AUTOMOLUS PALLIDIGULARIS PALLIDIGULARIS Lawrence.
PALE-THROATED AUTOMOLUS.
Somewhat like A. cervinigularis but superciliary stripe much less distinct (the supra-auricular portion more or less obsolete), general coloration paler, feathers of chest without darker margins, and size smaller.
Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck sepia brown, paler on forehead, where the feathers have indistinct narrow mesial streaks or shaft-streaks of brownish buffy; back and scapulars plain deep olive- brown, passing into chestnut on lower rump, tail-coverts, and tail and into deep russet-brown or prouts brown on wings, this passing into dusky on tips of remiges and primary coverts; an indistinct narrow superciliary stripe of brownish buff, becoming obsolete above posterior portion of auricular region; auricular and suborbital regions sepia brown, with indistinct shaft-streaks of dull buffy; malar region, chin, and throat immaculate pale dull cream buff; rest of under parts light wood brown medially, passing laterally into tawny-olive or raw-umber on sides and flanks and into light chestnut or tawny on under tail-coverts, the chest with median portion of feathers pale cream buffy, producing an indistinctly flammulated effect; under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous- buff; maxilla horn color, the upper-basal portion dusky or blackish; mandible horn color with lower-basal portion dull whitish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).
Young. — Similar to adults but texture of plumage very different and feathers of lower throat narrowly margined terminally with dusky.
Adult male. — Length (skin), 188; wing, 85.5; tail, 70.5; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 19.[1]
Adult female. — Length (skin), 176.5; wing, 87; tail, 75; culmen, 22; tarsus, 22.5; middle toe, 16.5.[1]
Eastern Panamá (Panamá; Lion Hill); Colombia (Remédies, Antioquía)?[2] Ecuadór?[2]
- Anabates cervinigularis (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 294 (Lion Hill Station, Panamá).
- Anabates ochrolæmus (not of Tschudi) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 319 (Lion Hill).
- Automolus pallidigularis Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 465 (Lion Hill Station, Panamá,; eoll. G. N. Lawrence). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 354 (Lion Hill; crit.); (?) 1879, 522 (Remédios, Antioquía, Colombia). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 94, part (Panamá; Remédios, Colombia?). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 159, part (Lion Hill, Panamá; Colombia?). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 26 (Loma del León, Panamá).
