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tensive and has been less disturbed. The birds range singly or in pairs 

 through open woodland. I have seen them most often in lower, 

 smaller growth along the playas of the larger rivers, and at the borders 

 of mangroves near the coast. At La Jagua and near Chepo where they 

 were found in the lines of trees bordering the streams and marshes 

 in the open lowlands, in mid-April they were in breeding condition. 

 In feeding they are gleaners from the bark of the trees over which 

 they climb. Stomachs of those that I have examined have been 

 filled with small insects, including a variety of beetles, many ants, 

 roach egg cases, small wasps and bees, pentatomids, caterpillars, 

 and occasionally small moths, and bits of spiders. 



Specimens were taken at Jaque in eastern Darien, and on the 

 Quebrada Venado near Armila, eastern San Bias. In the latter area 

 they are recorded also at Puerto Obaldia. In Colombia this race 

 continues through northern Choco (Unguia, Acandi), the valley of 

 the Rio Sinu in Cordoba, northwestern and central Antioquia, and 

 southern Bolivar through Santander and Norte de Santander to 

 Tachira and Merida in western Venezuela. 



The type specimen, examined in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, has "Lafr. Coll. no. 2227" on the back of the label as its 

 only data. It is in good condition as regards plumage and color. 

 The color of the rump (protected by the tips of the wings), the 

 pattern of pale and dark stripes on the anterior lower surface, and 

 the limited extent of the streaking on the upper back, agree with 

 series from the Canal Zone eastward. This verifies the assignment of 

 the name by Peters (Check-list Birds World, vol. 7, 1951, p. 48). 

 Measurements of the type are as follows : wing 98.2, tail 80.3, culmen 

 from base 28.6, tarsus 18.3 mm. 



LEPIDOCOLAPTES AFFINIS NEGLECTUS (Ridgway) : 

 Spotted-crowned Woodcreeper, Trepador Cabecimanchado 



Picolaptes affinis neglecttts Ridgway, Proc. Biol. See. Washington, vol. 22, April 

 17, 1909, p. 73. (Coliblanco, Costa Rica.) 



Medium size ; back, wings, and tail cinnamon-brown ; breast 

 streaked, crown and hindneck spotted with pale bufify white. 



Description. — Length 200-220 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 and hindneck light sepia-brown, spotted with buffy white, each spot 

 tipped and edged narrowly with black ; back and wing coverts 

 umber-brown, the upper back in some streaked lightly with pale 

 buff ; rump and upper tail coverts cinnamon-brown ; inner primaries 

 and secondaries cinnamon-brown ; outer primaries duller, tipped with 



