claws rather large, strongly curved, that of the hallux shorter than the digit.
Coloration. — Olive-brown (paler below), the upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut; pileum, hindneck, and back more dusky, narrowly streaked with paler; chin and throat buff, the chest indistinctly streaked or flammulated with the same.
Range. — Costa Rica and western Panamá. (Monotypic.)
HYLOCTISTES VIRGATUS (Lawrence).
STRIPED HYLOCTISTES.
Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dark sooty brown or brownish black, broadly streaked with pale olive, each feather with a narrow shaft-streak of pale buffy; back and scapulars olive-brown, sometimes suffused with dusky, usually narrowly streaked (at least on upper back) with pale buffy; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut; wings chestnut-brown, usually lighter and more rufescent on basal portion of primaries; sides of head rather broadly streaked with dull grayish buff and dusky; chin and throat buff, the feathers usually edged or margined (more or less distinctly) with olive or dusky, at least on lower throat; rest of under parts light buffy olive, passing into a more rufescent hue on under tail-coverts, the chest, upper breast, and sides (especially the first) more or less distinctly streaked with paler (dull buffy); under wing-coverts and broad edging to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla dark horn color (sometimes nearly black on culmen), mandible paler, especially on under side; iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).
Adult male. — Length (skins), 158-188 (165); wing, 79.5-86.5 (83.5); tail, 65-70 (67.7); culmen, 22-24.5 (23.4); tarsus, 19-21 (20.1); middle toe, 15.5-16.5 (15.9).[1]
Adult female. — Length, (skins), 152-190 (170); whig, 79-85.5 (82); tail, 63-73 (69.2); culmen, 21-24.5 (23.2); tarsus, 19.5-21.5 (20.5); middle toe, 15-16.5 (15.7).[2]
Costa Rica (Angostura; San Carlos; Jiménez; Carrillo; El Hogár; La Cristina; Pozo del Rio Grande; Pozo del Pitál; El Pozo de Térraba; Palmár; Boruca; La Vijágua) and Panamá (Natá, Coclé).
- Philydor virgatus Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, May, 1867, 468 (Angostura, Costa Rica; colL U. S. Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868, 106 (Angostura). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 304 (Costa Rica). — Berlepsch, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, 565 (crit.). — Sclater , Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 96,
