288 BIRDS OF, BRITISH GUIANA. 



I suggest, therefore, that Lesson's naaie Attila brasiliensis, which 

 has priority over M. uropygiata Wied, be used for the Brazilian 

 bird, while I continue to use Attila uropygialis, which is without 

 doubt the correct name, for the British Guiana bird. 



536. Attila spadiceus spodiostetlius. 



Grey-breasted Attila. 



Attila spodiostefhus Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1883, p. 200 (Bartica 

 Grove); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 304 (Bartica Grove); Sclater, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 360, 1888. 



Attila brasiliensis (nee Less.) Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 818, 

 no. 3251 (part), 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, and hind-neck slate- 

 grey, with dark shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head ; 

 back, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts dark bronze-green ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts bright lemon-yellow; wings blackish, 

 with whitish outer margins to the median and greater upper wing- 

 coverts, becoming olive-grey on the outer edges of the primary and 

 secondary quills, which are margined with dull white on the 

 inner webs ; tail rufous-brown, becoming darker at the tip ; base 

 of forehead, lores, and eyelids greyish white, with short and 

 stiffened black bristles on the lores and base of forehead ; throat, 

 sides of neck, breast, and sides of breast slate-grey, with whitish 

 margins to the feathers, which increase in width towards the 

 abdomen and become uniform whitish on the lower flanks, vent, 

 and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts lemon- 

 yellow ; under surface of flight-quills dark brown with pale inner 

 edges ; lower aspect of tail cinnamon-rufous at the base, becoming 

 darker towards the tip. 



Total length 168 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 88, tail 63, 

 tarsus 24. 



The specimen described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 February 1907. 



Adult female. General colour above rust-brown, including the 

 crown of the head, sides of face, hind-neck, back, scapulars, lesser 

 upper wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and tail ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, median and greater upper wing-coverts, 

 and flight-quills black, with ferruginous margins to the median 

 and greater coverts and flight-quills, the inner edgings of the 



