campylorhamphiis pusillus horcalis Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, "Aug. 29" 

 (=Sept. 7), 1910, 057 (El llogdr, e. Costa Rica; coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



" Twelve specimens. i> Nine specimens, from Costa Rica. 



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