BIKDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 307 



Picumorus oUvaceua Chbheie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 46 (Palmdr, 



Boruca, T6rraba, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica). 

 \Picumnus olivaceus.'] Subsp. a. Pieumnus granadensis (not P. granadensis Lafres- 



naye) Harqitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 540, part (in synonymy). 

 Picwmnus granadensis (not of Lafresnaye) Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 361 (Divala, 



w. Panama). 



PICUMNUS OLIVACEUS DIMOTUS (Bangs). 



HONDTTRAS PICULET. 



Similar to P. o. olivaceus,'^ but slightly smaller (especially the 

 bill), color of back, etc., darker and less buflfy olive, and chest darker 

 and less buffy olive. Similar also to P. o. jlavotinctus, but larger 

 (especially the bill), throat more whitish (less buffy), and adult male 

 with streaks on crown orange-red (scarlet), as in P. o. olivaceus, 

 instead of yellowish orange or orange-yellow. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 92-94.5 (93.6); wing, 53-54 (53.3); 

 tail, 27.5-29 (28); cuhnen, 12-12.5 (12.3); tarsus, 12-13 (12.5); 

 outer anterior toe, 11-11.5 (11.2).* 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 93; wing, 54; tail, 27.5; cuhnen, 11; 

 tarsus, 12.5; outer anterior toe, 10.5." 



Caribbean slope of Nicaragua (San Carlos) and Honduras (C6iba; 

 San Pedro Sula; Julidn). 



Pieumnus olivaceus (not of Lafresnaye) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1870, 837, 839 (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). — Haegitt, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 548, part (Julian and San Pedro, Honduras). — 



Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 519 (San Carlos, e. Nicaragua; 



crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 452 (Julian 



and San Pedro, Honduras). 

 Pieumnus dimotus Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, July, 1903, 146 (Ceiba, 



Honduras; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). 

 Pieumnus olivaceus dimotus Bidgwat, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiv, Feb. 24, 



1911, 34 (geog. range). 



Genus NESOCTITES Hargitt. 



Nesoctites <2 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 552. (Type, Pieumnus 

 mierom^gas Sundevall.) 



Large Picumninas (wing 68-75 mm.) with nostril much nearer to 

 cuhnen than to tomium,. gonys but little longer than mandibular 

 rami, outermost primary more than half as long as ninth, no stripes 

 on side of head, and without black, white, or pale yellow on rectrices. 



Bill shorter than head, much compressed anteriorly, subcuneate 

 in lateral profile, pointed at tip, its width at anterior end of nostrils 



a See p. 303. 



6 Three specimens. 



<: One specimen. 



<* N^aos, island; kz'i-ctic, a colonist, inhabitant. (Richmond.) 



