54. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 95 
SITTASOMUS GRISEICAPILLUS SYLVIOIDES Lafresnaye 
Sittasomus sylvioides LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1850, p. 590 (State of Vera- 
cruz, México). 
A male taken on November 8 in heavy forest at Los Cuadros on 
the Hacienda Santa Maria was the only Sittasomus seen. 
This bird and all others in the National Museum from Tenorio and 
Bols6n in Guanacaste all are slightly paler than examples from Gua- 
temala and México, apparently showing intergradation toward 
race levis of western Panamé. 
XIPHORHYNCHUS FLAVIGASTER EBURNEIROSTRIS (Des Murs) 
Dryocopus eburneirosiris Drs Murs, Iconographie ornithologique, livr. 9, July 
1847, pl. 52, with text (Realejo, Nicaragua). 
The only one of these woodhewers seen was a female taken on 
November 8 in heavy forest near the Hacienda Santa Maria. This 
bird is very dark in tone, but is matched by occasional specimens from 
México. It measures as follows: Wing 103.8, tail 78.7, culmen from 
base 38.4, tarsus 24.2 mm., being thus decidedly smaller than X, f. 
ultumus Bangs and Griscom ™ from the southern end of the Nicoya 
Peninsula. 
XIPHORHYNCHUS TRIANGULARIS PUNCTIGULUS (Ridgway) 
Dendrornis punctigula Ripaway, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, Sept. 20, 1889, 
p. 544 (Naranjo, Costa Rica). 
These woodhewers were found in the heavy forest of the Hacienda 
Santa Marfa from the old plantation at Los Cuadros to the summit of 
Cerro Santa Maria. Usually they were in company with little groups 
of other forest-loving birds. ‘They were quiet in habits and no doubt 
were often overlooked as they climbed over the tree trunks. Four 
specimens were taken on November 5, 6, and 14. 
The National Museum has a considerable series of punctigulus 
from various localities. The four from the slopes of Rincén de la 
Vieja appear distinctly more yellowish green both above and below, 
with the spots on the under surface yellower when compared with 
specimens that we have had for years. I am inclined to believe that 
this difference may be due to post-mortem fading in the older speci- 
mens, since a series taken at La Vijagua in 1908 by C. F. Underwood 
resembles the other older birds, though this locality is not far to the 
south from where I collected in 1940. 
DENDROCOLAPTES CERTHIA SANCTI-THOMAE (Lafresnaye) 
Dendrocops Sancti-Thomae LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1852, p. 466 (Santo 
Tomas, near Omoa, Honduras). 
Near Liberia in a tract of heavy forest on low ground on October 30 
18 Xiphorhynchus flavigaster ultimus Bangs and Griscom, Proc. New England Zod]. Club, vol. 13, Nov. 7, 
1932, p. 48 (Ojo Ancho, Nicoya, Costa Rica). 
