214 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 
AUTOMOLUS RUBIGINOSUS (Sclater). 
RUDDY AUTOMOLUS. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck uniform dark chestnut- 
brown or vandyke brown; back, scapulars, and rump plain deep 
tawny-brown or mummy brown, the wings similar but more rufescent 
(nearly burnt umber); upper tail-coverts rufous-chestnut, tail chest- 
nut; sides of head chestnut or brownish chestnut, the auricular 
region more grayish; chin, throat, and chest deep cinnamon-rufous; 
rest of under parts cinnamon-tawny or dull tawny-ochraceous 
medially, passing into deep raw-umber or light mummy brown on 
sides and flanks and into light chestnut or cinnamon-rufous on under 
tail-coverts; under wing-coverts uniform cinnamon-rufous, the inner 
webs of remiges broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon; maxilla 
brown, darker toward culmen; maxilla pale dull yellowish (in dried 
skins) with a stripe of pale brown along upper portion; legs and feet 
light horn color (in dried skins). 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 199-225 (212); wing, 95.5-97.5 
(96.5); tail, 90.5; culmen, 23-23.5 (23.2); tarsus, 26-27 (26.5); 
middle toe, 20.5—21 (20.7).% 
Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Cérdova; Jalapa; 
Coatepec; Uvero). 
Anabates rubiginosus ScLaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 
288 (Cérdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera 
Cruz).—Sumicurast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 555 (tierra caliente of 
Vera Cruz, up to 1,300 m.).—Sancwez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mexico, i, 1877, 97 
(Vera Cruz). 
Automolus rubiginosus SctatEeR, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 157 (Cérdova); Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91, part (Mexico).—-Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.- 
Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 155 (Cérdova, Jalapa, Codtepec, and Uvero, Vera Cruz).— 
CHapMaN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 32 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 
[Automolus] rubiginosus ScLaTER and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 65, part.— 
SHarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66. 
[Philydor] rubiginosus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 172, no. 2323. 
AUTOMOLUS VERZPACIS VERZAPACIS Salvin and Godman. 
VERA PAZ AUTOMOLUS. 
Similar to A. rubiginosus in coloration of upper parts, but under 
parts much paler, the chin, throat, and chest tawny-ochraceous 
instead of deep cinnamon-rufous; wing shorter, bill longer. 
Adults (sexes alike) —Pileum and hindneck dark chestnut-brown, 
sometimes a little lighter or brighter on forehead; back, scapulars, 
and rump tawny-brown or mummy brown, the wings more rufescent 
brown (between russet and burnt umber); upper tail-coverts and 
tail clear chestnut or rufous-chestnut; sides of head deep chestnut- 
@ Two specimens. 
