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BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
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brown passing; into chestnut on malar region, the auricular region tinged with grayish and with indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; chin, throat, and chest deep tawny-ochraceous; rest of under parts light tawny-ochraceous medially, passing into tawny-brown or tawny- olive on sides and Hanks and into light chestnut or deep cinnamon- rufous on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts uniform tawny- ochraceous, the inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pinkish tawny-ochraceous or yellowish vinaceous-cinnamon; maxilla dark horn brown, becoming paler toward tomia; mandible light horn brown, the under portion (broadly) pale dull yellowish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).

Adults. — Length (skin), 215;[1] wing, 91-93 (92); tail, 82-86 (84.5); culmen, 24-25 (24.7); tarsus, 26-27.5 (27); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21.2).[2]

Highlands of central Guatemala (Cobán, Vera Paz).

Anabates rubiginosus (not of Sclater) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 5, 117 (Guatemala).
Automolus rubiginosus (not of Sclater, 1862) Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 337. — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91 (Cobán, Vera Paz, Guatemala).
[Automolus] rubiginosus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 65, part (Guatemala).
Automolus veræpacis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, July, 1891, 156 (Cobán, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman).
[Automolus] veræpacis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.

AUTOMOLUS VERÆPACIS UMBRINUS (Salvin and Godman).

TAWNY AUTOMOLUS.

Similar to A. v. veræpacis but coloration lighter throughout, the throat and chest ochraceous instead of tawny-ochraceous.

Adult female. — Length (skin), 207; wing, 89; tail, 88; culmen, 24.5; tarsus, 27.5; middle toe, 21.5.[3]

Highlands of western Guatemala (Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango; Barranca Honda, Volcán de Fuego).

Automolus rubiginosus (not Anabates rubiginosus Sclater) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 91, part (Savana Grande, Barranca Honda, Volcan de Agua, and Volcan de Fuego, Pacific side, Guatemala).
Automolus umbrinus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, July, 1891, 157 (Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango, Pacific side, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman).
[Automolus] umbrinus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.

  1. One specimen.
  2. Four specimens, with sex undetermined.
  3. One specimen, the only one of the form seen by me.