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foreneck, breast, and sides, including sides of abdomen, bufif, with the 

 feathers margined broadly with brownish black ; flanks and center of 

 abdomen, grayish brown ; under tail coverts bufify brown with the 

 centers broadly bufif ; under wing coverts ochraceous-bufif. 



A male, taken at the head of the Rio Guabal, northern Code, 



Figure 4. — Black-striped woodcreeper, trepador listado, Xiphorhynchus 

 lachrvmosus lachrytiiosiis. 



March 2, 1962, had the iris dark reddish brown ; maxilla, except 

 base of cutting edge, fuscous-black ; cutting edge at base light 

 brownish white ; mandible neutral gray with a greenish cast ; claws 

 black. A female at Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, February 16, 1966, 

 had the iris Verona brown ; maxilla fuscous-black ; mandible pale 

 neutral gray ; tarsus greenish gray ; toes dark gray ; claws dark neutral 

 gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from eastern Province of Panama), 



