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black and, together with hindneck and upper back, marked with 
obsolete shaft-stripes of fawn color [‘‘cervinis’”’]; beneath paler, all 
the feathers of throat to middle of breast whitish margined with 
fuscous, streaks on breast narrower, abdomen and crissum trans- 
versely barred with brownish black, under wing-coverts and inner 
webs of remiges cinnamon, the former variegated with fuscous, the 
latter with terminal portion fuscous; bill horn color, mandible paler, 
feet plumbeous. Total length 10.5 [inches=266.5 mm.], wing 5.2 
[132 mm.], tail 4.5 [114.5 mm.], bill to rictus 1.65 [42 mm.], tarsus 
1.05 [26.5 mm.].¢ 
Both Sclater and Salvin and Godman compare this form with the 
South American D. picumnus, but the characters wherein it differs 
from the Costa Rican form of D. validus are not clear from either of 
the descriptions quoted or the context thereof. The form is probably 
a subspecies of D. validus. 
Highlands of Guatemala (Tactic; San Gerénimo). 
Dendrocops multistrigatus (not Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus Eyton) Sauvin and 
SciatER, Ibis, 1860, 275 (Tactic and San Gerédnimo, Guatemala; crit.). 
Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus (not of Eyton) Scuater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, p. 
162, no. 995 (San Gerénimo). 
Dendrocolaptes puncticollis ScLaTER and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 54, 
pl. 5 (Tactic and San Gerénimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and God- 
man and coll. P. L. Sclater).—Sciater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 171, 
excl. syn. part (Tactic and San Gerédnimo).—Satvin and Gopmay, Biol. 
Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 190. 
[Dendrocolaptes] puncticollis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 176, no. 2378.—ScLATER 
and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 67.—SHarrs, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 87. 
DENDROCOLAPTES VALIDUS COSTARICENSIS Ridgway. 
COSTA RICAN WOODHEWER. 
Similar to D. v. validus,? but chest less distinctly streaked or with 
streaks less regular (broken along edges by black dots or bars), and 
under parts much more extensively barred. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck dull grayish brown or 
sepia, with narrow mesial streaks of very pale brownish buffy or dull 
buffy whitish, the supra-auricular region, lower portion of auricular 
region, and sides of neck similar but with the streaks much broader, 
the upper portion of auricular region dark sooty brown or blackish 
with very narrow shaft-streaks of pale buffy or dull whitish; malar 
region with feathers dark sooty brown on margin, with a central 
ovate spot of pale brownish buffy; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 
plain olive-brown (between bister and raw-umber), the back usually 
@ Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 190; free translation. 
bSee p. 229, (Comparison is made with specimens from State of Santa Marta, 
Colombia, which, however, probably do not represent true D. validus.) 
