BLACK-STRIPED WOODHEWER 



7. Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus lachrymosus 



(Lawrence) 

 Black-striped Woodhewer 



Sexes alike. Length 232 mm. (9.10 in.); 

 tail 97 mm. (3.80 in.). Head and neck (in- 

 cluding its sides), upper back and scapulars 

 black covered with conspicuous oval spots of 

 pale buff, forming streaks; lower back and 

 rump, wings and tail bright reddish chestnut, 

 feathers of under parts creamy buff margined 

 with black, forming streaks. Bill rather long, 

 nearly straight, though curved near the tip; 

 tail, as in two preceding species. 



A much less common bird than X. n. nanus, 

 of similar habits, though easily distinguished 

 from it by the streaked upper back and by its 

 larger size. "Shot from a tree trunk in the sub- 

 merged area of Gatun Lake." (Jewel.) 



8. Dendroplex picus panamensis Griscom 

 White-throated Woodhewer 



Sexes alike. Length about 215 mm. (8.50 

 in.); tail 90 mm. (3.50 in.). Top of head, 

 back and sides of neck dusky streaked with 

 oval spots of buff; a line of buff over eye; re- 

 maining upper parts, including wings and tail, 

 bright chestnut; chin and throat and upper 

 chest cream buff, the feathers of throat and 

 upper chest margined with black,- xforming 

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