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I secured three of these woodhewers. Attention was drawn to them 
by their chattering calls as they clambered over the tree trunks. On 
the Hacienda Santa Maria I secured three more on November 6, 8, 
and 9, also in stands of heavy forest. One was accompanying a flock 
of other forest birds. 
These six specimens have heavy black bars below and are strongly 
marked, showing no approach to D. c. hesperwus Bangs of southwestern 
Costa Rica, in which the barrings are slightly narrower, and are 
duller black. There are specimens of hesperius in the National 
Museum from Pigres, Paso Real, and Pozo del Rio Grande. 
Family FURNARIIDAE 
XENOPS MINUTUS RIDGWAYI Hartert and Goodson 
Xenops genibarbis ridgwayi Hartert and Goopson, Nov. Zool., vol. 24, Aug. 31, 
1917, p. 417 (Tocoumé, Panama). 
The two taken were shot in the forest near the Hacienda Santa 
Maria on November 6 and 8 as they climbed over masses of vines, a 
common habit with these ovenbirds. Always the light malar streak 
is @ prominent mark that catches the eye. 
There is one skin in the National Museum taken by Juan Cooper 
in May 1874, in Talamanca, that has the tail definitely longer than 
any other that I have seen. The wing also is long and the feet 
appear large, suggesting that there may be a local race of limited 
range in that area. Measurements of this bird (U. S. N. M. No. 
68292) are as follows: Wing 67, tail 53.2, culmen from base 14.2, 
tarsus 15.1 mm. 
SCLERURUS ALBIGULARIS CANIGULARIS Ridgway 
Sclerurus canigularis Ripaway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, Sept. 20, 1889, 
p. 542 (Turrialba, Costa Rica). 
On November 14 I shot a male of this ovenbird near the summit 
of the mountain above the Hacienda Santa Maria. The bird, dark 
in color and heavy in body, decoyed in dense undergrowth in heavy 
forest. 
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PHAENOSTICTUS MCLEANNANI SATURATUS (Richmond) 
Phlegopsis saturatus RicuMonp, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, Aug. 12, 1896, 
p. 625 (Rio Escondido, 50 miles from Bluefields, Nicaragua), 
Near the old plantations at Los Cuadros on the Hacienda Santa 
Maria these antbirds were fairly common but were so shy that I 
secured only two males with some difficulty on November 8 and 9. 
They frequented dense undergrowth in heavy forest, and as I ap- 
proached slipped quietly away ahead of me. The call is a clear 
