SPOTTED-CROWNED ANTVIREO 



spicuously tipped with white in the male; the 

 wing coverts with buffy white, in the female. 



Widely distributed in the underbrush of the 

 jungle and in the thickets in the less densely 

 forested regions. Common on Barro Colorado 

 Island. "Nest found May 7, 1911, in a hori- 

 zontal fork of a horizontal limb, twelve feet from 

 the ground in a thick jungle" (Jewel). 



5. Dysithamnus puncticeps Salvin 

 Spotted-crowned Antvireo 



Length about 108 mm. (4.20 in.); tail 37 mm. 

 (1.50 in.). 



Male. Upper parts slate gray, the top of the 

 head slate gray streaked with black and dotted 

 with white; wing coverts with white dots form- 

 ing two narrow bands; sides of head slate 

 gray indistinctly barred and streaked with 

 white; under parts mostly slate gray, the throat 

 and middle of the chest streaked with white, the 

 flanks tinged with buffy olive, the middle of the 

 breast and abdomen whitish. 



Female. Upper parts grayish olive brown, 

 the top of the head streaked with black and 

 dotted with buffy brown; two narrow wing 

 bars, dots and edgings to wing quills, buffy 

 brown; sides of head grayish brown indistinctly 

 streaked with white, under parts buffy ; more 

 grayish olive on sides and flanks, the throat and 

 chest sparsely streaked with dusky. 

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