hair brown), ill strong contrast with general coloration of upper and under parts; a conspicuous supra-auricular (postocular) streak of tawny-ochraceous; lores pale grayish or dull grayish white flecked with dusky; under parts plain dull tawny-ochraceous or raw-sienna, paler on chin and throat (where feathers are whitish sub-basally), deeper laterally, passing into more grayish brown on thighs and cinnamon-rufous or rufous-tawny on under tail-coverts; under wing- coverts ochraceous-buffy, the inner webs of remiges broadly edged with dull white or buffy white; maxilla horn color, darker on culmen; mandible horn colorwith gonys (broadly) whitish (in dried skins); iris dark brown;[1] legs and feet light yellowish horn color (in dried skin).
Adult male. — Length (skin), 151.5; wing, 90; tail, 69.5; culmen, 18.5; tarsus, 20; middle toe, 14.5.[2]
Panamá (Santiago de Verágua; Cascajál, Coclé).
- Philydor fuscipennis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 72 (Santiago de Verágua, Panamá; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1867, 143 (Santiago de Verágua). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 99. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 161, pl. 46, fig. 1.
- [Philydor] fuscipennis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 172, no. 2310. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 66. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 68.
Genus XENICOPSIS Cabanis.
- Syndactyla (not Syndactylus Boitard, 1842) Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., 1853, 171. (Type, Xenops rufo-superciliatus Lafresnaye.)
- Xenicopsis[3] Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Aug., 1859, 32. (Type, Xenops rufo-superciliatus Lafresnaye.)
Medium sized Furnariidæ (length about 145-190 mm.) with small, roundish, non-operculate nostrils, culmen (from base) shorter than tarsus, and basal phalanx of middle toe not wholly united to lateral toes.
Bill much shorter than head, relatively rather deep and compressed, its width at loral antiæ much less than its depth at same point and equal to one-third to much more than one-third the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; culmen (from base) shorter (usually much shorter) than tarsus, broadly and rather indistinctly ridged, nearly straight for basal half (more or less), more or less strongly decurved terminally, the tip of maxilla slightly uncinate or sub-uncinate; maxillary tomium straight or very nearly so to near tip, where more or less (for a very short distance) decurved, without trace of subterminal
notch; mandibular tomium straight or slightly convex (the
