220 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



AUTOMOLUS PALLIDIGULARIS PALLIDIGULARIS Lawrence. 



PALE-THKOATED AUTOMOLUS. 



Somewhat like A. cervinigularis but superciliary stripe much less 

 distinct (the supra-auricular portion more or less obsolete), {^eneral 

 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 poste- 

 rior 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 veiy different 

 and feathers of lower throat narrowly margined terminally with 

 dusky. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skin), 188; wing, 85.5; tail, 70.5; tarsus, 

 21; middle toe, 19.« 



Adult female. —'LervgiXx (skin), 176.5; wing, 87; tail, 75; culmen, 

 22; tarsus, 22.5; middle toe, 1G.5.« 



Eastern Panama (Panama; Lion Hill); Colombia (Remedios, 

 Antioquia) ? ^ Ecuador ? ^ 



Anabates cervinigularis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 294 



(Lion Hill Station, Panama). 

 Anabates ochrolsemus (not of Tschudi) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 



319 (Lion Hill). 

 Automolus pallidigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 465 

 (Lion Hill Station, Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence).— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 354 (Lion Hill; crit.); (?) 1879, 522 (Remedioa, 

 Antioquia, Colombia).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 94, part 

 (Panamd; Remedios, Colombia?).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1891, 159, part (Lion Hill, Panamd; Colombia?).— Bangs, Proc. 

 New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del Le6n, Panamd). 



o One specimen. 



b I have seen specimens from Panamd (Lion Hill) only. 



