ATTILA. 289 



last baffy-white ; lower back inclining to chestnut ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts lemon -yellow; a supraloral streak, which is 

 continued over to behind the eye, and eyelids yellowish white ; 

 throat, breast, sides of neck, and sides of breast yellowish green, 

 with pale margins to the feathers on the middle of the throat and 

 middle of the breast ; the feathers on the upper abdomen inclining 

 to slate-grey ; lower abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 dull white more or less tinged with yellow ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts and inner margins of quills below buff. Wing 80 mm. 



The female described was collected at Bartica Grove in 1911. 



Immature m,ale. Differs from the adult male in its shorter bill 

 and in having the axillaries and under wing-coverts white. It 

 also differs in having the top of the head, hind-neck, and back 

 dark coffee-brown, not grey, and the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 buff instead of lemon-yellow. 



The immature male described was collected on the Supenaam 

 River in 1910. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Uudescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam 

 River, Bartica {^McConnell collection) ; Bartica ( Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



537, Attila tliamnophiloid.es. 



Spix's Attila. 



Muscicapa thamnophiloides Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 19, pi. 26, fig. 1, 1825 



(" in locis sylvaticus fl. Amazonum " ). 

 ■ Dasycephala thamnophiloides Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 686, 



1848. 

 Attila thamnophiloides Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 304 ; Solater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xiv. p. 364, 1888 (Demerara) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. i. p. 319, no. 3263, 1912. 



Adult female. General colour above and below cinnamon-rufous, 

 paler on the tail and inclining to yellowish buff on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts 

 dark brown, margined with rufous like the flight-quills ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; flight-quills dark 

 brown, with pale rufous margins to the inner webs ; under wing- 

 coverts pale cinnamon ; under surface of quills brown with pale 

 inner edges ; lower aspect of tail similar to that above but paler. 



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