STREAKED-HEADED WOODHEWER 



wedge-shaped spots; remainder of under parts 

 tawny olive lightly streaked with buff on 

 chest. Bill long, almost straight, pale horn 

 colored; tail long, feathers rigid and sharply 

 pointed at the tips. 



Hallinan notes the species near the mouth of 

 the Rio Juan Diaz in 1915,- "creeping up a 

 dead branch." 



9. Lepidocolaptes albolineatus albolineatus 



(Lawrence) 

 Streaked-headed Woodhewer 



Picolaptes lineaticeps lineaticeps RIDGWAY, Birds of 

 N. and M. Amer., V, p. 264, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 263. 



Male. Length (two specimens) 180 mm. 

 (7.10 in.); tail 72 mm. (2.85 in.). Head and 



FIG. 52. Lepidocolaptes a. albolineatus 



neck, including sides, streaked buff and dark 

 brown; back, scapulars and wing coverts cinna- 

 mon brown; rump and greater portion of wings 

 bright reddish chestnut; chin and center of 

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