234 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



somewhat darker, especially on the lower surface, than the average 

 in a long series from eastern Panama and northern Colombia. 



PHAENOSTICTUS MCLEANNANI (Lawrence) : Ocellated Ant-bird, 

 Hormigfuero Manchado 



Figure 20 



Size medium, tail long ; reddish brown, heavily spotted with black, 

 bare skin of head bright blue. 



Description. — Length 185-205 mm. Side of head without feathers ; 

 tail long, culmen sharply ridged, nostril exposed. Adult (sexes 



Figure 20. — Ocellated ant-bird, hormiguero manchado, Phaenostictus 



mcleannani. 



alike), crown and upper hindneck dark gray to brownish gray; a 

 narrow band of rufous-chestnut across lower hindneck ; upper surface 

 olive-brown to light rufous-brown, with feathers of back, wing 

 coverts, and tertials with large spots of black, each margined with 

 pale bufif to cinnamon-buff; upper tail coverts black basally, tipped 

 with olive-brown to rufous-brown ; primaries and secondaries dull 

 black, edged on outer webs with olive-brown to rufous-brown, tail 

 black, in fresh plumage the outer rectrices tipped narrowly with 

 white ; side of head bare except for two small patches of black 

 feathers near the middle of the upper and lower eyelids ; throat, 

 f oreneck, and upper breast black ; lower breast, sides, and abdomen 

 cinnamon-rufous, spotted with black, less heavily on lower abdomen ; 



