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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
- bb. Pileum partly white.
- c. Pileum with more or less of white on basal portion of feathers. (Thamnophilus doliatus.)
- d. Darker, with white bars of upper parts narrower and black bars of under parts broader.
- e. Wing averaging longer (75.5 in adult male),[1] tail relatively shorter (averaging 63 in adult male). (Guianas; Venezuela?).
- d. Darker, with white bars of upper parts narrower and black bars of under parts broader.
- c. Pileum with more or less of white on basal portion of feathers. (Thamnophilus doliatus.)
Thamnophilus doliatus doliatus, adult male (extralimital).[2]
- ee. Wing averaging shorter (72.6 in adult male), tail relatively longer (averaging 62.8 in adult male). (Atlantic slope of Mexico, except Yucatan and Campeche, and Central America.)
Thamnophilus doliatus mexicanus, adult male (p. 40).
- dd. Paler, with white bars of upper parts broader and black bars of under parts narrower.
- e. Averaging smaller (wing averaging 70.1, tail 58.4), with black bars on under parts usually broader. (Pacific slope, from Chiapas to western Panama.)
- dd. Paler, with white bars of upper parts broader and black bars of under parts narrower.
Thamnophilus doliatus pacificus, adult male (p. 43).
- ee. Averaging larger (wing averaging 72, tail 63.2), with black bars on under parts usually narrower. (Yucatan and Campeche.)
Thamnophilus doliatus yucatanensis, adult male (p. 44).
- cc. Pileum spotted or barred with white. (Eastern Panama and Colombia.)
Thamnophilus multistriatus, adult male (p. 45).
aa. Plumage largely rufescent (back, wings, etc., plain chestnut or tawny).
- b. Under parts dull slate-gray streaked with whitish. (Thamnophilus virgatics.)
- c. Wings and tail clearer chestnut-tawny (more rufescent); white streaks on pileum broader, those on under parts extended over greater part of abdomen. (Northwestern Colombia.)
Thamnophilus virgatus virgatus (p. 46).
- cc. Wings and tail duller chestnut-tawny (more cinnamomeous); white streaks on pileum narrower, those on under parts also narrower and on abdomen confined to median line. (Central Colombia.)
Thamnophilus virgatus nigriceps (extralimital).[3]
- bb. Under parts buffy or tawny (with or without transverse bars).
- c. Under parts distinctly barred with blackish.
Thamnophilus multistriatus, adult female (p. 45).
- cc. Under parts not distinctly if at all barred.
Thamnophilus radiatus and subspecies, adult female.[4]
Thamnophilus doliatus and subspecies, adult female.[4]
- ↑ No females of this form have been examined by me.
- ↑ [Lanius] doliatus Linnæus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 138 (South America; based on Lanius cayanensis striatus Brisson, Orn., ii, 187; etc.). — Thamnophilus doliatus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 315 (Cayenne); Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 207, part. — L[anius] (ferrugineus) (not of Gmelin, 1788) Richard and Bernard, Actes de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, i, pt. i, 1792, 116 (Cayenne). — Lanius (ferruginatus) Reich (G. C.), Mag. des Thierreichs, i, Abth. 3, 1795, 129 (emendation of L. ferrugineus Richard and Bernard). — Lanius rubiginosus Bechstein, Allgem. Übers. de Vögel, i, 1793, 696 (new name for L. ferrugineus Richard and Bernard); Latham, Index Orn., Suppl., 1801, p. xix.
- ↑ Thamnophilus nigriceps Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 571 (Bogotá, Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 194, pl. 12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The differences between adult females of the several forms of these two species are not sufficiently definite to be intelligibly expressed in a key — at least not without expenditure of much more time than I am able to give the subject.
