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Mall at 1425 meters, and also a little lower at 1280 meters toward 

 Tacarcuna proper. Here they ranged singly or in pairs that moved 

 actively through the undergrowth, often adjacent to our camp. 



The stomach of one collected near Cana on Cerro Pirre by Goldman 

 was filled with finely ground material in which I identified bits of 

 spiders, and several insects, including small Cerambycids, Curculio- 

 nids, and Scarabaeids, with moth remains and fragments of ants. 

 Others that I examined from other localities held similar insect and 

 spider material, all finely ground. 



This race continues beyond the Atrato Basin in the mountains of 

 northwestern Colombia, an area from which we have specimens taken 

 near Valdivia, Antioquia, above the eastern side of upper middle Rio 

 Cauca. 



DYSITHAMNUS PUNCTICEPS PUNCTICEPS Salvin: 

 Spotted-crowned Ant-vireo, Hormiguero Coronipunteado 



Dysithammis ptmcticeps Salvin, Proc. Zool. See. London, May 1866, p. 72. 



("Veragua"; type locality designated as Calovevora, Caribbean slope of 



northern Veraguas.) 

 Dysithamnus puncticeps intensus Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, 



January 1932, p. 343. (Cerro Sapo, Darien, Panama.) 



Small ; size and form of Dysithamnus mentalis, but with breast and 

 f oreneck narrowly streaked with black ; male with crown black, 

 spotted with white ; female with crown marked with black, and under 

 surface partly bufif. 



Description. — Length 110-120 mm. Adult male, crown and hind- 

 neck black, dotted with white, the feathers slate-gray on the sides, 

 and on the partly concealed bases ; upper surface slate or slate-gray ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts, in some, with a slight wash of olive ; 

 tail slate, tinged with olive ; wings basally dusky, edged externally 

 with slate-gray ; wing coverts tipped with white, with ends and bases 

 of spots narrowly black ; alula edged with white ; primaries and 

 secondaries tipped indistinctly with grayish brown ; side of head 

 slate-gray, with the area beneath the eye barred narrowly with grayish 

 white ; under surface white ; foreneck and breast with dusky shaft 

 lines ; sides gray ; flanks light brownish gray ; under tail coverts 

 pale buff. 



Adult female, crown tawny-ochraceous to tawny-brown, streaked 

 with black ; back, scapulars and rump grayish olive to brownish 

 gray ; upper tail coverts browner ; tail olive-brown, tipped narrowly 

 with dull buff (this mark often lost through wear) ; middle and 

 greater wing coverts darker than back, spotted terminally with buff; 



