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154 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
HYLOPEZUS DIVES (Salvin). 
DIVES ANTPITTA. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck dull slate color, indis- 
tinctly streaked or squamated with slate-blackish; rest of upper parts 
dull slate color anteriorly passing into olive posteriorly, the feathers 
(especially the scapulars) with very narrow and mostly indistinct 
shaft-streaks of pale buffy; upper tail-coverts and tail russet-brown 
or vandyke brown; general color of wings deep olive-brown, the 
outer webs of primaries paler and more rufescent brown; outermost 
feather of alula edged with buff or ochraceous-buff; loral, orbital, 
and suborbital regions buff, more or less flecked with dusky, the 
lower-anterior portion of auricular region deeper buffy; upper-pos- 
terior portion of auricular region dull slate color, more or less tinged 
with olive; malar region, chin, and throat white or buffy white, 
the first more or less flecked with dusky; chest and sides of breast 
ochraceous, the feathers with median or central portion paler and 
edged with black, producing a streaked effect; sides, flanks, under 
tail-coverts and under wing-coverts plain ochraceous to rufous-tawny ; 
inner webs of remiges passing into dull vinaceous-cinnamon on edges; 
maxilla brownish, paler along tomia, darker (sometimes nearly black) 
on culmen; mandible pale dull yellowish (in dried skins), usually 
tinged with brownish laterally or terminally; legs and feet pale yel- 
lowish or yellowish brown (in dried skins). 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 118-129 (124); wing, 73.5-78 (75.8); 
tail, 29-31 (30); culmen, 19-19.5 (19.3); tarsus, 37; middle toe, 
18-20.5 (19.2).¢ , 
Adult female.—Length (skin), 119; wing, 75; tail, 30; culmen, 18; 
tarsus, 36; middle toe, 19. 
Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Tucurriqui; Jiménez; Gudcimo; 
La Vijégua) and Nicaragua (Chontales; Greytown; Rio Escondido; 
Los Sébalos). 
Grallaria dives Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. April 1, 1865), 582 
(Tucurrfqui, e. Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibis, 1872, 313 (Chon- 
tales, Nicaragua).—LawreEnce, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1865, 182 (Greytown, 
Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 110 (Tucurriqui, Costa Rica).—Franrzius, Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica).—SciaTer, Ibis, 1877, 450 (Tucurrfqui, Costa 
Rica; Chontales, Nicaragua; monogr.; crit.); Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 
323 (do.).—Nurtine, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406 (Los S&balos, 
Nicaragua).—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 406, footnote (crit.; 
Greytown and Los Sébalos).—CuErriz, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 
534 (Costa Rica; descr. young).—SaLvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 
Aves, ii, 1892, 243, pl. 53, fig. 1—Ricumonp, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 
1893, 504 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). 
[Grallaria] dives Scuater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 76.—SHarpz, 
Hand-list, iii, 1901, 43. 
@ Three specimens. 
