ATTILA. 283 



Key to the Species and Subspecies, 



A. Throat and breast rufous; abdomen [p. 285. 



buffy-white A. spadieeus spadiceus, 



B. Throat and breast olive-brown streaked 



with yellow ; abdomen pale cream- [p. 286. 



colour A. spadiceus uropygialis, 



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



white ; abdomen white A. spadiceus spodiostethus, 



D. Throat, breast, and abdomen uniform 



cinnamon-rufous A. thamnophiloides, p. 289. 



534. Attila spadiceus spadiceus. 



Cayenne Attila. 



Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 354, 1783 



(Cayenne). 

 Muscicapa spadicea Grmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 937, 1789 (Cayenne). 

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



(Cayenne) ; Berlepsch, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 142, 1908 (Cayenne) ; 



Brabourne.& Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 258, no. 3253, 1912. 



Adult. General colour of the upper surface chestnut-brown, 

 including the top of the head, sides of the fiace, 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 bufFy- 

 white 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-lines to the feathers ; 

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

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

 rufous, remainder of quills dark brown. 



Total length 158 mm., exposed culmen 19, wing 80, tail &2y 

 tarsus 24. 



This description is taken from an example in the British 

 Museum, and is said to have come from Cayenne, whence Latham 

 obtained the bird which he described. 



"^Immature. 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 ; 

 abdomen silky-white and. the lower flanks and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish bufE ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale bufE. 



