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olive-buff) posteriorly, the sides and flanks darker and more grayish 
(approaching light hair brown); under wing-coverts and broad edgings 
to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla dusky, with 
paler tomia; mandible pale yellowish grayish (in dried skins); feet 
dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 136.5-142 (139); wing, 
65-67 (66); tail, 53.5-62.5 (58); column, 18.5-19.5 (19); tarsus, 
21-21.5 (21.2); middle toe, 12-12.5 (12.2).¢ 
Adult female.—Similar to the adult male but without the concealed 
dorsal patch of cinnamon-rufous or ochraceous-buff, the underlying 
portion of the interscapulars being pale gray with whitish shaft- 
streaks; length (skins), 129.5-145 (138); wing, 66-67 (66.5); tail, 
54-56 (55.2); culmen, 18-20 (19.2); tarsus, 19.5-20.5 (19.9); middle 
toe, 12-12.5 (12.1).® 
Southeastern Mexico, in State of Tabasco (Teapa); Guatemala 
(Choctim; Cajabén; Samayoa; Teleman); British Honduras (Toledo 
District). 
Thamnistes anabatinus ScLateR and Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 299 
(Chocttim, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater)—Sanvin and Scuater, 
Ibis, 1860, 399 (Chocttim).—Sciater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 176 (Choctum 
and Cajabén, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 216, part (Choc- 
tum, Cajabén, and Samayoa, Guatemala).—Saivin and Gopman, Biol. 
Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 205, part, pl. 50, fig. 1 (Telema4n, etc., Guatemala). 
[Thamnistes] anabatinus SctateR and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70, part.— 
SHarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 17, part. 
Thamnistes anabatinus anabatinus Ripaway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 20, 
1908, 193, in text. 
THAMNISTES ANABATINUS SATURATUS Ridgway. 
RUSSET ANTSHRIKE. 
Similar to T. a. anabatinus but coloration much darker and less 
ochraceous (more olivaceous) above, the pileum more or less dis- 
tinctly rufescent (sometimes deep russet or mars brown); wings much 
less rufescent, especially the secondaries; size averaging smaller. 
@ Two specimens. 
6 Four specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. — Tarsus. pee 
MALES. 
One adult male from Guatemala...........-.--.0-..22--20-eee- 67 62.5 18.5 21.5 12 
One adult male from Tabasco (Teapa).........-------.-------- 65 53.5 19.5 21 12.5 
FEMALES. 
Two adult females from British Honduras (Toledo District)... 66 55 19 19.7 12.2 
One adult female from Guatemala..............2. 022 e eee ne eee 67 55 18 19.5 12 
One adult female from Tabasco (Teapa)..........------sssee0- 66 56 20 20.5 12 
