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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



Female; with the small dots on crown and hindneck white (with- 

 out orange). 



Young ; crown sooty to dark grayish brown, spotted with dull white 

 to dull buff in varying amount, in some nearly plain. 



Figuke 69. — Olivaceous piculet, telegransta, Picumnus olivaceus. 



The piculet in Panama is a bird difficult to define as to its choice 

 of any especially preferred habitat because of the wide variety of 

 locations in which it may be encountered. It is found more often 

 in open thickets or along forest edge where it may range low near 

 the ground, even briefly among rank growths of weeds, or may go 

 higher into the tree crown. On occasion I have found them moving 



