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sides of occiput streaked with dull wliite (instead of dotted with 

 pure wliite), wing-coverts distinctly margined with pale buffy olive 

 or olive-buffy, and streaks on sides, etc., more dusky. 



Eastern Panama (Lion Hill and Obispo stations, Panama Railway) . 



Picumnus granadensis (not of Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 



333 (Lion Hill, e. Panama). 

 Picumnus olivaceus (not of Lafresnaye) Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 



1890, 548, part (in synonymy). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, ii, 1895, 452, part (Lion Hill and Obispo, e. Panama). — Bangs, Proc. 



New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 18 (Loma del Leon, i. e., Lion Hill, e. Panama; 



crit.). 

 Picumnus olivaceus panamensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 



1911, 34 (Lion HUl Station, Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PICUMNUS OLIVACEUS FLAVOTINCTUS (Ridgway). 



VERAGXTA PICULET. 



Similar to P. o. panamensis but larger (except bill), and coloration 

 darker and duller, the color of back, etc., much less yellowish olive, 

 under parts less buffy, and black margins to feathers of malar region 

 and chin more distinct. Much more closely resembling P. o. grana- 

 densis in general coloration but pileum much duller black. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 82-89 (86); wing, 51-54.5 (53.1); 

 tail, 26.5-29.5 (27.7); culmen, 10.5-11.5 (11); tarsus, 11.5-13 (12.2); 

 outer anterior toe, 10-11 (10.7). « 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 83-89 (85); wing, 52-54 (52.7); 

 tail, 26-30 (27.7); culmen, 10.5-11.5 (11); tarsus, 11.5-12.5 (12.2); 

 outer anterior toe, lO-'ll (10.4). « 



Western Panama (Divala; Bugaba; Mina de Chorcha), and south- 

 western Costa Rica (Pozo Aziil de Pirris; Pozo del Rio Grande; 

 Buenos Aires; Boruca; Palmar; Terraba; Paso Real; El General). 



Picumnus flavotinctus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, sig. 34, Sept. 20, 1889, 

 543 (Pozo Azul de Pirris, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Picumnus olivaceus flavotinctus Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, Dec. 16, 1902, 606 

 (crit.). — Bangs Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 147, in text; Auk, 

 xxiv, 1907, 293 (Boruca, Paso Redl, and Pozo del Rio Grande, s. w. Costa 

 Rica. — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 594 (lowlands of s. w. Costa 

 Rica; habits). — Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., xxiv, 1911, 34 (geog. range). 



P[icumnus] o[livaceus] flavotinctus Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxiii, 1909, 

 67, in text. 



Picumnus olivaceus (not of Lafresnaye) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 212 (Mina de Chorcha and Bugaba, w. Panama; crit.). — Zele- 

 DON, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 24; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 

 111 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa. Rica, i, 1888, 124 (Costa Rica).— 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 548, part (in synonymy). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 452, part (Pozo Azul de PiiTis, 

 Costa Rica; Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha, w. Panama). 



« Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 



