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hair brown), in strong contrast with general coloration of upper and 

 under parts; a conspicuous supra-auricular (postocular) streak of 

 tawny-ochraceous ; lores pale grayish or dull grayish white flecked 

 with dusky; under parts plain dull tawny-ochraceous or raw-sienna, 

 paler on chin and throat (where feathers are whitish sub-basally), 

 deeper laterally, passing into more grayislr brown on thighs and 

 cinnamon-rufous or rufous-tawny on under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts ochraceous-buff, the mner webs of remiges broadly edged 

 with dull white or bufFy white; maxilla horn color, darker on culmen; 

 mandible horn color with gonys (broadl^y) whitish (in dried skins); 

 iris dark brown;" legs and feet light yellowish horn color (in dried 

 skin). 



Adult male. — Length (skm), 151.5; wing, 90; tail, 69.5; culmen, 

 18.5; tarsus, 20; middle toe, 14.5.^ 



Panama (Santiago de Veragua; Cascajal, Code). 



Philydor fuscipennis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 72 (Santiago de Vera- 

 gua, Panamd; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 143 (Santiago de Verdgua). — 

 ScLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 99. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 161, pi. 46, fig. 1. 



[Philydor] fnscipe7inis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 172, no. 2310. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 66.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 68. 



Genus XENICOPSIS Cabanis. 



Syndactyhi (not Syndactylus Boitard, 1842) Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., 

 1853, 171. (Type, Xenops rufo-supcrcUiatus Lafresnaye.) 



Xem'copsis c Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Aug., 1859, 32. (Type, Xenops 

 rufo-superciliatus Lafresnaye. ) 



Medium sized Furnariidse (length about 145-190 mm.) with small, 

 roundish, non-operculate nostrils, culmen (from base) shorter than 

 tarsus, and basal phalanx of middle toe not wholly united to lateral 

 toes. 



Bill much shorter than head, relatively rather deep and compressed, 

 its width at loral antia? much less tlian its depth at same point and 

 equal to one-third to much more than one-third the distance from 

 nostril to tip of maxilla; culmen (from base) shorter (usually much 

 shorter) than tarsus, broadly and rather indistinctly ridged, nearly 

 straight for basal half (more or less), more or less strongly decurved 

 terminally, the tip of maxilla slightly uncinate or sub-uncinate; 

 maxillary tomium straight or very nearly so to near tij), where more 

 or less (for a very short distance) decurved, without trace of sub- 

 terminal notch; mandibular tomium straight or slightly convex (the 



« Heyde, on label. 



b One specimen, from CascajAl, Cocl^, Panamd. An adult with sex undetermined 

 from Panama (Lion Hill?) measures as follows: Wing, 92.5; tail, 70; culmen, 18. 



<^'^ S£WK6(pec (=Hvcu'p) von ^eviKoc (fremdartig) und oi/'.'f (Aussehen)." (Cabania 

 and Heine.) 



