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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

Adult female. — Pileum deep cinnamon-rufous or rufous-chestnut; back, scapulars, and rump plain buffy cinnamon, the first deeper, inclining to russet; outer row of scapulars grayish brown, broadly edged with buff; wings and tail as in adult male, but the former with markings buff instead of white, and ground color of coverts less dark; sides of head, chin, and throat, pale buff or buffy white, the former barred and streaked with blackish; rest of under parts plain buff or clay color, slightly paler medially, especially on abdomen; maxilla horn color, mandible much paler; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins); wing, 69-73.5 (71.8); tail, 56-61 (58); culmen, 18-18.5 (18.2); tarsus, 26-26.5 (26.2); middle toe, 14-15 (14.5).[1]

Northern Colombia (Rio Atrato; Rio Truando; Cartagena; Sabanilla; Barranquilla; Santa Marta, Bonda, and Cienega, Santa Marta; Valencia).

H[ypolophus] pulchellus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Aug., 1859, 16 (Cartagena, Colombia; coll. Heine Mus.).
Thamnophilus pulchellus Berlepsch, Ibis, Apr., 1881, 245 (crit.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 204 (Valencia, Santa Marta, and Barranquilla, Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 201 (Rio Truando, Santa Marta, and Cartagena, n. Colombia). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 161 (Bonda and Cienega, Santa Marta, Colombia).
[Thamnophilus] pulchellus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 15.
Thamnophilus, sp.?, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1860, 189, no. 88 (Rio Truando).
Thamnophilus leucauchen (not of Sclater, 1855), Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 174, part (Santa Marta). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1881, 171 (Santa Marta).


Genus THAMNOPHILUS Vieillot.

Thamnophilus[2] Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 40; Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 308.[3] (Type, Pie-Grieche rayee — Fourmillier huppé Buffon = Lanius doliatus Linnæus.)
Tamnophilus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 70. — D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1849 (Synop. Av., p. 10).

Medium-sized Formicariidæ (length about 150-160 mm.) with bill much shorter than head, not compressed, its terminal unguis small; adult males with under parts (usually upper parts also) conspicuously barred with black and white, or (in T. virgatus) dull slate-gray streaked with whitish; adult females and young tawny or rufous above, ochraceous or buff below.[4]

Bill much shorter than head (exposed culmen shorter than middle toe with claw), broader than deep at frontal antiæ, where its width is equal to much more than half the distance from nostril to tip of

maxilla; culmen broad, indistinctly ridged, slightly convex from

  1. ↑ Three specimens. (All the specimens examined are in bad condition, and some measurements can not be made from them.)
  2. ↑ From τάμνος, frutex, and φιλέω, gaudeo. (Vieillot.)
  3. ↑ Type given as "Lanius turdus Lath[am]."
  4. ↑ The female and young of T. virgatus unknown, however.
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