FAMILY DENDROCOLAPTIDAE 3I 



Characters. — Paler brown above and below ; wings and tail slightly 

 paler than in D. p. veragucnsis. 



In two males in the British Museum taken at Cachi, Costa Rica, 

 by C. H. Lankester, the collector noted in one the following colors : 

 "iris brown ; bill between horn and bluish horn, feet olivaceous," and 

 in the other, "iris hazel, bill horn, feet olivaceous." 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Costa Rica), wing 120.5-130.2 

 (126.3), tail 113.4-130.8 (117.2), culmen from base 35.1-38.2 

 (36.0), tarsus 27.4-29.0 (28.0) mm. 



Females (6 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 120.5-125.6 

 (123.0), tail 107.2-118.0 (113.9), culmen from base 32.9-38.2 

 (36.3), tarsus 27.5-29.0 (27.9 )mm. 



Resident. Rare. Recorded from the Boquete region, western 

 Chiriqui. 



The first report is that of Salvin and Godman (Biol. Centr.-Amer. 

 Aves, vol. 2, 1891, p. 191) who listed a skin in their collection "said 

 to be from Panama." This specimen now is in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). W. W. Brown, Jr., collected a female at about 

 2100 meters elevation above Boquete in April 1901, recorded by 

 Bangs (Proc. New England Zo51. Club, vol. 3, 1902, p. 48). There 

 is also a female in the American Museum of Natural History taken 

 by H. J. Watson at 1825 meters above Boquete on May 6, 1903. 

 These are the records to date from the Republic. 



Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, p. 199) says 

 of this race in Costa Rica that it is "restricted to wet forest at cool 

 temperatures. It seems to keep higher in the trees than most wood- 

 hewers . . . and is met singly and seldom. It replaces at higher 

 altitudes the congeneric certhia of the tropical and lower subtropical 

 belts." Boucard (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, p. 60), who col- 

 lected male and female at Naranjo, Costa Rica, in April 1877, says 

 of them that they "were on the same tree . . . busily engaged in 

 building their nest in a hole of the trunk." 



DENDROCOLAPTES PICUMNUS VERAGUENSIS Griscom 



Dendrocolaptes picuwnus vcraguensis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no.. 280, Sep- 

 tember 10, 1927, p. 9. (Chitra, Veraguas, Panama.) 



Characters. — Darker, more reddish brown on back ; wings and 

 tail darker, more chocolate-brown ; darker, more cinnamon-buff on 

 under surface, including the under surfaces of the wings. 



Measurements. — Males (4 from Veraguas), wing 123.0-126.8 



