olive-buff) posteriorly, the sides and flanks darker and more grayish (approaching light hair brown); under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla dusky, with paler tomia; mandible pale yellowish grayish (in dried skins); feet dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 136.5-142 (139); wing, 65-67 (66); tail, 53.5-62.5 (58); column, 18.5-19.5 (19); tarsus, 21-21.5 (21.2); middle toe, 12-12.5 (12.2).[1]
Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without the concealed dorsal patch of cinnamon-rufous or ochraceous-buff, the underlying portion of the interscapulars being pale gray with whitish shaft- streaks; length (skins), 129.5-145 (138); wing, 66-67 (66.5); tail, 54-56 (55.2); cuhnen, 18-20 (19.2); tarsus, 19.5-20.5 (19.9); middle toe, 12-12.5 (12.1).[2]
Southeastern Mexico, in State of Tabasco (Teapa); Guatemala (Choctúm; Cajabón; Samayoa; Telemán); British Honduras (Toledo District).
- Thamnistes anahatinus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 299 (Choctúm, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. P. L. Sclater). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 399 (Choctúm). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 176 (Choctum and Cajabón, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 216, part (Choctum, Cajabón, and Samayoa, Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 205, part, pl. 50, fig. 1 (Telemán, etc., Guatemala).
- [Thamnistes] anabatinus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70, part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 17, part.
- Thamnistes anabatinus anabatinus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 20, 1908, 193, in text.
THAMNISTES ANABATINUS SATURATUS Ridgway.
RUSSET ANTSHRIKE.
Similar to T. a. anabatinus but coloration much darker and less ochraceous (more olivaceous) above, the pileum more or less dis- tinctly rufescent (sometimes deep russet or mars brown); wings much
less rufescent, especially the secondaries; size averaging smaller.
- ↑ Two specimens.
- ↑ Four specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tail. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. One adult male from Guatemala 67 62.5 18.5 21.5 12 One adult male from Tabasco (Teapa) 65 53.5 19.5 21 12.5 females. Two adult females from British Honduras (Toledo District) 66 55 19 19.7 12.2 One adult female from Guatemala 67 55 18 19.5 12 One adult female from Tabasco (Teapa) 66 56 20 20.5 12
