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The indications are that A. rufipectus rufipcctus takes the place of 

 A. parvirostris in the Subtropical Zone of the Santa Marta region. 



281. Attila idiotes Todd. 



Attila idiotes Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIX, 1916, 96 (Fundacion; 

 orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinar Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. 

 ■ Xat. Inst. La Salle, IV, 1916, 117 (reprint orig. descr.). 



One specimen : Fundacion. 



Description. — Adult male: pileum and hindneck dark citrine, the 

 former with narrow dusky shaft-streaks; back and scapulars Dresden 

 brown, passing into yellow ocher on the rump and into primuline yel- 

 low on the upper tail-coverts ; tail antique brown, deepening into raw 

 umber terminally; wings dusky, the primaries very narrowly and in- 

 distinctly margined externally with grayish, the secondaries broadly 

 edged externally with dull antique brown, and the lesser wing-coverts, 

 with the tips and outer margins of the median and greater series, also 

 of this color ; inner webs of all the remiges margined with pale buffy 

 white towards their bases; sides of the head and neck dark citrine, 

 with an indistinct superciliary stripe of Martius yellow ; chin, throat, 

 and malar region pale lemon yellow, flammulated with dusky warbler 

 green ; breast similar but duller, with the streaking broader and less 

 distinct; abdomen white, the sides, and particularly the flanks, washed 

 with yellow ocher ; crissum white, tinged with pale buffy yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts buffy yellow; "iris reddish brown; feet plumbeous; bill 

 dark horn-color apically, flesh-color basally." Wing, 89; tail, 72; bill, 

 20; tarsus, 22. 



Unfortunately only a single specimen was secured, but this cannot 

 be referred to any known species, and it has become necessary to de- 

 scribe it as new. It seems to be most nearly related, however, to A. 

 citreopygus citreopygus, . from which it differs in its smaller bill, 

 brighter coloration, with greenish yellow (instead of grayish white) 

 chin and sides of head, paler brown back, and more restricted yellow 

 rump-patch. In none of these characters is it approached by any in- 

 dividuals in the series of citreopygus examined, variable though they 

 are in many respects, and we are therefore apparently justified in con- 

 sidering it to represent a new and distinct species. 



The single individual secured was taken at Fundacion on October 

 19, 191 5, beside a faint trail leading through the open forest near the 





