ATTILA. 285 



Key to the Species and Subspecies. 



A. Throat and breast rufous; abdomen [p. 2S5. 



buff y- white A. spadiceus spaiUceus, 



B. Throat and breast olive-brown streaked 



with yellow; abdomen pale cream- [p. 2S6. 



colour A. spailiceus uropygialis, 



C. Throat and breast grey streaked with [p. 288. 



white ; abdomen white A. spadiceus spodiosteth us. 



D. Throat, breast, and abdomen uniform 



cinnamon-rufous A. thamnophiloides.]). 289. 



534. Attila spadiceus spadiceus. 

 Cayenne Attila. 



TeUow-ritmped Flycatclier Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1. p. 3o4, 1783 



(Cayenne). 

 Muscicapa spadicea Gmel. Syst. Xat. i. p. 937, 17^9 (Cayenne). 

 Attila spadiceus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 362 (part), 1888 



(Cavenne) : Berlepsch. Xov. Zool. xv. p. 142. 1908 (Cayenne) ; 



Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 258, no. 32-53, 1912. 



Adult. Generiil colour o£ the upper surface chestnut-brown, 

 including the top of tlie hetid, sides of the face, hind-neck, sides 

 of neck, back, and tail; rump and upper tail-coverts orange- 

 yellow ; upper wing-coverts dark brown fringed with rufous ; 

 primary-coverts and flight-quills also dark brown, with chestnut- 

 brown margins to the outer webs of the secondaries and buffj- 

 Avhite fringes to the inner ones ; the forehead covered with 

 stiffened black bristles ; throat, breast, and sides of body paler than 

 the back, showing dark obsolete shaft-Hues to the feathers ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts cream-colour ; axiHaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner margins of flight-tjuills below cinnamon- 

 rufous, remainder o£ quills dark lu'own. 



Total length l.o8 nnn., exposed culmen 10, wing 80, tail G2, 

 tarsus 24. 



This description is taken from an example in the British 

 Museum, and is said to have come fr.-m Cayenne, whence Latham 

 obtained tlie bird which he described. 



? Inuiiature. Similar to the Cayenne bird described, but the 

 colours on the upper surface not so bright and the throat and 

 breast ochreous-brown with whitish fringes to the feathers ; 

 alxiomen silkv-white and the lower flanks and under tail-coverts 

 yollowish buft" ; axillarics and under wiiig-covcrts [lalo bufV. 



