Panamá (Boquete, Chiriquí; Capira); Nicaragua?; State of Antioquía, Colombia (Medellín; Frontino)?
- (?) Dendrocops multistrigatus (not Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus Eyton) Bonaparte, Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1S54, 87 (Nicaragua).
- Dendrocolaptes multistrigatus (not of Eyton) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 106, 146 (Navarro, Costa Rica; crit.). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 305 (Navarro).
- Dendrocolaptes puncticollis (not of Sclater and Salvin) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 146 (Navarro). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 60 (Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Rica; habits). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 113 (Cartago, Costa Rica). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1889, 545 (Navarro; crit.). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 48 (Boquete, 7,000 ft., Panamá).
- Dendrocolaptes validus (not of Tschudi) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 172, part (Panamá; Medellín and Frontino, prov. Antioquía, Colombia?). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 191, part (Navarro and Naranjo, Costa Rica; Panamá; Colombia?).
- [Dendrocolaptes] validus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 87, part (Costa Rica; Panamá).
- Dendrocolaptes validus costaricensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash., xxii, April 17, 1909, 73 (Laguária, Santa Maria de Dota, s. w. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 658 (Costa Rica; crit.).
Genus XIPHOCOLAPTES Lesson.
- Xiphocolaptes Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1840, 269. (Type, Dendrocopus albicollis Vieillot.)
Very large Dendrocolaptidæ (length about 280-320 mm.) with bill longer than head, stout, more or less (but never strongly) decurved, and compressed (much deeper than broad at nostrils).
Bill longer than head (commissure nearly twice as long as tarsus), slightly decurved, much compressed, its depth at nostril much greater than its width at same point; culmen scarcely ridged, gradually decurved from base, the tip of maxilla not uncinate; tomia gradually decurved, without trace of subterminal notch; gonys straight or (sometimes) slightly decurved terminally, slightly prominent and convex basally, where there is a more or less distinct narrow median ridge on under side. Nostril exposed, posteriorly in contact with latero-frontal feathers or nearly so, obliquely oval, non-operculate. Rictal bristles absent; feathers of chin and loral region with open or semi-decomposed webs. Wing rather large and pointed, with longest primaries exceeding secondaries by less than length of bill from nostril; sixth, seventh, and eighth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, or sixth and seventh, primaries longest, the tenth (outermost) a little more than two-thirds as long as the longest, the ninth longer than fourth. Tail about six-sevenths as long as Wing, graduated for more than one-third its length, the rectrices (12) acuminate, with the excessively strong and rigid shafts decurved and twisted terminally. Tarsus about as long as bill from nostril;
