. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. ATLAPETES. 471 Genus ATLAPETES "Wagl. Atlapetes "Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 526. Type A. pileatus Fig. 179.âAtlapetes personatus. This genus is distinguished chiefly by the short wings and long- tail. The bill is pointed and somewhat compressed, the depth and â width at the base are and about two-thirds the length o£ the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest and subequal, the second about equal in length to the eighth, and the
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. ATLAPETES. 471 Genus ATLAPETES "Wagl. Atlapetes "Wagler, Isis, 1831, p. 526. Type A. pileatus Fig. 179.âAtlapetes personatus. This genus is distinguished chiefly by the short wings and long- tail. The bill is pointed and somewhat compressed, the depth and â width at the base are and about two-thirds the length o£ the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest and subequal, the second about equal in length to the eighth, and the first about four-tenths shorter than the second. The tail is rounded at the tip, the middle feathers being nearly one-fourth longer than the outermost. The tarsus is about twice as long as the exposed culmen and about one-fourth longer than the middle toe and claw. Coloration : male and female similar. 646. Atlapetes personatus. Rufous-headed Sparrow. Arremon personatus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis Guian. iii. p. 678, 1848. Buarremon personatus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Eoraima, 4000- 6000 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 270, 1886 (Eoraima). Atlapetes personatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 389, no. 4000, 1912 Adult. Crown of head, nape, sides of face, sides of neck, and chin rufous; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts and upper wing- coverts slaty-black with a greenish tinge; flight-quills blackish with isabelline margins on the inner webs, the outer web of the first primary inclining to white; tail also blackish ; throat, reast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yellow more or less intermixed with olive-green ; sides of the body and thighs dusky olive-green; under wing-coverts cream-white like the inner edges of the quills below; marginal-coverts and greater series much darker and inclining to blackish ; under surface of quills and lower aspect of tail blackish Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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