with back; under parts fawn color ("cervino-brunneus"), throat and breast more rufescent, flanks smoke brown, under tail-coverts rufescent ("rubiginosis"), under wing-coverts cinnamon; bill and feet dusky hazel ("corylinus"), the mandible paler beneath. Total length [adult male] 8.0 [inches = 201 mm.], wing 3.25 [ = 82.5 mm.], tail, middle rectrices, 3.1 [78.5 mm.], lateral rectrices, 2.25 [57 mm.], bill to rictus, 1.5 [38 mm.], tarsus, 1.1 [28 mm.]. (Translation of original description.)
This species, of which only one example is known, is said to be "the darkest of all the forms of Automolus, darker even than A. rubiginosus, and has much darker wings. On the underside it is more like the Guatemalan A. umbrinus, but the sides of the head and the flanks are much darker and the wings outwardly very differently coloured."
Western Panamá (Bibaláz, Volcán de Chiriquí).
- Automolus cervinigularis (not Anabates cervinigularis Sclater) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91, part (spec. n, Bibaláz, Chiriquí).
- Automolus fumosus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 20, July, 1891, 158 (Bibaláz, Chiriquí, Panamá; coll. Salvin and Godman).
- [Automolus] fumosus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 66.
AUTOMOLUS CERVINIGULARIS CERVINIGULARIS (Sclater).
BUFF-THROATED AUTOMOLUS.
Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck deep sooty brown or dark sepia, the forehead paler; back, scapulars, and upper rump plain warm.-sepia or deep olive-brown, the wings similar but more russet or chestnut brown, the outer webs of primaries more or less paler; lower rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut; loral region, a distinct though narrow superciliary stripe, suborbital region, lower portion of auricular region, anterior portion of sides of neck, chin, and throat, deep buff or ochraceous-buff; upper portion of auricular region dark sooty brown, forming a conspicuous postocular stripe; median portion of chest and breast, together with abdomen, dull grayish buff, passing laterally into olive-brown or raw-umber on sides and flanks and into cinnamon-rufous on under tail-coverts; feathers of upper chest (sometimes those of sides of neck and sides of lower throat also) more or less distinctly margined with olive- brown or dusky; under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla horn color (more or less dark) more blackish basally and on culmen; mandible pale brownish or dull whitish (in dried skins), darker terminally, especially along tomia; iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).
Young. — Similar to adults but texture of plumage different.
