BANGS: BIRDS AND MAMMALS FROM HONDURAS. 15F 
whitish; the shaft-spots on pileum larger; and the shaft-stripes on nape and 
upper back much larger and more conspicuous. 
Measurements. — Type, adult @, wing, 99.; tail, 86.5; tarsus, 22.5; exposed 
culmen, 34. 
Remarks. — 1 have lately examined and studied with great care a large series 
(my specimens and all those in Washington) of Dendrornis nana and find the 
supposed great amount of variation in this species to be geographical and not 
individual. Any series of specimens from one place varies surprisingly little. 
Three very well-defined subspecies can easily be made out, as follows : — 
Dendrornis nana nana Lawr. 
Type locality ; Panama. 
Throat and shaft-stripes on breast dull ochraceous-buff; ground color of 
breast, belly, and sides dull raw umber. 
Dendrornis nana costaricensis (Rrpe.). 
Type locality ; Tucurrique, Costa Rica (extending southward into Chiriqui 
| and northward into Nicaragua). 
Throat and shaft-stripes on breast, buff yellow ; ground color of breast, belly, 
and sides dull tawny olive. 
Dendrornis nana confinis Bayes. 
Type locality ; Ceiba, coast of Honduras. 
Throat, cream buff ; shaft-stripes on breast buff ; ground color of breast, belly, 
and sides, pale raw-umber ; shaft-spots of pileum and shaft-stripes on nape 
and upper back much larger and more conspicuous than in either of the 
preceding. 
Dendrornis erythropygia Sct. 
One adult 9 ; Yaruca. 
Picolaptes compressus (Cas.). 
Seven specimens, both sexes ; Ceiba and Yaruca. Honduras examples seem 
best referred to true P. compressus, though they show an approach to P. compressus 
insignis Nels. of southeastern Mexico, both in the markings of the back and 
in measurements. P. compressus insignis has a larger bill as well as a longer 
tail than true P. compressus. 
Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae (Larr.). 
One adult 9 ; Yaruca. — 
