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black and, together with hindneck and upper back, marked with 

 obsolete shaft-stripes of fawn color [''cervinis"]; beneath paler, all 

 the feathers of throat to middle of breast whitish margined with 

 fuscous, streaks on breast narrower, abdomen and crissum trans- 

 versely barred with brownish black, under wing-coverts and inner 

 webs of remiges cinnamon, the former variegated with fuscous, the 

 latter with terminal portion fuscous; bill horn color, mandible paler, 

 feet plumbeous. Total length 10.5 [inches = 266.5 mm.], wing 5.2 

 [132 mm.], tail 4.5 [114.5 mm.], bill to rictus 1.65 [42 mm.], tarsus 

 1 .05 [26.5 mm.].« 



Both Sclater and Salvin and Godman compare this form with the 

 South American B. picumnus, but the characters wherein it differs 

 from the Costa Rican form of D. validus are not clear from either of 

 the descriptions quoted or the context thereof. The form is^^robably 

 a subspecies of D. validus. 



Highlands of Guatemala (Tactic; San Geronimo). 



Dendrocops viultistrigatus (not Dendrocolaptcs multistrigatus Eyton) Salvin and 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 275 (Tactic and San Geronimo, Guatemala; crit.). 



Dcndrocolaptes multistrigatus (not of Eyton) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 18G2, p. 

 1G2, no. 995 (San Ger6nimo). 



Dendrocolaptcs puncticollis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 54, 

 pi. 5 (Tactic and San Geronimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and God- 

 man and coll. P. L. Sclater). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 171, 

 excl. syn. -part (Tactic and San Geronimo). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 190. 



[Dendrocolaptes] puncticollis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1SG9, 176, no. 2378. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 67.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 87. 



DENDROCOLAPTES VALIDUS COSTARICENSIS Ridgway. 



COSTA RICAN WOODHEWER. 



Similar to D. v. validus,^ but chest less distinctly streaked or with 

 streaks less regular (broken along edges by black dots or bars), and 

 under parts much more extensively barred. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dull grajash brown or 

 sepia, with narrow mesial streaks of very pale brownish buffy or dull 

 buffy wdiitish, the supra-auricular region, lower ]3ortion of auricular 

 region, and sides of neck similar but with the streaks much broader, 

 the upper ])ortion of auricular region dark sooty brown or blackish 

 with very narrow shaft-streaks of pale bufTy or dull whitish; malar 

 region with feathers dark sooty brown on margin, with a central 

 ovate spot of pale brownish buffy; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 plain olive-brown (between bister and raw-umber), the ])ack usually 



a Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 190; free translation. 



b See p. 229. (Comparison is made with si^ecimens from State of Santa Marta, 

 Colombia, which, however, probably do not represent true D. validus.) 



