200 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
claws rather large, strongly curved, that of the hallux shorter than 
the digit. 
Coloration.—Olive-brown (paler below), the upper tail-coverts and 
tail chestnut; pileum, hindneck, and back more dusky, narrowly 
streaked with paler; chin and throat buff. the chest indistinctly 
streaked or flammulated with the same. 
Range.—Costa Rica and western Panama. (Monotypic.) 
HYLOCTISTES VIRGATUS (Lawrence). 
STRIPED HYLOCTISTES. 
Adults (sees alike) —Pileum and hindneck dark sooty brown or 
brownish black, broadly streaked with pale olive, each feather with a 
narrow shaft-streak of pale buffy; back and scapulars olive-brown, 
sometimes suffused with dusky, usually narrowly streaked (at least 
on upper back) with pale buffy; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and 
tail chestnut; wings chestnut-brown, usually lighter and more 
rufescent on basal portion of primaries; sides of head rather broadly 
streaked with dull grayish buff and dusky; chin and throat buff, the 
feathers usually edged or margined (more or less distinctly) with 
olive or dusky, at least on lower throat; rest of under parts light 
buffy olive, passing into a more rufescent hue on under tail-coverts, 
the chest, upper breast, and sides (especially the first) more or less 
distinctly streaked with paler (dull buffy); under wing-coverts ‘and 
broad edging to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla 
dark horn color (sometimes nearly black on culmen), mandible paler, 
especially on under side; iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried 
skins). 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 158-188 (165); wing, 79.5-86.5 (83.5); 
tail, 65-70 (67.7); culmen, 22-24.5 (23.4); tarsus, 19-21 (20.1); 
middle toe, 15.5-16.5 (15.9).* 
Adult female.—Length (skins), 152-190 (170); wing, 79-85.5 
(82); tail, 68-73 (69.2); culmen, 21-24.5 (23.2); tarsus, 19.5-21.5 
(20.5); middle toe, 15-16.5 (15.7).° 
Costa Rica (Angostura; San Carlos; Jiménez; Carrillo; El Hogar; 
-La Cristina; Pozo del Rio Grande; Pozo del Pitaél; El Pozo de 
Térraba; Palmar; Boruca; La Vijaégua) and Panama (Naté, Coclé). 
Philydor virgatus LAwRENcE, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 468 
(Angostura, Costa Rica; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868, 106 (Angostura).— 
Frantzivus, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 304 (Costa Rica).—Brrurpscy, Proc. U. 8. 
Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, 565 (crit.).—Sc.aTER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 96, 
a2Ten specimens from Costa Rica. An adult male from Nat&, Coclé, Panam, 
measures as follows: Length (skin), 164; wing, 84; tail, 69; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 16. 
The bill is broken. 
b Eight specimens from Costa Rica. 
