much rounded, the longest primaries but little longer than secondaries; sixth and seventh or fifth, sixth, and seventh, primaries longest, the tenth (outermost) about three-fifths as long as the longest. Tail about as long as wing, graduated for about one-third its length, the rectrices (12) rather broad and rounded terminally. Tarsus more than one-third as long as wing (about as long as bill from rictus to tip of maxilla), rather slender, distinctly scutellate, the plantar scutella in two parallel, contiguous rows; middle toe, with claw, much shorter than tarsus; outer toe (without claw) reaching to or beyond middle of subterminal phalanx of middle toe, the inner decidedly shorter, reaching (without claw) about to subterminal articulation of middle toe; hallux about as long as inner toe but much stouter; middle toe united to outer toe for whole of its basal phalanx, to inner toe for about half as much; claws moderate, strongly curved, that of hallux decidedly shorter than the digit. Plumage full, blended, moderately lax, that of the rump much developed; pileum with a full decumbent crest of broad, rounded feathers.
Coloration. — Adult male black, the upper parts (except pileum) narrowly, the under parts more broadly, barred with white; adult female with pileum chestnut, the rest of plumage barred with chestnut or brown and buffy or pale fulvous.
Range. — Nicaragua to Peru and lower Amazon Valley. (Monotypic.)
CYMBILAIMUS LINEATUS FASCIATUS Ridgway.
FASCIATED ANTSHHIKE.
Similar to C. l. lineatus[1] but averaging decidedly larger; adult male with black bars on under parts averaging decidedly broader (especially on throat), the adult female and young with under parts much more strongly buffy and (usually, at least,) more heavily barred.
Adult male. — Pileum black, the forehead (sometimes crown and occiput also) narrowly barred with white; rest of upper parts black, narrowly and rather distantly barred with white, the outer webs of primaries and distal secondaries with small spots of white in transverse series; sides of head and neck and entire under parts sharply barred with black and white, the bars of the two colors about equal in width; maxilla black, mandible pale grayish or dull yellowish (pale bluish gray, with whitish tip, in life); iris carmine red; legs
and feet grayish or horn color (light bluish gray in life); length
- ↑ Lanius lineatus Leach, Zool. Misc., i, 1815, 20, pl. 6 (Guiana). — Thamnophilus lineatus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 316. —C[ymbilaimus] lineatus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 49. — Cymbilanius lineatus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 1854, 112; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 178, part. — Cymbilanius lineatus lineatus Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 60, 369. (Tropical South America in general, except Pacific Coast district south to Ecuadór).
