FAMILY DENDROCOLAPTIDAE 25 



128.8-143.8 (134.4. average of 9), tail 106.0-122.9 (114.4) culmen 

 from base 50.1-54.7 (52.1), tarsus 32.2-34.8 (33.6) mm. 



Females (5 from Costa Rica), wing 127.3-136.5 (132.1), tail 

 111.4-119.8 (115.6). culmen from base 47.5-56.3 (52.3), tarsus 

 33.0-35.5 (33.9) mm. 



Status uncertain ; known from a single record. 



One in the American Museum of Natural History, received in 

 the Rothschild collection, originally in the Museo Dalmas, is labeled 

 Miramar, 1100 meters, Chiriqui, taken by Antonio Lara, September 

 1897. The collector is not known to me, nor is the locality (which 

 may have been on the southern slopes of the volcano in the Boquete 

 area). The specimen agrees in coloration with the race of Costa 

 Rica. 



According to Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, 

 p. 198) in Costa Rica this race is found rarely in the wetter forest 

 areas "along the northern and eastern sides of the Cordillera 

 Central, and at the headwaters of the Rio Reventaz6n adjacent to 

 the northern end of Talamanca Cordillera." 



XIPHOCOLAPTES PROMEROPIRHYNCHUS PANAMENSIS 



Griscom 



Xiphocolaptcs emigrans panamensis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 280, Sep- 

 tember 10, 1927, p. 7. (Above Chitra (1100 meters), Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Darker, more rufescent brown. 



Measurements. — Male (1 from Veraguas; type), wing 135.3, tail 

 1 17.5, culmen from base 48.5, tarsus 32.0 mm. 



Females (4 from Veraguas), wing 127.7-134.8 (132.2), tail 101.8- 

 112.1 (110.2), culmen from base 51.2-53.9 (51.7), tarsus 31.8-33.5 

 (32.2) mm. 



Resident. Rare, recorded near Chitra, Veraguas. 



The race was described from a male and four females collected 

 by R. R. Benson in January 1926, at elevations of 900 to 1100 meters. 

 The specimens, in the American Museum of Natural History, are 

 alike in their dark coloration, in which they differ definitely from 

 the grayer race of Costa Rica. 



DENDROCOLAPTES CERTHIA (Boddaert) : Barred Woodcreeper, 

 Trepador Barreteado 



Figure 3 



Picus certhia Boddaert, Table Planch, enlum., 1783, p. 38. (Cayenne). 



Size medium ; brown, finely cross-barred with black on head, back, 

 and under surface. 



