82 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



HYLOCTISTES SUBULATUS (Spix) : Striped Leaf -gleaner, 

 Hojarasquero Listado 



Sphenura siibtilata Spix, Av. Spec. Nov. Bras., vol. 1, 1824, p. 82, pi. 83, fig. 1. 

 (Amazon River.) 



Medium size ; similar to the Lineated Leaf -gleaner but bill larger, 

 longer than tarsus ; throat and upper f oreneck cinnamon-buff. 



Description. — Length 165-180 mm. Adult (sexes alike), upper sur- 

 face dark dull brown to blackish brovun ; crown and hindneck sooty 

 black, striped prominently with light brown, each feather with a shaft 

 line of pale buff (in the darker race of western Panama the light 

 streaking continued on the upper back) ; wings rufescent brown ; lower 

 back, tail, and upper tail coverts rufous-chestnut ; sides of head dusky, 

 streaked with dull buff; chin and throat buff, the feathers in part 

 edged with dusky, especially on the lower throat ; rest of foreneck, 

 breast, and abdomen buffy olive, in some more or less streaked in- 

 distinctly with dull buff ; under tail coverts wholly or partly cinnamon 

 to cinnamon-buff; under wing coverts and edge of wing cinnamon- 

 buff; inner webs of primaries and secondaries pale cinnamon-buff. 



These are forest birds, the species being widely distributed from 

 eastern Nicaragua through Costa Rica and Panama. Beyond, it is 

 found in northern South America through Colombia and western 

 Venezuela to Ecuador, eastern Peru and eastward in Brazil in the 

 upper Amazon Valley. Two distinct subspecies are found in Panama, 

 one in the west and one in the east. Neither is common, and the 

 birds are little known. As their general appearance suggests that of 

 the somewhat larger Autoniohis ochrolaemus they may be confused 

 with that more common species which lives in the same haunts. 



The species was not recorded in the early collections made by 

 McLeannan and Arce. 



HYLOCTISTES SUBULATUS VIRGATUS (Lawrence) 



Philydor virgatus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 8, 1867, p. 

 468. (Angostura, Costa Rica.) 



Characters. — Darker, distinctly streaked with buff to buffy white, 

 narrowly on crown, hindneck, and back, more broadly on the lower 

 foreneck and breast. 



A male in the British Museum (Natural History) collected at 

 La Cristina, Costa Rica, February 10. 1907, by C. H. Lankester, has 

 the following data on the label : "Iris brown ; bill dusky horn ; feet 



