44. PIC0L\PTE3. 153 



wings, rump, and tail ferruginous : beneath reddish brown, covered 

 with long and rather broad shaft-stripes of pale fulvous white ; 

 throat pure pale fulvous white ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 margins of wing-feathers cinnamomeous ; bill pale horn-colour : 

 whole length 7*5 inches, wing 'A-7, tail 3'3. Ftiitale similar. 



Hnb. Western Ecuador and ^ycstern Peru. 



This species agrees with the preceding in having the head-stripes 

 carried down over the nape and neck ; but these stripes are much 

 broader in the present bird, and the general colour of the body 

 beneath is much more rufescent. 



a. 2 ad.sk. Esmeraldas, Ecuador (Frff»w). Sclater Cull. 



b. (S ad. sk. Babaho^'o, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



c. (S ad. tk. Babahoyo, Ecuador {Fraser). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. San Pedro, Northern Peru Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(Orton). 



e. Ad. sk. Payta, Peru (Marl;Iia»i). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



12. Picolaptes compressus. 



Picolaptes lineaticeps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 252 (S. Mexico; ; icl. Car. 



A. li. p. l(J(j ; Sali\ Ibis, 18(51, p. 353 (Guatemala) ; Laior. Ann. 



Lye. jV. Y. ix. p. 107 (Costa liica). 

 Thripobrotus compressus, Cah. J. f. O. 1861, p. 243. 

 Picolaptes compressus, Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 107 (Costa Rica) ; 



Sale. Ibis, 1869, p. 314 ; id. P. Z. <S'. 1870, p. 193 (Veragua) ; 



Frantz. J.f. 0. 1869, p. 305 (Costa Rica) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. lt<78, 



p. 60 (Costa Rica) ; Scl. et Sah: P. Z. S. 1870, p. b37 (Brit. 



Honduras) ; iid. Komencl. p. 68 ; Nutting, P. U. S. A'. M. v. p. 397 



(Costa Rica). 



Above brown ; whole head and neck down to the middle of the 

 back striped with long shaft-stripes of pale fulvous white which 

 have blackish lateral margins ; wing-feathers, rump, and tail ferru- 

 ginous : beneath earthy brown with conspicuous broad shaft-stripes 

 of pale fulvous white which are laterally margined with black ; 

 throat pale fulvous ; stripes ou flanks and crissum not so definite ; 

 under wiug-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers cinnamo- 

 meous ; bill pale horn-colour : whole length 7-5 inches, wing 3-8, 

 tail 3*4. Female similar. 



Hab. Mexico and Central America down to Chiriqui. 



The extension of the shaft-stripes above over the upper half of 

 the back is the distinguishing feature of this species. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



6. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Belize, Brit. lion- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



duras (Blancaneaitz). 



c. Ad. sk. Honduras. D. Dyson [C.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Pine-ridge of Poctum, Vera Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Paz {Salvin). 



e. Ad. sk. Cbisec, Vera Paz (Salrin). Sclater Coll. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Sources of Rio de la Pasion, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Vera Paz {Sidviii). 

 g. Ad. sk. Retalhuleu, Guatemala ('SV//- Sclater Coll. 



vin). 



