'AUTOMOLUS. , 103 



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

 stoat, 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 

 middle ones longest, and their length about six-sevenths that of 

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

 and claw. Coloration : male and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Abdomen ochreous-brown; under tail-ooverts 



rufous. , 



a. Throat cream-colour ; no superciliary [p. 103. 



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



h. Throat white; a white superciliary line 



which extends behind the eye and along 



the sides of the crown A. albigularis, p. 104. 



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



416. Automolus turdinus macconnelli. 



McConnbll's AuTOMOLtrS. 



Philydor turdinus (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (Bartica 



Grove). 

 Automolus turdinus (nee Pelz.) Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 93, 



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



no. 2441, 1912. 

 Automolus turdinus maeeonnelli Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxiz. 



p. 60, 1919. 



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

 what darker than the back and squamated 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 sp&<..e 

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

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

 with pale shaft-lines to the feathers of the latter ; chin and upper 

 throat buffy-white followed by pale fawn-colour on the lower 

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

 ochreous brown j under tail-coverts rufous-chestnut ; under wing- 

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

 below pale brown ; lower aspect of tail rufous. 



