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white ; secondaries barred and tipped with white ; primaries lightly 

 tipped with white, in some individuals also spotted lightly with white 

 on the distal half ; side of head behind eye and side of neck broadly 

 black ; lower foreneck and breast rather dark yellowish gray ; chin 

 and throat similar but somewhat paler ; center of lower breast and 

 abdomen scarlet-red; sides, flanks, and under tail coverts white, 

 washed more or less with light olive-yellow, and barred with black ; 

 under wing coverts white barred with black; under surface of pri- 

 maries, except at tip, and secondaries barred with white. 



Adult female, like male, but with center of crown narrowly black ; 

 yellow of forehead extending over forecrown, and nape yellow like 

 hindneck. 



Immature, breast mottled or spotted faintly with darker color. 



A female, taken near El Volcan, Chiriqui, March 18, 1965, had 

 the iris mouse brown; base of gonys dull white; rest of bill black; 

 tarsus and toes dull greenish gray, with the scutes bordered by white ; 

 claws dull black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui and Veraguas), wing 

 109.7-115.7 (112.8), tail 51.5-58.6 (55.7), culmen from base 25.1- 

 28.3 (26.7, average of 9), tarsus 20.6-21.2 (20.9) mm. 



Females (10 from Chiriqui, Veraguas, and Costa Rica), wing 

 106.8-115.7 (111.4), tail 50.0-59.4 (54.7, average of 9), culmen from 

 base 23.4-26.7 (25.3), tarsus 19.6-21.2 (20.3) mm. 



Resident. Locally common in western Chiriqui from near the sea 

 to 1,280 meters on the western slopes of Volcan Baru. 



In actions this species is similar in general to Wagler's woodpecker, 

 but ranges more in forested areas. Near Santa Clara in western 

 Chiriqui I found a group of half a dozen in the tops of tall trees over 

 a coffee plantation, but it was more usual to encounter them in pairs 

 or singly. Where forest growth has been cleared they range in scat- 

 tered trees, living or dead, usually near the forest border, and also 

 come into second growth. Near Puerto Armuelles, they were fairly 

 common from near the sea to the hill country inland. Their calls are 

 like those of Wagler's woodpecker, but somewhat louder, closely 

 similar in fact to the notes of the red-bellied woodpecker of the 

 southeastern United States. Near El Volcan I observed a mated pair 

 at a nesting hole 10 meters from the ground in a dead stub at the 

 border of a pasture. 



Alexander Skutch (Auk, 1948, pp. 225-260) in a detailed study 

 of this species in Costa Rica recorded that they are expert flycatchers 

 of flying insects, in addition to the more usual fare of grubs and 



