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bro\\ai passino; 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-broAvn 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 sldns). 



Adults.— Length (skin), 215;" wing, 91-93 (92); tail, S2-S6 (84.5); 

 cuhnen, 24-25 (24.7); tarsus, 26-27.5 (27); middle toe, 20.5-22 

 (21.2).^ 



Highlands of central Guatemala (Coban, Vera Paz). 



Anahates 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. Biixls Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91 (Cobdn, Vera Paz, 



Guatemala). 

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



(Guatemala). 

 Automolus versepacis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, 



July, 1891, 156 (Cobdn, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman). 

 [Automolus] verxpacis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66. 



AUTOMOLUS VER.EPACIS UMBRINUS (Salvin and Godman). 



TAWNY AUTOMOLUS. 



Similar to A. v. verxpacis but coloration lighter throughout, the 

 throat and chest ochraceous instead of tawny-ochraceous. 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 207; wing, 89; tail, 88; culnien, 

 24.5; tarsus, 27.5; middle toe, 21.5.'^ 



Highlands of western Guatemala (Santa Maria, near Quezalte- 

 nango; Barranca Honda, Volcan de Fuego). 



Automolus rubiginosus (not Anabates rubiginosus Sclater) Sclater, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 91, part (Savana Grande, Barranca Ilonda, 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] umbrinxis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66. 



o One specimen. 



&Four specimens, with sex undetermined. 



c One specimen, the only one of the form seen by me. 



