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 chestnut; 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).[1]
Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Córdova; Jalapa; Coátepec; Uvero).
- Anabates rubiginosus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 288 (Córdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 555 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz, up to 1,300 m.). — Sanchez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mexico, i, 1877, 97 (Vera Cruz).
- Automolus rubiginosus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 157 (Córdova); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 91, part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 155 (Córdova, Jalapa, Coátepec, and Uvero, Vera Cruz). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 32 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).
- [Automolus] rubiginosus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 65, part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.
- [Philydor] rubiginosus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 172, no. 2323.
AUTOMOLUS VERÆPACIS VERÆPACIS 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.
