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Adult female. —Length, (skins), 113-131 (123); wing, 77-82 (70.6); 

 tail, 27-35 (29) ; culmen, 18-20 a9.2); tarsus, 35-38.5 (36.2); middle 

 toe, 16.5-18 (17.2).« 



Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (iVngostiira; Talamanca; Santa 

 Clara; Jimenez; San Carlos; La Balsa; El Ilogar; Guapiles; Cnabre; 

 Guacimo; Volcan de Turrialba; La Florida; La Ch'istina; La Vijagua) 

 and Nicaragua (San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua). 



Grallaria pcrspiciUata (not of La'.Yrence, 1861) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 

 1868, 110 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 306 

 (Costa Rica).— BoucARD, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Carlos, Costa 

 Rica).— SCLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 325, part (syn. part; 

 " Valza," i. e., La Balsa, Costa Rica). 



[Grallaria] ■perspicillata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 76, part 

 (Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44, part (Costa Rica). 



G[ralland\ intermedia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., \\, no. 26, April 11, 1884, 

 406, footnote (Talamanca, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Grallaria intermedia Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 115, part 

 (Jimenez, Costa Rica).— Cherrie, Proc. LT. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 534 

 (•limenez; crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 

 243 (Angostura, La Balsa, Talamanca, Jimenez, and San Carlos, Costa Rica). 



[Grallaria] intermedia Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44. 



Ilylopczus intirmcdius Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 629 (Caribbean 

 lowlands of Costa Rica up to 800 or 900 ft.; crit.; habits). 



Family FURNARIID.E. 



THE OVEN BIRDS. 



Traclieophone Mesomyodian Passeres, with the metasternum 

 2-notched, interorbital septum perforate, maxillo-palatines very 

 long and slender (and continued backward to or beyond the level of 

 tlie free end of the median descending plate of the palatine), tensor 

 patagii brevis tendon normally passerine, nares schizorhinal, syrinx 

 tracheal (wdth two pairs of short tracheo-bronchial muscles), palate 

 schizognathous, mesorliinium normal, tarsal envelope endaspidean, 

 outer toe much shorter than middle toe, hallux (without claw) not 

 shorter than inner toe (without claw), and middle toe united to outer 

 toe by less than tlie whole of its second phalanx (usually for more or 

 less of first phalanx onl}^ . 



'^Anahatidse Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 230, 338 

 (includes Dendrocolaptidae). — Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1860, 

 22.— Carus, Handb. Zool., 1868, 266. 



—Andbatidx Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 210. — Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1867, 471, in text. 



=Anahalinse Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 338. 



<^Furnariinx Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 339. — 

 SuNDEVALL, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1872, 55 (English translation, 

 1889, 121).— Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 452. 



" Ten specimens. 



