black and, together with hindneck and upper back, marked with obsolete shaft-stripes of fawn color ["cervinis"]; beneath paler, all the feathers of throat to middle of breast whitish margined with fuscous, streaks on breast narrower, abdomen and crissum transversely barred with brownish black, under wing-coverts and inner webs of remiges cinnamon, the former variegated with fuscous, the latter with terminal portion fuscous; bill horn color, mandible paler, feet plumbeous. Total length 10.5 [inches = 266.5 mm.], wing 5.2 [132 mm.], tail 4.5 [114.5 mm.], bill to rictus 1.65 [42 mm.], tarsus 1.05 [26.5mm.].[1]
Both Sclater and Salvin and Godman compare this form with the South American D. picumnus, but the characters wherein it differs from the Costa Rican form of D. validus are not clear from either of the descriptions quoted or the context thereof. The form is probably a subspecies of D. validus.
Higlilands of Guatemala (Tactíc; San Gerónimo).
- Dendrocops multistrigatus (not Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus Eyton) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 275 (Tactíc and San Gerónimo, Guatemala; crit.).
- Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus (not of Eyton) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, p. 162, no. 995 (San Gerónimo).
- Dendrocolaptes puncticollis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1868, 54, pl. 5 (Tactíc and San Gerónimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman and coll. P. L. Sclater). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 171, excl. syn. part (Tactíc and San Gerónimo). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 190.
- [Dendrocolaptes] puncticollis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 176, no. 2378. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 67.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 87.
DENDROCOLAPTES VALIDUS COSTARICENSIS Ridgway.
COSTA RICAN WOODHEWER.
Similar to D. v. validus,[2] but chest less distinctly streaked or with streaks less regular (broken along edges by black dots or bars), and under parts much more extensively barred.
Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck dull grayish brown or sepia, with narrow mesial streaks of very pale brownish buffy or dull buffy whitish, the supra-auricular region, lower portion of auricular region, and sides of neck similar but with the streaks much broader, the upper portion of auricular region dark sooty brown or blackish with very narrow shaft-streaks of pale buffy or dull whitish; malar region with feathers dark sooty brown on margin, with a central ovate spot of pale brownish buffy; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts
plain olive-brown (between bister and raw-umber), the back usually
