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Adult female —Length (skins), 113-134 (123); wing, 77-82 (79.6); 
tail, 27-35 (29); culmen, 18-20 (19.2); tarsus, 35-38.5 (36.2); middle 
toe, 16.5-18 (17.2). 
Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Angostura; Talamanca; Santa 
Clara; Jiménez; San Carlos; La Balsa; El Hogar; Guapiles; Cuabre; 
Guacimo; Volcan de Turrialba; La Florida; La Cristina; La Vijagua) 
and Nicaragua (San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua). 
Grallaria perspicillata (not of Lawrence, 1861) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 
1868, 110 (Angostura, Costa Rica).—Franrzius, Journ. fir Orn., 1869, 306 
(Costa Rica).—Bovucarp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Carlos, Costa 
Rica).—ScraTer, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 325, part (syn. part; 
“Valza,” i. e., La Balsa, Costa Rica). 
(Grallaria] perspicillata ScLatER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 76, part 
(Costa Rica).—Suarre, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44, part (Costa Rica). 
G{rallaria] intermedia Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vi, no. 26, April 11, 1884, 
406, footnote (Talamanca, Costa Rica; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.). 
Grallaria intermedia Zetepén, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 115, part 
(Jiménez, Costa Rica)—Curerriz, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 534 
(Jiménez; crit.).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 
243 (Angostura, La Balsa, Talamanca, Jiménez, and San Carlos, Costa Rica). 
[Grallaria] intermedia SHARPE, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44. 
Hylopezus intermedius CARRIKER, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 629 (Caribbean 
lowlands of Costa Rica up to 800 or 900 ft.; crit.; habits). 
Family FURNARIID. 
THE OVEN BIRDS. 
Tracheophone Mesomyodian Passeres, with the metasternum 
2-notched, interorbital septum perforate, maxillo-palatines very 
long and slender (and continued backward to or beyond the level of 
the free end of the median descending plate of the palatine), tensor 
patagii brevis tendon normally passerine, nares schizorhinal, syrinx 
tracheal (with two pairs of short tracheo-bronchial muscles), palate 
schizognathous, mesorhinium normal, tarsal envelope endaspidean, 
outer toe much shorter than middle toe, hallux (without claw) not 
shorter than inner toe (without claw), and middle toe united to outer 
toe by less than the whole of its second phalanx (usually for more or 
less of first phalanx only). 
>Anabatide Casanis, Wiegmann’s Archiv fir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 230, 338 
(includes Dendrocolaptide).—CaBanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1860, 
22.—Carus, Handb. Zool., 1868, 266. 
=Anabatide Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 210.—Huxuey, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1867, 471, in text. 
= Anabatine CaBanis, Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 338. 
<Furnariine CaBanis, Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 339.— 
SUNDEVALL, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1872, 55 (English translation, 
1889, 121).—Garrop, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 452. 
@ Ten specimens. 
