44 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



maxilla fuscous, becoming fuscous-brown on the distal half, and 

 pale neutral gray at the extreme base, below the nostril ; tip of 

 mandible and adjacent cutting edge of maxilla light brown ; rest of 

 mandible pale neutral gray ; tarsus and toes neutral gray ; claws dusky 

 neutral gray. 



Measurernetits. — Males (10 from Panama, Colon, and Darien), 

 wing 106.2-114.5 (109.9), tail 81.0-93.0 (86.6), culmen from base 

 32.5-35.8 (33.5), tarsus 22.9-23.8 (23.3) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama and Darien), wing 99.2-108.1 (103.7), 

 tail 79.1-86.7 (83.5), culmen from base 31.8-34.1 (33.0), tarsus 

 22.4-23.1 (22.7) mm. 



Resident. Locally common in forest from Cerro Campana, west- 

 ern Province of Panama, eastward on both slopes to the Colombian 

 boundary in Darien and San Bias ; ranging to 850 meters on Cerro 

 Campana, 600 meters on Cerro Bruja, 1580 meters on Cerro Pirre, 

 and 1450 meters on Cerro Mali. 



In the small tracts of forest bordering the savannas at La Jagua 

 I was interested to encounter a few of these birds, elsewhere found 

 in heavily wooded areas in hill country and on mountain slopes. 

 Stomachs of those I have examined have contained broken bits of 

 insects, and also seeds and other remains of berries of some 

 melastome. 



This race continues in northern Antioquia in northwestern Co- 

 lombia. 



The type was collected February 13, 1899, by Heyde and Lux, at 

 Cascajal on the Caribbean slope of the Province of Code, the Rio 

 Cascajal being a tributary of the Rio Code del Norte. The collectors 

 noted that the bird was taken in "open forest." It comes from near 

 the western limit of the race. The specimen is much changed by 

 foxing but compared to specimens of punctigula of similar or older 

 date is duller, less greenish in tone, on the lower surface, and has 

 the rump and upper tail coverts darker reddish brown. Griscom 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, 1932, p. 348) was mistaken in his 

 comments on the type locality, as he was not aware that the Province 

 of Code on the Caribbean slope was heavily forested along the 

 streams. 



LEPIDOCOLAPTES SOULEYETII (Des Murs) : Streak-headed 

 Woodcreeper, Trepador Cabecirayado 



Dendrocolaptes Souleyetii Des Murs, Iconogr. Orn., livr. 12, December 1848, 

 (1849), "Planche Ixix" =: 70, and text. (Payta, Peru.) 



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