214 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AUTOMOLUS RUBIGINOSUS (Sclater). 



RUDDY AUTOMOLXJS. 



Adults (sexes alike) .—Piieum. and hindneck uniform dark chestnut- 

 brown or Vandyke brown; back, scapulars, and rump plain deep 

 tawny-brown or mummy brown, the wings similar bvit more rufescent 

 (nearly burnt umber) ; upper tail-coverts rufous-chestnut, tail chest- 

 nut; sides of head chestnut or brownish chestnut, the auricular 

 region more grayish; chin, throat, and chest deep cinnamon-rufous; 

 rest of under parts cinnamon-tawny or dull tawny-ochraceous 

 medially, passing into deep raw-umber or light mummy brown on 

 sides and flanks and into light chestnut or cinnamon-rufous on under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts uniform cinnamon-rufous, the inner 

 webs of remiges broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon; maxilla 

 brown, darker toward culmen; maxilla pale dull yellowish (in dried 

 skins) with a stripe of pale brown along upper portion; legs and feet 

 light horn color (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 199-225 (212); wing, 95.5-97.5 

 (96.5); tail, 90.5; culmen, 23-23.5 (23.2); tarsus, 26-27 (26.5); 

 middle toe, 20.5-21 (20.7).« 



Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Coatepec; Uvero). 



Anabates rubiginosus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 

 288 (C6rdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz). — SuMicHRAST, Mem; Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 555 (tierra caliente of 

 Vera Cruz, up to 1,300 m.).— Sanchez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mexico, i, 1877, 97 

 (Vera Cruz). 



Automolus rubiginosus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 157 ((!'6rdova); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 91, part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 155 (C6rdova, Jalapa, Codtepec, and Uvero, Vera Cruz). — 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 32 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



[Automolus] rubiginosus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 65, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66. 



[Philydor] rubiginosus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 172, no. 2323. 



AUTOMOLUS VERffiPACIS VERiEPACIS Salvin and Godman. 



VERA PAZ AUTOMOLTTS. 



Similar to A. rubiginosus in coloration of upper parts, but under 

 parts much paler, the chin, throat, and chest tawny-ochraceous 

 instead of deep cinnamon-rufous ; wing shorter, bill longer. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Piieum and hindneck dark chestnut-brown, 

 sometimes a little lighter or brighter on forehead; back, scapulars, 

 and rump tawny-brown or mummy brown, the wrings more rufescent 

 brown (between russet and burnt umber); upper tail-coverts and 

 tail clear chestnut or rufous-chestnut; sides of head deep chestnut- 



o Two specimens. 



