FAMILY PICIDAE 543 



plain, in others spotted and barred with black; lower foreneck and 

 breast rather pale cinnamon-rufous ; abdomen and under tail coverts 

 paler, with heavy curved or angular marks of black, except that the 

 abdomen in some is almost without markings ; under wing coverts 

 and under surface of wing cinnamon-rufous. 



Adult female, similar but without red on throat or side of head. 



These are forest woodpeckers, widely distributed but not common. 

 Two races are found in the Republic. 



CELEUS LORICATUS DIVERSUS Ridgway 



Celeus loricatus diversus Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 50, pt. 6, April 8, 1914, 

 pp. 140 (in key), 145. (Sipurio, Talamanca, Costa Rica.) 



Characters. — Darker rufous on the head and dorsal surface ; breast 

 and abdomen also darker. 



Kennard (in Kennard and Peters, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 38, 1928, p. 445) recorded the iris as oxblood red; bill ivy green; 

 tarsus pale grayish blue. 



Measurements. — Males (9 from Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro), 

 wing 121.0-126.8 (124.0), tail 62.5-70.5 (66.5), culmen from base 

 24.2-26.8 (25.4, average of 7), tarsus 20.0-22.7 (21.3) mm. 



Females (10 from Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro), wing 119.2- 

 126.8 (121.8), tail 59.7-68.2 (64.5, average of 9), culmen from base 

 22.7-26.8 (24.3, average of 9), tarsus 19.5-21.9 (20.5) mm. 



Resident. Rather rare ; known in Panama from a few records in 

 western Bocas del Toro. 



This race was first recorded in Panama by Kennard (cit. supra) 

 who collected a male at Guabo, near the Rio Guabo on the lower end 

 of the old Boquete trail back of Chiriqui Grande on March 10, 1926. 

 Benson secured 2 at Almirante May 20 and June 28 the following 

 year. Near Almirante, Wedel collected a female on the Quebrada 

 Nigua on November 1, 1927. On January 31, 1958, I took a male in 

 high forest above Water Valley. We have another male collected by 

 R. Hinds of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory near Almirante, 

 March 18, 1960. The race ranges through the dense humid forests 

 of eastern Costa Rica, mainly in the lowlands, but is found also along 

 the northern slope of the Cordillera Central to about 450 meters 

 elevation at Carrillo. Carriker, in September 1904, collected 2 on 

 the Costa Rican side of the international boundary, near the Rio 

 Sixaola below Cuabre. It is interesting that in Bocas del Toro and 

 Costa Rica this species is found in the same forests as the somewhat 

 larger Celeus castaneus. 



