SPOTTED-THROATED WOODHEWER 



One of the common forest birds in the Canal 

 Zone, climbing on the lower parts of the tree 

 trunks like a woodpecker. It is of very restless 

 habits, flying to another tree before ascending 

 far, and has a loud, prolonged, plaintive call of 

 a succession of notes which rise slightly in 

 pitch but fall again and become slower toward the 

 end. This is one of the characteristic sounds 

 of the forests of Panama. By imitating it, the 

 bird can often be called in from a long distance. 



6. Xiphorhynchus erythropygius punctigulus 



(Ridgway) 

 Spotted-throated Woodhewer 



Xiphorhynchus p. punctigulus RIDGWAY, Birds of N. 

 and M. Amer., V, p. 255, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 268. 



Sexes alike. Length 215 mm. (8.45 in.); 

 tail 90 mm. (3.50 in.). Head brownish olive, 

 indistinctly streaked with buff; remainder of 

 upper parts tawny olive, the upper back marked 

 with oval spots of buff, the rump, wings and tail 

 chestnut; chin and throat buff, the feathers 

 tipped with olive ; remainder of under parts olive 

 spotted with pale buff. Bill dark horn color, 

 pale below, long and compressed and sharply 

 curved at tip. Tail graduated, the shafts of the 

 feathers rigid and sharp at tip. 



Found in the deep and shady forest. Climbs 

 up the tree trunks. 



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