BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 8()V) 



[Attila] citreopygius Sclater and Salvin, Noin. Av. Neolr., 1873, 57, part. — 



Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 108, part (s. Mexico). 

 D[asycephala] citrinopycja Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, July, 1859, M 



(Jalapa). 

 [Dasycephala] eitrinopyga Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



127 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 [Attila] citnnopygus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 340, no. 5142. 

 (?) Attila hypoxanthus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 135, 



part (Vera Paz, Guatemala). 

 (?) [Attila] hypoxanthus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 169, part. 

 Attila citreopyga salrini Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 118 (Pasa, 



Nueva, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus). 



ATTILA CITREOPYGUS CINNAMOMEUS (Lawrence). 

 LAWRENCE S ATTILA. 



Similar to A. c. salvini, but much lighter and more cinnamomeous 

 brown (hindneck, back, and scapulars tawny brown or ochraceous- 

 ])rown, even the pileum sometimes cinnamomeous), the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ocliraceous (very rarely ocher-yellow), much less 

 strongly contrasted with color of back, etc.; tail wholly cinnamon or 

 dull tawny; under parts essentially as in ^4. c. salvini."- 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 194-209 (202); wing, 90.5-98.5 (95); 

 tail, 77-86.5 (80.6) ; exposed culmen, 23-25.5 (24.1) ; tarsus, 25-27 (26) ; 

 mid'dc toe, 16-18 (16.7).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 193-200 (196); vdng, 88.5-92 (90.5); 

 tail, 74.5-79.5 (76.2) ; exposed culmen, 23-24 (23.6) ; tarsus, 24-26.5 

 (25.6); middle toe, 15-17 (16.1).'^ 



Pacific slope of western and southwestern Mexico, in States of 

 Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Mount Lisiarraga, 5,500 feet.),*^ Jalisco (Beltran; 

 Hacienda de San Marcos; Tonila; San Sebastian), Colima (Santiago), 

 Guerrero (Omilteme;'^ Amula; Rincon; Egido Nuevo; Papayo; Aca- 



« As in both A. c. dtreopygus and A. c. salvini, the under parts are sometimes exten- 

 sively yellow; in fact, one of the original specimens collected by Grayson at Mazatlan 

 has no white whatever on the under surface, which is continuously clear canary 

 yellow, with, however, the usual dusky streaks on throat and chest and tawny-buff 

 sides. It is on this style of plumage, which is undoubtedly merely an individual 

 " xanthochroic " phase, that A. hypoxanthus Salvin and Godman was based. Were it 

 not that the specimen from Vera Paz described by Messrs. Salvin and Godman and 

 that from Venta del Pelegi-ino, Guerrero, are said by them to be ''practically insep- 

 arable," the name hypoxanthus (although based on a comparatively rare color-phase) 

 would be available for the form which I have named salvini; but in view of the state- 

 ment just quoted, and also the very strong probability that A. c. cinnan^omeus extends 

 along the Pacific coast even beyond Guatemala, I conclude that the Vera Paz speci- 

 men, although from outside the normal range of the form, and from a district which 

 should be inhabited by A. c. salvini, really belongs to the Pacific coast form. 



6 Ten specimens. 



c Four specimens. 



<^ These two specimens are much duller l)rown above (deep wood ]m)wn, in the one 

 from Omilteme, becoming almost hair brown on the pileum^ and have the sides 

 decidedly paler (cinnamon-but'fy). 



