172 DENDEOCOLAPTIDiE. 



Vera Cruz, where both B. anabatina and B. homochroa occur; and these two birds 

 spread through Central America to the State of Panama, being joined in Costa Eica by 

 B. olivacea, and at Panama by B. ruficeps. 



1. Dendrocincla anabatina. 



Dendrodncla anabatina, Sc\. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 54, 1. 150'; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 162'; Scl. 



& Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 54 ' ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 450 * ; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



vi. p. 404'; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 490, 590°. 

 Dendromanes anabatinus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 382' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 35 ' ; P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 837 " ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 192 ". 

 Dendrocops anabatinus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 118 ". 



Supra olivaceo-brunnea, dorso postico paUidiore, tectricibus supracaudalibus et cauda rubiginosis, loris et gula 

 cervino-albidis, stria postoculari cervina indistincta : subtus paUidior, pectore striis rhachidalibus cervinis 

 indistinctis notato ; alis extus mfo-cervinis, remigum apicibus nigricanti-brunneis, tectricibus omnibus dorso 

 concoloribus, tectricibus subalaribus et alis subtus (praeter apices) pallide cinnamomeis : rostro corneo, 

 pedibus saturate coryUnis. Long, tota 7'0, alae 3"7, caudse 2-85, rostri a rictu 1*05, tarsi 0*9. (Descr. 

 feminae ex Teapa, Tabasco. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Mexico, Mirador and Potrero in Vera Cruz {U.S. Nat. Mus.), Playa Vicente 

 (Boucard''), Teapa in Tabasco (Mrs. E. H. Smith), Northern Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 

 British Hondueas, Orange Walk (Gaumer); Guatemala, Rancho Tuilha on the 

 Cahabon-Peten road, Choctum and Coban ^ (0. S. & F. B. G.) ; Hondueas, Omoa 

 (Leyland^^^), San Pedro (G. M.Whitely^), Segovia River (Townsend^); Nica- 

 ragua, Los Sabalos (Nutting) ; Panama, Chiriqui, Bugaba ^ (Arce). 



A specimen obtained at Omoa in Honduras by Leyland formed the type of this 

 species, and was described by Mr. Sclater in 1859 i. The bird has since been traced 

 over the whole of the forest-region of the eastern side of the Cordillera, from Playa 

 Vicente, in Mexico '', in the north to Chiriqui i" in the south. We have no record of its 

 occurrence in Costa Rica, though it is doubtless found there, as it has been observed at 

 Chiriqui and specimens sent us from there by our collector Arce. These latter birds 

 are rather dark in colour, but not, in our opinion, separable. 



B. anabatina, like B. homochroa, lives in the dense forest of the lowlands, the two 

 birds being often seen on the trunk of the same tree picking ants from the surface of 

 the bark. 



2. Dendrocincla homochroa. 



Dendromanes homochrous, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 382'; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 353; P. Z. S. 1870 



p. 193 ^ 

 Dendrocincla homochroa, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 54'; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 450 * • 



Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 385 ', 414° ; Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 491 ' ; Salv. 



Ibis, 1889, p. 365 ' ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. p. 163 \ 

 Dendrocincla homochroa ruficeps, Ridgw. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 491 ". 

 Fusco-rubiginosa fere unicolor, pileo, alis et cauda magis cinnamomeis, dorso postico paUidiore, remigibus externis 



