BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 811 



Attila cilreopygia (not Dmycephala ntreopyga Bonaparte) Nutting, Proc. IT. S. Nat. 



Mus., vi, 1883, 385 (Sucuya, Nicaragua). 

 Attila dtreopygius Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Aves, ii, 1889, 133, part 



(Sucuya, Nicaragua). 

 [Attila] dtreopygius Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 168, part. 

 C^) Attila sdatcri (not of Lawrence ?) Underwood, Ibis, 1890, 439 (Volcan de Mira- 



valles, CovSta Rica). 

 Attila ntreopyga luteola Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1900, 119 {San 



Jose, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



ATTILA CITREOPYGUS GAUMERI (Salvin and Godman). 

 GAUMER'S ATTILA. 



Somewhat like A. c. salvini, but decidedly smaller, with relatively 

 larger bill; brown of upper parts paler and duller (less rufescent) ; 

 ochraceous of rump and upper tail-coverts paler, and chest more or 

 less strongly suffused with gray (sometimes nearly uniform gray), 

 very slightly if at all streaked. 



Adult male. — Forehead mixed wliitish and black, the latter pre- 

 vailing medially; rest of pileum brownish mouse gray, heavily 

 streaked with black; hindneck, sides of neck, and upper back plain 

 light buffy brown (between wood brown and raw-umber), deepening 

 gradually on scapulars and lower back into raw-umber brown; upper 

 rump bright olive-tawny (raw-sienna), the extreme lower portion of 

 back strongly tinged with the same ; rest of rump clear oclier yellow, 

 the upper tail-coverts similar but slightly paler; tail light buffy brown 

 (nearly wood brown), becoming more grayish (broccoli) brown termi- 

 nally, the shafts of rectrices cinnamon; wings dusky gra\dsh brown, 

 the middle and greater coverts tipped with light cinnamon or wood 

 brown, the innermost secondaries buft'y brown (between broccoli and 

 wood brown), the other remiges edged with light grayish brown; cliin 

 and most of throat wliite, the middle throat broadl}^ streaked ^^•ith 

 dusky, the lower throat broadly streaked with smoke gray and wliite 

 or yellowish white ; chest plain pale yellowish gray laterally, broadly 

 but indistinctly streaked with the same and yellowish white medially; 

 sides, flanks, axillars, and under wing-coverts yellowish buff" or buff- 

 yellow; rest of under parts white, the breast faintly streaked with 

 gray, the anterior under tail-coverts pale (primrose) yellow; bill 

 horn color, more dusky on subterminal portion of maxilla, the tip of 

 the latter (unguis) whitish; legs and feet grayish dusk}^ (bluish gray 

 in hfe?); length (skin), 192; wing, 89.5; tail, 71.5; exposed culmen, 

 25.5; tarsus, 26; middle toe, 16.5." 



Adult female. — Similar to the male (perhaps not always distinguish- 

 able), but usually (?) with chest deeper and jnore uniform grayish or 

 with distinct streaks of light brownish gray inclosing a dusky shaft- 

 line; length (skins), 179-184 (182); wing, 81.5-85.5 (83.5); tail, 66.5- 



a One specimen, from Puerto Morelos. 



