ATLAPETES. 471 



Genus ATLAPETES Wagl. 

 Atlapetes Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 526. Type A. pileatus Wagi. 



Fig. 179. — Ailapetes i^ersonatus. 



This genus is distinguished chiefly by the short wings and long 

 tail. The bill is pointed and somewhat compressed, the depth and 

 width at the base are equal and about two-thirds the length of the 

 exposed culnien. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth primaries longest and subequal, the second about equal in 

 length to the eighth, and the first about four-tenths shorter than the 

 second. The tail is rounded at the tip, the middle feathers being 

 nearly one-fourth longer than the outermost. The tarsus is about 

 twice as long as the exposed culnien and about one-fourth longer 

 than the middle toe and claw. Coloration : male and female 

 similar. 



64G. Atlapetes personatus. 

 Rufous-headed Spakrow. 



Arremon personatus Cab. in Schomb. Keis Guian. iii. p. 078, 1848. 

 Huarremon personatus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Rorairaa, 4000- 



GOOO ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xi. p. 270, 188(> (Koraima). 

 Atlapetes personatus Brabourno & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 389, 



no. 4000, 1912 



Adult, Crown of head, nape, sides of face, sides of nech, and 

 chin rufous; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts and upper wing- 

 coverts slaty-black with a greenish tinge ; flight-quills blackish 

 with isabelline margins on the inner webs, the outer \veb of the 

 first primary inclining to white; tail also blackish ; throat, reast, 

 abilomen, and under tail-coverts yellow more or less intermixed 

 with olive-groen ; sides of the body and thighs dusky olivergreen ; 

 under wing-coverts cream-white like the inner edges of the quills 

 below; marginal-coverts and greater series much darker and 

 inclining to blackish ; under surface of quills and lower as[)oct of 

 tail blackish brown. 



