88 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



ANABACERTHIA VARIEGATICEPS (Sclater) : Scaly-throated 

 Leaf -gleaner, Hojarasquero Serrano 



Anabaccnops varicgaticeps P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 24, 1856 



(January 26, 1857), p. 289, (Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.) 

 Xcnicopsis variegaticeps idoneus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, 



July 30, 1906, p. 108. (Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama.) 



Rather small, plain brown above, with lightly streaked crown and 

 cinnamon-buff superciliary ; throat and upper f oreneck yellowish 

 buff. 



Description. — Length 145-160 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 and hindneck grayish olive, with narrow shaft lines of dull white, and 

 edgings of dusky; back and scapulars brown; rump somewhat more 

 buffy ; wings somewhat more russet ; tail chestnut ; lores dusky to dark 

 gray, whiter immediately in front of eye ; eye-ring and superciliary 

 cinnamon-buff ; auricular region dusky, streaked on lower portion 

 with dull buffy white ; an indistinct malar streak ; chin and throat 

 yellowish buff ; the feathers on lower throat margined narrowly with 

 dusky ; rest of under surface buffy brown, in some with broad, very 

 faintly indicated pale buff streaks ; flanks darker brown ; distal under 

 tail coverts in males faintly more rufescent ; under wing coverts, 

 axillars and edge of wing ochraceous-buff ; edgings of inner webs of 

 primaries and secondaries slightly duller. 



A male, taken at El Volcan, Chiriqui, February 27, 1965, had the 

 iris brown ; maxilla and tip of mandible fuscous ; rest of mandible 

 dull greenish becoming yellow at extreme base; tarsus dull olive- 

 green ; toes, including claws, dull yellowish green. 



A female from the same locality, collected March 1, 1954, had the 

 iris dark brown ; maxilla fuscous ; mandible pale dull greenish ; basal 

 half of cutting edge of maxilla and a line on the lower edge of the 

 mandibular ramus honey yellow ; tarsus and toes dull yellowish green. 



Measurements.— M.2i\ts (10 from Chiriqui), wing 84.5-92.2 (88.3), 

 tail 66.7-72.2 (70.0), culmen from base 17.5-18.9 (18.0), tarsus 

 19.0-19.9(19.6) mm. 



Females (10 from Chiriqui) wing 79.0-81.3 (80.1), tail 61.2-68.3 

 (65.3), culmen from base 16.8-18.5 (17.5), tarsus 18.1-19.5 

 (18.8) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common in the upper Tropical and Subtropical 

 zones in the mountains of western Chiriqui, from 1250 to 1900 

 meters. 



Griscom (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 78, 1935, p. 339) listed 

 this species from Chiriqui and Veraguas, the latter in error as it is 



