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BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
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Antioquía, Colombia). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 75, part (Panamá; monogr.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 304, part (Panamá and Cliepo, Panamá). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 234, part (Lion Hill, Obispo, and Paraiso stations, and Chepo, Panamá; Colombia?).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., xvi, 1893, 679, part (monogr.). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xiv, 1899, no. 339, 7 (Laguna del Pita, Panamá). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, lM (Loma del Leon, Panamá).

[Formicarius] hoffmanni Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 75, part (Panamá). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 39, part (Panamá; Colombia?).
Formicarius moniliger panamensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol., Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 20, 1908, 195 (Lion Hill station, Panamá; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).

FORMICARIUS RUFIPECTUS Salvin.

RUFOUS-BREASTED ANTTHRUSH.

Adult male.[1] — Pileum and hindneck dark chestnut, the feathers dull black beneath the surface (partly exposed on crown); rest of upper parts dark olive or olive-sepia, passing into deep reddish chestnut or bay on upper tail-coverts; tail dull black, the rectrices edged (especially toward base) with olive-brown; remiges, primary coverts, and alula dark sooty brown; loral, orbital, auricular, suborbital and malar regions, chin, and throat uniform black; whole chest uniform chestnut, passing into tawny-chestnut on breast, this into tawny on abdomen, the chestnut of chest extended laterally as a narrow band behind auricular region to merge into the dark chestnut of hindneck; sides and flanks olive, indistinctly streaked on inner portion with dull tawny or tawny-chestnut; under tail-coverts bright chestnut; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn color; length (skin), 182; wing, 90; tail, 56; culmen, 21; tarsus, 38.5; middle toe, 23.[2]

Adult female.[3] — Similar to the adult male, as described above, but color of back, etc., less olivaceous (more slaty) sides and flanks dull slate color or dark mouse gray instead of olive, and chestnut of chest lighter (tawny-chestnut), passing through tawny or tawny-olivaceous on lower breast into deep buff or clay color on abdomen; under tail-coverts also lighter chestnut; length (skin), 163.5; wing, 88.5; tan, 56.5; culmen, 23.5; tarsus, 38; middle toe, 23.

Western Panamá (Santiago de Verágua); Costa Rica (Juan Viñas);

northwestern Colombia (San Antonio)?


  1. Description from no. 28,203, Carnegie Museum; Juan Viñas, Costa Rica (Atlantic slope), May 7, 1907; M. A. Carriker, jr. (Type of Formicarius castaneiceps Carriker.)
  2. One specimen (type of F. castaneiceps Carriker).
  3. north-western Colombia; Nov. 8, 1907; Mervyn G. Palmer. (Possibly representing a distinct subspecies).