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whitish, or uniform deep olive, with only the sides of head and part 

 of throat very narrowly streaked with whitish. 



Adult OTttZe.— Length (skins), 110-120 (115.3); wing, 67-59 (57.9); 

 tail, 37.5-40 (38.6); exposed culmen, 15-18 (16.4); tarsus, 20-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 18-15 (13.9).« 



Adult female.— LiB^gth (skins), 107-115 (111.8); wing, 64-60 (56.6); 

 tail, 37-39 (37.6); exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 13.* 



Eastern Nicaragua (Greytown; Los Sabalos; Rio Escondido) and 

 Costa Rica (Rio Frio; Talamanca; Siguerres; Pacuare; Juiz; Jimenez; 

 Turrialba; Tucurrique; Santa Rosa; San Carlos; Val; Cervantes) to 

 Isthmus of Panama (Santiago, Veragua; Cascajal, Province of Code). 



Thryothorus thoradcus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 580 (Tucurrique, 

 Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 134 (Santiago, Veragua). 



Thryophilus thoradcus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 93 (Tucurrique and 

 Santa Eosa, Costa Rica). — Boucahd, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 51 (San 

 Carlos, Costa Rica) . — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 

 86, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 215.— Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 3; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 105; Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 105 (Jimenez and Pacuare, Costa Rica). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 398 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua).— 

 Chbrhib, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 520 (Costa Rica; crit.) . — Richmond, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 483 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; habits). 



IThryophilus] thoradcus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 7. 



ITroglodytesI thoradcus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 190, no. 2591. 



Thryothorus brunneus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, Oct., 1865, 179 

 (Greytown, Nicaragua; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.;=young). 



THRYOPHILUS PLEUROSTICTUS PLEUROSTICTUS (Sclater). 

 SCIATER'S BANDED WHEN. 



Adults (sexes alihe). — Above plain cinnamon-brown, duller (approach- 

 ing broccoli brown) on pileum, brighter on rump, the upper tail-coverts 

 deep cinnamon or russet; tail deep cinnamon or russet, barred, more 

 or less regularly, with dusky; wings similar in color to back, the rem- 

 eges barred with grayish dusky or dull blackish, the greater coverts 

 less distinctly barred (bars sometimes obsolete); alula dusky, edged 

 with white or whitish; outermost middle coverts sometimes with a 

 whitish terminal spot and subterminal dusky bar; a conspicuous super- 

 ciliary stripe of white; a broad postocular streak or stripe of brown; 

 sides of neck broadly streaked with white and black; loral region pale 

 grayish; suborbital region, malar region and auricular region (except 

 upper portion) white, the last (sometimes the first also) narrowly 

 streaked (more or less distinctly) with dusky; under parts white, the 

 under tail-coverts, sides, and flanks broadly barred or banded with 

 black, these markings sometimes more broken and irregular on ante- 



a Eight specimens. * Five specimens. 



