AUTOMOLUS. 103 



Thrash-like in size and general appearance. The bill is somewhat 

 stout-, its depth, at the fore part of the nostrils^ is about one-third 

 the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rather pointed, 

 the third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and subequal, the 

 second is rather shorter than the sixth. The tail is somewhat 

 long and rounded at the tip, the feathers rather wide, the four 

 nn'ddle ones lono^est, and their length about six-sevenths that of 

 tlie wing. The tarsus is about equal in length to the middle toe 

 and claw\ Coloration : male and female similar. 



Keri to the Species. 



A. Abdomen ochreous-brown; under tail-coverts 



nifous. 

 o. Throat cream-colour ; no superciliarj [p. 103. 



line along sides of the crown A. t. macconnelli, 



b. Throat white ; a white superciliary line 



which extends behind the eye and along 



the sides eft the crown A. alhignlaris, p. 104. 



B. Abdomen and under tail-coverts grey A. cervicalis, p. 105. 



416. Automolus turdinus macconiielli. 

 McCoxxkll's Autojiolus. 



Fliihidor furJinus (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (Bartica 



Grove). 

 Autouwlus fi(rdh(us (nee Pelz.) Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 98, 



1890 (Bartica Grove) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 241, 



no. 2441, 1912. 

 AiitomoJus turdinus macconneUi Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxix. 



p. 60, 1919. 



Adult male. Head, back, and wings fawn-brown, head some- 

 what darker than the back and sqnamated in appearance ; 

 primary and secondary quills brown on the inner webs which 

 are edged with buff on the basal portion ; rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail rufous-chestnut ; the short feathers on the loral space 

 and ring round the eye pale fawn-colour, with black hair-like tips 

 to the featiiers ; upper cheeks and ear-coverts similar to the back, 

 with pale shaft-lines to the feathers of the latter ; chin and up|>er 

 throat huffy-white followed bv |)ale fawn-colour on the lower 

 cheeks an<l lower throat ; breast, abdomen, and sides of the body 

 ochreous bi-ov\n; iindfr tail-coverts rufous-chestnut ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner lining of (piills cinnamon-rufous ; tips of quills 

 below pale l)rown ; lower as[)ect of tail rufous. 



