288 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



c. Coloration lighter. (Colombia to eastern Ecuad6r.) 



Dendrocincla lafresnayei lafresnayei (extralimital).'* 

 cc. Coloration darker. (Eastern Panama to southeastern Honduras.) 



Dendrocincla lafresnayei ridgwayi (p. 291). 

 66. Wing-coverts deep cinnamon-rufous or chestnut, like remiges; throat clear 

 tawny-brown or dull tawny; pileum rufous-brown to rufous-chestnut. {Den- 

 drocincla homochroa.) 

 c. General color more rufescent, the pileum rufous-chestnut, back and under parts 

 nearly chestnut or tawny-chestnut. (Southern Mexico to Guatemala and 



British Honduras) Dendrocincla homochroa homochroa (p. 293). 



cc. General color less rufescent, the pileum dull tawny-chestnut or burnt umber, 

 back and under parts nearly mummy brown. 

 d. Back and under parts deeper in color and more rufescent; slightly larger 

 (male averaging: Wing, 104.7; tail, 78). (Southwestern Nicaragua to 



western Panamd) Dendrocincla homochroa acedesta (p. 294). 



dd. Back and under parts lighter, more olivaceous; slightly smaller (male aver- 

 aging: Wing, 101.7; tail, 73.4). (Panama.) 



Dendrocincla homochroa ruficeps (p. 295). 



DENDROCINCLA ANABATINA ANABATINA Sclater. 

 NORTHERN DENDROCINCLA, 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and liindiieck sepia brown to nearly 

 raw-umber, the feathers usually with very narrow and indistinct 

 shaft-streaks of paler, those of the occiput and nape usually paler 

 and more cinnamomeous centrally (sometimes conspicuously so); 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts plain deep raw-umber (sometimes 

 nearly mummy) brown, the rump lighter and more rufescent, passing 

 into cinnamon-rufous on upper tail-coverts; tail deep cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut, the shafts of rectrices darker; remiges 

 dull tawny, or russet-tawny (the outer primaries with outer webs 

 more brownish or isabella color), with terminal portion (broadly and 

 on inner web abruptly) dusky; a more or less distinct but broken 

 supra-auricular streak of pale tawny or buffy; auricular and sub- 

 orbital regions sooty brown or sepia, with narrow shaft-streaks of 

 paler, the malar region similar but speckled or flecked instead of 

 streaked; lores dull grayish buffy, with bristly tips of feathers dusky; 

 chin and tlu-oat buff, the lower throat more or less interniLxed or 

 barred with light brownish; rest of under parts light raw-umber 

 brown, paler and more buffy or cinnamomeous on abdomen, slightly 

 darker and more olivaceous on chest, where the feathers have narrow, 

 usually indistinct, shaft-streaks of buff; under tail-coverts dull cin- 

 namon-rufous; axillars and under wing-coverts tawny-ochraceous, 

 the greater part of inner webs of remiges similar but slightly paler; 



a Dendrocincla lafresnayei Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, Jan. 6, 1888, 492 

 ("Upper Amazon?"; coll. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.); Oberholscr, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1904, 457 {monogr .) .—Dendrocincla olivacea anguina Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., xii, June 3, 1898, 138 (Santa Marta, Colombia, 5,000 ft.; coll. E. A. and 0. 

 Bangs). 



