brown passing; into chestnut on malar region, the auricular region tinged with grayish and with indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; chin, throat, and chest deep tawny-ochraceous; rest of under parts light tawny-ochraceous medially, passing into tawny-brown or tawny- olive on sides and Hanks and into light chestnut or deep cinnamon- rufous on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts uniform tawny- ochraceous, the inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pinkish tawny-ochraceous or yellowish vinaceous-cinnamon; maxilla dark horn brown, becoming paler toward tomia; mandible light horn brown, the under portion (broadly) pale dull yellowish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).
Adults. — Length (skin), 215;[1] wing, 91-93 (92); tail, 82-86 (84.5); culmen, 24-25 (24.7); tarsus, 26-27.5 (27); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21.2).[2]
Highlands of central Guatemala (Cobán, Vera Paz).
- Anabates rubiginosus (not of Sclater) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 5, 117 (Guatemala).
- Automolus rubiginosus (not of Sclater, 1862) Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 337. — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91 (Cobán, Vera Paz, Guatemala).
- [Automolus] rubiginosus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 65, part (Guatemala).
- Automolus veræpacis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, July, 1891, 156 (Cobán, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman).
- [Automolus] veræpacis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.
AUTOMOLUS VERÆPACIS UMBRINUS (Salvin and Godman).
TAWNY AUTOMOLUS.
Similar to A. v. veræpacis but coloration lighter throughout, the throat and chest ochraceous instead of tawny-ochraceous.
Adult female. — Length (skin), 207; wing, 89; tail, 88; culmen, 24.5; tarsus, 27.5; middle toe, 21.5.[3]
Highlands of western Guatemala (Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango; Barranca Honda, Volcán de Fuego).
- Automolus rubiginosus (not Anabates rubiginosus Sclater) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 91, part (Savana Grande, Barranca Honda, Volcan de Agua, and Volcan de Fuego, Pacific side, Guatemala).
- Automolus umbrinus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, July, 1891, 157 (Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango, Pacific side, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman).
- [Automolus] umbrinus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.
