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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

but with cinnamon-rufous area confined to inner web; three outer- most primaries with inner web wholly dusky, the outer web mostly dull cinnamon-rufous; a narrow but conspicuous superciliary streak of buffy white, indistinct anteriorly; lores mostly dull grayish or dusky; a broad postocular streak of brownish black or dark sooty brown; auricular region dusky, streaked with pale brownish buff or whitish, and bordered below by a conspicuous subauricular streak of white; chin and throat dull white or yellowish white, the lower throat sometimes streaked, more or less, with olive; rest of under parts light grayish brown (hair brown to light Isabella color), passing into a more rufescent or cinnamomeous hue posteriorly, streaked with dull white, the streaks broadest on chest; under wing-coverts deep ochraceous-buff; maxilla dusky horn color, paler on lower-basal portion; mandible dull pale yellowish or whitish (in dried skins), passing into dusky or horn color terminally; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky horn color (dark bluish gray in life).

Male. — Length (skins) 112-121 (115); wing, 63-71.5 (67.6); tail, 43.5-50 (47.9); culmen, 12-13 (12.6); tarsus, 14.5; middle toe, 13-14 (13.3).[1]

Costa Rica (Juan Viñas; Guayabo) and Panamá (Boquete, 4,500- 5,000 ft.; Volcán de Chiriquí), and southward through Colombia (San Antonio, Rio Call; Rio Chiquitos; Rio Lima; Bogotá; Cauta; Medellm, Antioquía; Los Tambos; Santa Elena and Las Nubes, Santa Marta) and Ecuadór (Guayaquíl; Macháy; Balzár Mountains; Sarayacu; Baeza; Vinces) to Peru (Chamicuros; Ropaybamba; Anquimarca; Tambillo; Guajango; Chirimoto; Cococho; Huambo; Nauta; Rio Ucayali; La Gloria; Borgona; Garita del Sol; Idma; Santa Ana).[2]

Xenops rutilans (not of Temminck) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 27 (Bogotá, Colombia; crit.).
Xenops rutilus (not of Lichtenstein) Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 331 (Cauta, Colombia). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 270 (Chamicuros, e. Peru;

  1. Four specimens.
    Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
    toe.
    males.
    Two adult males from western Panamá (Boquete, Chiriquí) 65.5 46.7 12.7 14.5 13
    Two adult males from northwestern Colombia (Rio Call and Rio Limón 69.7 49 12.5 14.5 13.7
    Eight adult males (X. r. rutilus) from southwestern Brazil (Chapada) 66.2 47.8 12.5 14 13.4
    females.
    One adult female from Trinidád 63 43 12 14 13
    Four adult females (X. r. rutilus) from Brazil (3 from Chapada) 65.2 46.1 12.2 14 13
  2. I have not seen specimens from Ecuadór or Peru.