32 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



(124.8). tail 111.2-117.1 (114.4), culmen from base 37.2-38.1 

 (37.5, average of 3), tarsus 27.0-27.5 (27.2) mm. 



Female (1 from Veraguas), wing 117.6, tail 108.9, culmen from 

 base 35.9, tarsus 27.8 mm. 



Resident. Rare, little known ; recorded from the highlands of 

 \'eraguas. 



In addition to three males in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, collected by Benson near Chitra. January 25, and March 11 

 and 12, 1926, at elevations ranging from 1060 to 1220 meters, 

 Griscom in the original description had available a female received 

 from J. H. Batty, also labeled Chitra with the date April 17, 1901. 

 Another specimen is a male in the U.S. National Museum received 

 from Heyde and Lux, labeled "Capira, Isth. Panama," dated April 

 21, 1888, and marked "found: open, high forest." The bird agrees 

 in color with the series in New York, but the locality is questionable. 

 Capira is in the level lowlands of the western sector of the Province 

 of Panama, where this woodcreeper would not be found. It is 

 possible that the specimen was taken at Chitra. where the bird is 

 known, a point visited by the men concerned in June and July 1889. 



Salvin and Godman (Biol .Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 2, 1891, p. 191) 

 mention one "said to be from Panama," a bird now in the British 

 Museum. It is an example of the race veragiiensis, but without 

 indication of definite locality, date, or sex. 



DENDROPLEX PICUS EXTIMUS Griscom: Straight-billed 

 Woodcreeper, Trepador Piquirecto 



Dendroplex picirostris extimus Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 280, September 

 10, 1927, p. 6. (Aguadulce, Code, Panama.) 



Foreneck pale buffy white ; bill straight, the tip or entire length 

 light colored. 



Description. — Length 190-215 mm. Bill straight, tip of maxilla not 

 decurved. Adult (sexes alike), crown fuscous to blackish brown, 

 marked with narrow elongated spots of pale dull bufify white, chang- 

 ing to broader streaks edged narrowly with black on the hindneck ; 

 upper back dull snuff brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts tawny-brown ; wings cinnamon-brown tipped with fuscous ; 

 wing coverts duller, more olive ; tail cinnamon-brown ; superciliary 

 white, with the feathers edged with dusky ; side of head dull white ; 

 throat and upper foreneck white to pale buffy white, edged narrowly 

 on lower foreneck and upper breast with black, the light streaks 

 narrower and more linear on breast ; abdomen and sides faintly dull 



