grayish brown; supra-auricular region streaked or spotted with black and pale buff or buffy whitish; under parts buff, paler on throat and abdomen, more grayish or olivaceous on sides and flanks, the chest and throat (especially the former) narrowly streaked with black; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 103-107 (105); wing, 56.5-59 (57.7); tail, 36.5-40 (38.2); culmen, 15-17 (16); tarsus, 20-20.5 (20.2); middle toe, 12.5-13 (12.7).[1]
Costa Rica (San José; Pacuare; Rio Sícsola) and western Panamá (Santiago de Verágua).
- Dysithamnus puncticeps Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 72 (Santiago de Verágua, Panamá; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 144 (Santiago de Verágua). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 115 (Pacuare, Costa Rica). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 223 (Verágua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 207, pl. 50, figs. 2, 3. — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 599 (in key; considered extralimital to Costa Rica?).
- [Dysithamnus] puncticeps Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 71. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 19.
DYSITHAMNUS STRIATICEPS Lawrence.
STREAKED-CROWNED ANTVIREO.
Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck slate-gray, broadly streaked with black, the streaks becoming obsolete on hindneck; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain olive or grayish olive, the upper back sometimes inclining to slate-gray; tail russet-olive or olive-brown; lesser wing-coverts black, spotted with white, those along edge of wing mostly or wholly white; middle coverts black, tipped with a roundish spot of white or brownish white; greater coverts olive (darker on concealed portions), their outer webs tipped with brownish white (forming a narrow band across closed wing); remiges olive, with underlying portion dusky, paler on edge of primaries; alula black, the outermost feathers broadly edged with white; auricular region and sides of neck slate-gray, the former very indistinctly flecked with dusky; suborbital and malar regions paler gray, barred or flecked with dusky; chin, throat, and chest white, broadly streaked with slate-gray and with narrow blackish shaft- streaks; sides and flanks olive, more or less strongly suffused with buff; breast and abdomen white, or buffy white, passing into buff (more or less deep) on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts mostly dull white; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with white; maxilla brownish black, mandible dull whitish (pale bluish gray, bluish horn color, or straw yellow in life);[2] iris brown, gray, grayish white, or bluish white;[2] legs and feet dusky or horn color (bluish gray or grayish blue in life);[2] length (skins), 94-112 (102); wing, 56.5-61 (59.2); tail, 31.5-35 (32.7); culmen, 15.5-17 (16.1); tarsus, 19-20.5 (19.8); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.8).[3]
