658 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



as far backward as the middle of the abdomen ; the interscapular 

 region darker and richer brown, sparingly streaked with buffy- 

 ochraceous, while in C. p. pusillus the streaking is confined to the 

 pileum and nape ; crown much darker, being decidedly blackish- 

 brown ; throat and streaks on lower parts deep buffy-ochraceous, much 

 darker than in true pusillus ; bill dusky horn, quite blackish in young 

 birds ; toe-nails also much darker. 



This curious and easily recognized species is found over the whole 

 of the Caribbean lowlands and up the eastern slopes to at least 4,000 

 feet, in the southwestern Pacific lowlands in very small numbers (a 

 single record), and occasionally a straggler in the central highlands 

 (two records). It is most abundant in the northern part of the Car- 

 ibbean lowlands, in the so-called Santa Clara Valley, and especially 

 in the vicinity of Guacimo, El Hogar, Jimenez and Guapiles. It is 

 found only in the heavy forest, and is almost always seen feeding on a 

 certain species of palm, probing with its long curved bill between the 

 clusters of nuts and between the bases of the leaf-stalks where they 

 emerge from the crown of the tree, evidently in search of some insect 

 which makes its home in this palm. It is a rare bird and one seldom 

 encountered. 



399. Dendrocolaptes validus costaricensis Ridgway. 



Dendrocolaptes validus Taschenberg, Fauna Per., 242, pi. 21, fig. 2 (E. Peru). 



Dendrocolaptes validus (not of Taschenberg) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XV, 1890, 172, part. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 

 1 891, 191 (Costa Rican references). 



Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus Eyton, Contr. Orn., 1851, 75 (Costa Rica). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., I X, 1868, 106 (Navarro [J. Cooperl). — Frant- 

 zius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 305 (Costa Rica). 



Dendrocolaptes puncticollis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 146 (Costa 

 Rican specimens not D. multistrigatus Eyton, but D. puncticollis Scl. & Salv.). 

 — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 60 (Juan Vinas). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de 

 C. R., I, 1887, 114 (Cartago). —Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, 

 545 (Navarro [Cooper]). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 171, 

 part (no Costa Rican specimens). 



Dendrocolaptes validus costaricensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 

 1909. 73 (type from La Lagunaria de Dota, Costa Rica, June 4, 1908 [Fran- 

 cisco Basulto]; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Navarro, Cartago, and Naranjo de Cartago 



(= Juan Vinas) (J. Cooper) ; El Rey and La Lagunaria de Dota 



(Basulto). 



