Vol. 35, pp. 223-224 October 17, 1922 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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THE IDENTITY OF ATTILA FLAMMULATUS .;j* ) 



LAFRESNAYE. ^^ — 



BY OUTRAM BANGS AND THOMAS E. PENARD. 



Having examined the type of Attila flammulatus Lafresnaye 

 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, we estabUsh its status 

 as follows: 



Attila flammulatus flammulatus Lafresnaye. 



Attila flammulatus Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1848, p. 47 ("Colombia" — we 

 substitute Vera Cruz, Mexico; type, Lafr. coll. 4,526 [Verreaux Cata- 

 logue], now Mus. Comp. Zool., 76, 375). 



Attila citreopyga salvini Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (Pasa Nueva, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Measurements (in millimeters). — Type (M. C. Z., 76,375): wing, 94.0; 

 tail, 79.0; tarsus, 28.5; exposed culmen, 26.5. Topotype of A. c salvini 

 (M. C. Z., 102,465, o", Pasa Nueva, Vera Cruz, Mexico): wing, 94.0; tail, 

 77.0; tarsus, 28.5; exposed culmen, 26.0. 



Range. — Vera Cruz and Pueblo, Mexico, south to Hondiu-as. 



Remarks. — The large size of Lafresnaye's specimen, the dark back, 

 heavily streaked pileum, hindneck and sides, without any olivaceous shade, 

 tlie orange-ochraceous rump and sides, the grayish throat and chest, very 

 distinctly streaked — all agree with only the northern form named salvini by 

 Ridgway and certainly not with A. citreopygus (Bonaparte), the recorded 

 range of which has recently been extended to western Colombia by Chap- 

 man (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 495). Compared with 

 topotypical specimens oi salvini, the type of Lafresnaye's Attila flammulatus 

 is found to be identical in all respects except that it has faded a little. 



Sclater (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1888, p. 358, footnote) states 

 that Attila flammulatus Lafr. was unknown to him and hence he was unable 

 to place it. Brabourne and Chubb (The Birds of So. Am., I, 1912, p. 319), 

 however, include it in their list and give its range as "Colombia, " no doubt 

 on Lafresnaye's authority. But the locality Colombia is evidently an error 

 as we have found to be the case with many other localities cited by Lafres- 

 naye in his original descriptions. 



Lafresnaye's designation of Attila flammulatus being the earliest for the 

 species, the forms will stand as follows : 



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