BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 27 
Naranjo; Buenos Aires; El General; Tendrio; Paso Reél, Boruca, 
Pozo del Rio Grande, and Lagarto, Boruca; Pigres; San Mateo; 
Esparta) and western Panamé (Divala and David, Chiriqui; Verégua). 
Thamnophilus bridgesi Sctarer, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 141 (David, Chiri- 
quf, Panam4; coll. P. L. Sclater;= @); 1858, 212 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit.- 
Mus., xv, 1890, 194 (Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha, Panam4).—Satvin, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 144 (David, Panamé); 1870, 194 (Bugaba and Mina de 
Chorcha),—Lawrencr, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 107 (San Mateo, Costa 
Rica).—Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 305 (Costa Rica).—Zetepon, 
Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 114 (Las Trojas and Pozo Aztl de Pirrfs, 
Costa Rica).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 199, 
pl. 49, fig. 2—Cuzrrig, Auk, x, 1893, 279, 280 (Pacific side Costa Rica, up to 
2,200 ft.; crit.; habits); Anal. Inst. Fis.-Geog. Costa Rica, vi, 1893, 17 (Pozo 
del Pitdl, Costa Rica; syn.; crit.); Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 41 
(Palmar, Boruca, Térraba, Lagarto, and Buenos Aires, s. w. Costa Rica).— 
Banos, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 296 (Boruca, Paso Real, Pozo del Rio Grande, and 
Lagarto, s. w. Costa Rica)—Carrixer, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 601 
(Pacific lowlands and foothills, Costa Rica; habits). 
[Thamnophilus] bridgesi SctateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70.— 
Suarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 12. 
Thamnophilus punctatus (not Lanius punctatus Shaw, 1809 ¢) Casayis, Journ. 
fiir Orn., July, 1861, 241 (Costa Rica; coll. Berlin Mus.; = 3).—Lawrence, 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y,, ix, 1868, 107 (Costa Rica).—Frantzius, Journ. fiir Om., 
1869, 305 (Costa Rica).—Saxvin, Ibis, 1870, 110 (Costa Rica; crit); Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 194 (Mina de Chorcha, Bugaba, and Volcan de Chiri- 
qui, Panam4).—Zetepoén, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 114 (Las Trojas 
and Pozo Aztil de Pirris, Costa Rica)—Scnater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 
1890, 191 (Costa Rica; Bugaba and Mina de Chorcha, Panam4).—Satvin and 
Gopman, Biol. Centr. Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 198, pl. 49, fig. 1. 
[Thamnophilus] punctatus SctatER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70.— 
SHarpPe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 12. 
(?)Thamnophilus nigricristatus (not of Lawrence) Boucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1878, 60 (San Carlos, Costa Rica; cites ‘‘ Th. punctatus Cab.’’)b 
Genus TARABA Lesson. 
Taraba Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 375. (Type, Thamnophilus major Vieillot.) 
Tabara (error) SctarEr, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 172. 
Diallactes Retcuensacu. Av. Syst. Nat., 1850, pl. 71. (Type, Thamnophilus 
major Vieillot.) 
Large Formicariide (length about 200 mm.) with very stout but 
much compressed, strongly hooked bill, crested pileum, and white 
under parts, the adult males black above with white markings on 
wings, adult females chestnut or tawny brown above. 
Bill nearly as long as head, very strong but compressed, strongly 
hooked; culmen nearly straight for most of its length, rather abruptly 
decurved terminally, the tip of maxilla strongly uncinate; maxillary 
@Usually placed in Thamnophilus, but in this work designated as Erionotus punc- 
tatus (p. 49). 
6 Salvin and Godman, however (Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 195), place this ref- 
erence under Cymbilanius lineatus. 
