Adult female. — Length (skins), 113-134 (123); wing, 77-82 (70.6); tail, 27-35 (29); culmen, 18-20 (10.2); tarsus, 35-38.5 (36.2); middle toe. 16.5-18 (17.2).[1]
Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Angostura; Talamanca; Santa Clara; Jiménez; San Carlos; La Balsa; El Hogár; Guápiles; Cuábre; Guácimo; Volcán de Turrialba; La Florída; La Cristina; La Vijágua) and Nicaragua (San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua).
- Grallaria perspicillata (not of Lawrence, 1861) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 110 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 325, part (syn. part; " Valza," i. e., La Balsa, Costa Rica).
- [Grallaria] perspicillata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 76, part (Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44, part (Costa Rica).
- G[rallaria] intermedia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, no. 26, April 11, 1884, 406, footnote (Talamanca, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).
- Grallaria intermedia Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 115, part (Jiménez, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 534 (Jiménez; crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 243 (Angostura, La Balsa, Talamanca, Jiménez, and San Carlos, Costa Rica).
- [Grallaria] intermedia Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 44.
- Hylopezus intermedius Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 629 (Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica up to 800 or 900 ft.; crit.; habits).
Family FURNARIIDÆ.
THE OVEN BIRDS.
Tracheoplione Mesomyodian Passeres, with the metasternum 2-notched, interorbital septum perforate, maxillo-palatines very long and slender (and continued backward to or beyond the level of the free end of the median descending plate of the palatine), tensor patagii brevis tendon normally passerine, nares schizorhinal, syrinx tracheal (with two pairs of short tracheo-bronchial muscles), palate schizognathous, mesorhinium normal, tarsal envelope endaspidean, outer toe much shorter than middle toe, hallux (without claw) not shorter than inner toe (without claw), and middle toe united to outer toe by less than the whole of its second phalanx (usually for more or less of first phalanx only).
- > Anabatidæ Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 230, 338 (includes Dendrocolaptidæ). — Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1860, 22. — Carus, Handb. ZooL, 1868, 266.
- = Anabatidæ Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 210. — Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 471, in text.
- = Anabatinæ Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 338.
- < Furnariinæ Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv für Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 339. — Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1872, 55 (English translation, 1889, 121).— Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 452.
- ↑ Ten specimens.
