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Southwestern Costa Rica (Pozo Azil de Pirris; Pozo del Rio 
Grande; El Pozo de Térraba) and adjacent portion of western 
Panama (Divala). 
Dendrornis lacrymosa (not D. lachrymosus Lawrence) Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1867, 144, part (Santiago de Verdgua, Panamé4); 1870, 193 (Volcén 
de Chiriquf and Bugaba, Panam4).—Scrater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 
1890, 183, part (Bugaba and Santiago de Ver4gua, Panam4).—Saivin and 
Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 182, part (Volc4n de Chiriquf, 
Bugaba, Bibal4z, and Santiago de Ver4gua, Panamé). 
Dendrornis lachrymosa Zetepén, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 114, part 
(Las Trojas, Costa Rica). 
Dendrornis lachrimosa CHERRIE, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 40 (Palmar 
and Boruca, s. w. Costa Rica). 
Dendrornis lachrymosa eximia Hetimayr, Journ. fiir Orn., Oct., 1903, 537 (Boruca, 
8. w. Costa Rica; coll. Vienna Mus.).—Banas, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 299 (Pozo 
del Rio Grande, s. w. Costa Rica). 
Xiphorhynchus lacrymosus eximius OBERHOLSER, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., xlviii, 
no. 1579, May 13, 1905, 63.—Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 654, 
part (Pozo Azil de Pirrfs and El Pozo de Térraba, s. w. Costa Rica). 
XIPHORHYNCHUS FLAVIGASTER FLAVIGASTER Swainson. 
SWAINSON’S WOODHEWER. 
Adults (sexes alike)—Pileum and hindneck sooty black, each 
feather with a conspicuous mesial broad guttate streak or spot of 
buff or clay color; back and scapulars raw-umber brown, each 
feather with a conspicuous broad mesial streak of buff or clay color, 
inclosed within a narrower bordering streak of black; rump more 
tawny brown passing into dull tawny or tawny-ochraceous on upper 
tail-coverts, the longer feathers of which are tinged with cinnamon- 
rufous and with more or less distinct narrower mesial streaks of 
paler, sometimes margined with blackish; tail uniform deep cinna- 
mon-rufous or rufous-chestnut; lesser wing-coverts rufous-brown, 
with very indistinct mesial streaks of paler; middle coverts raw- 
umber brown (nearly like color of back), with mesial streaks of buff 
or clay color, margined laterally with black; greater and primary 
coverts plain raw-umber brown, slightly more rufescent than color 
of black; remiges plain dull cinnamon-rufous, becoming paler and 
more brownish (less rufescent) on outer primaries; superciliary 
region buff, the feathers narrowly margined with blackish; suborbital 
and auricular regions buff, the feathers of the former margined, 
those of the latter streaked, with black; malar region, chin, and 
throat clear buff, the feathers of extreme lower throat usually narrowly 
margined with dusky; a conspicuous but more or less interrupted 
broad submalar streak of sooty black; chest buff (usually slightly 
paler than color of throat, the feathers margined with dusky or 
blackish, producing a squamate effect; rest of under parts light 
buffy brown (nearly isabella color) broadly streaked with light buff, 
