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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

AUTOMOLUS PALLIDIGULARIS PALLIDIGULARIS Lawrence.

PALE-THROATED AUTOMOLUS.

Somewhat like A. cervinigularis but superciliary stripe much less distinct (the supra-auricular portion more or less obsolete), general coloration paler, feathers of chest without darker margins, and size smaller.

Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck sepia brown, paler on forehead, where the feathers have indistinct narrow mesial streaks or shaft-streaks of brownish buffy; back and scapulars plain deep olive- brown, passing into chestnut on lower rump, tail-coverts, and tail and into deep russet-brown or prouts brown on wings, this passing into dusky on tips of remiges and primary coverts; an indistinct narrow superciliary stripe of brownish buff, becoming obsolete above posterior portion of auricular region; auricular and suborbital regions sepia brown, with indistinct shaft-streaks of dull buffy; malar region, chin, and throat immaculate pale dull cream buff; rest of under parts light wood brown medially, passing laterally into tawny-olive or raw-umber on sides and flanks and into light chestnut or tawny on under tail-coverts, the chest with median portion of feathers pale cream buffy, producing an indistinctly flammulated effect; under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous- buff; maxilla horn color, the upper-basal portion dusky or blackish; mandible horn color with lower-basal portion dull whitish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).

Young. — Similar to adults but texture of plumage very different and feathers of lower throat narrowly margined terminally with dusky.

Adult male. — Length (skin), 188; wing, 85.5; tail, 70.5; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 19.[1]

Adult female. — Length (skin), 176.5; wing, 87; tail, 75; culmen, 22; tarsus, 22.5; middle toe, 16.5.[1]

Eastern Panamá (Panamá; Lion Hill); Colombia (Remédies, Antioquía)?[2] Ecuadór?[2]

Anabates cervinigularis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 294 (Lion Hill Station, Panamá).
Anabates ochrolæmus (not of Tschudi) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 319 (Lion Hill).
Automolus pallidigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 465 (Lion Hill Station, Panamá,; eoll. G. N. Lawrence). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 354 (Lion Hill; crit.); (?) 1879, 522 (Remédios, Antioquía, Colombia). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 94, part (Panamá; Remédios, Colombia?). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 159, part (Lion Hill, Panamá; Colombia?). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del León, Panamá).

  1. 1.0 1.1 One specimen.
  2. 2.0 2.1 I have seen specimens from Panamá (Lion Hill) only.