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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



in Choco, in adjacent Colombia, on both Atlantic and Pacific sides. Near 

 the Pacific coast of Panama at Jaque, along the Rio Jaque near the 

 Colombian boundary, and to a lesser extent on Cerro Pirre, harterti 

 intergrades with nominate albobrunneus, occasional specimens being 

 closely similar in the markings on the lower leg. A specimen, not de- 

 termined as to race, was taken in February 1971 at Cerro Quia (300 m) , 

 Darien; it is now the Gorgas Memorial Collection. 



CAMPYLORHYNCHUS ZONATUS COSTARICENSIS Berlepsch; 

 Band-backed Wren, Cucarachero Listado 



Figure 9 



Campylorhynchus zonatus costaricensis Berlepsch, Auk, vol. 5, no. 4, October 1888, 



p. 449. (Costa Rica.) 

 Heleodytes zonatus panamensis Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov. no. 280, September 



10, 1927, p. 12. (Santa Fe, Veraguas.) 



Fairly large; with long tail, heavily spotted breast, and upper sur- 

 face black, banded with white. 



Description. — Length 160-170 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown pale 

 brownish gray, spotted with black; upper surface black; hindneck 

 streaked widely with white; back, wings, and tail banded broadly with 

 white, the lines varied with buff, especially on the rump and tail; chin 

 to upper breast white, becoming tawny-ochraceous on sides, lower 

 breast, abdomen, and undertail coverts; foreneck and breast heavily 

 spotted with black, these spots continued sparingly on sides and under- 

 tail coverts. 



Juvenile, crown dull, slightly brownish, with a broad white super- 

 ciliary stripe, and a black line behind the eye; upper surface black; 

 wings and tail dull black, spotted and barred strongly with pale brown, 

 the markings paler to nearly white on the primaries; edge of wing 

 white; throat and upper breast, dull white, shaded lightly with buff"; 

 lower breast, sides, underwing coverts and undertail coverts cinnamon- 

 brown. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Bocas del Toro and Veraguas), 

 wing 68.0-72.2 (71.6), tail 67.1-71.4 (68.5), culmen from base 20.9- 

 25.5 (23.2), tarsus 22.8-25.7 (23.8) mm. 



Females (10 from Bocas del Toro and Costa Rica), wing 66.2-71.5 

 (68.1), tail 62.5-67.3 (64.9), culmen from base 19.8-21.9 (20.7), tarsus 

 20.7-23.6 (22.4) mm. 



Resident. Found locally in Bocas del Toro (Almirante, Cricamola, 

 upper Rio Changuena, and Veraguas (Santa Fe). 



