FAMILY PICIDAE 579 



half of mandible, dull pale mouse brown ; rest of bill brownish neu- 

 tral gray; tarsus and toes brownish neutral gray; claws darker brown. 



Measurements. — Males (15 from Panama), wing 181-187 (184.0), 

 tail 100.0-117.2 (109.2), culmen from base 43.6-51.9 (46.9), tarsus 

 36.0-38.6 (36.9) mm. 



Females (14 from Panama), wing 181-188 (184.0), tail 102.5- 

 115.1 (109.0), culmen from base 41.2-47.8 (43.5), tarsus 35.1-36.9 

 (36.1) mm. 



Feathers of the tail, and to a lesser degree the primaries, in many 

 individuals are worn and often have the tips broken. 



Resident. Fairly common in lowland forests from eastern Chiriqui 

 (Cerro Chame, San Felix) and central Bocas del Toro (Cricamola, 

 on the eastern shore of the Laguna de Chiriqui), east on the Pacific 

 and Caribbean slopes to the Colombian boundary ; recorded to 900 

 meters on Cerro Chame, Chiriqui, and on the base of Cerro Tacarcuna 

 (La Laguna), Darien ; to 550 meters on Cerro Pirre, Darien. 



These are forest woodpeckers in the main that now are found most 

 often in the eastern half of the Republic wherever there is suitable 

 cover for them. Probably they were more common formerly in 

 Veraguas and eastern Chiriqui when there were more extensive 

 forests in that area than at present when so much of the land has 

 been cleared. The earliest report for Chiriqui is a specimen listed by 

 Hargitt (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 18, 1890, p. 473) as from "Chi- 

 riqui, Veragua. Capts. Kellett & Wood." This was obtained during 

 the survey voyage of H. M. S. Herald, presumably collected by the 

 naturalist Berthold Seemann. Salvin (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 

 p. 157) records a specimen sent by Arce from the Cordillera de Tole, 

 the first from the province with a definite locality. Salvin and Godman 

 (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 2, 1895, p. 448) list this record, but 

 through an oversight state on the same page that "Arce sent no 

 specimens from Chiriqui." The next locality records are those of 

 Mrs. Davidson (Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 23, 1938, p. 257) 

 who secured specimens near San Felix in December 1931, and on 

 Cerro Chame on January 12, 1932. I collected the male of a pair 

 in a small tract of forest at the hot springs in the valley of the Rio 

 Dupi about 10 kilometers west of San Felix on February 18, 1956. 

 On the Caribbean side Peters (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 71, 1931, 

 p. 319) recorded 1 taken by Hasso von Wedel at Cricamola, Bocas 

 del Toro, near the eastern end of the Laguna de Chiriqui as the most 

 western point at which the bird was known. None have been recorded 

 on the offshore islands. 



