250 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 3 



HYLOPEZUS PERSPICILLATUS (Lawrence) : Spectacled Ant-pitta, 

 Hormiguero de Anteojos 



Figure 21 



Rather small, with heavy body, short tail and long legs ; breast 

 and sides conspicuously streaked. 



Description. — Rictal bristles absent ; nasal fossae narrow, with 

 nostrils elongate. Adult (sexes alike), crown and hindneck slate 

 color ; forehead slightly olive, in some with indefinite shaft streaks 

 of rufous; rest of upper surface olive or brownish olive; back and 

 scapulars with elongate spots of buff, edged and tipped narrowly 



Figure 21. — Spectacled ant-pitta, hormiguero de anteojos, HyJopeztis 

 pcrspicillatus. 



with black; the markings often reduced in size and number, and re- 

 stricted to the scapulars ; wings browner, with wing coverts spotted 

 heavily with buff or ochraceous ; outer web of alula buff ; primaries 

 and tail feathers edged with cinnamon-buff ; lores and a conspicuous 

 eye-ring buff to ochraceous-buff ; auricular region with shaft lines 

 of buff to ochraceous-buff ; a black line on malar region ; foreneck 

 and abdomen white ; upper breast buff to cinnamon-buff, heavily 

 streaked with black, these streaks continuing on sides ; sides, flanks, 

 and under tail coverts pale buff to cinnamon-buff ; under wing coverts 

 and inner webs of primaries ochraceous-buff, with some black 

 streaks near carpal edge. 



