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Show 123 middle toe, 1.30- 1.55. Five outer primaries with inner webs emargin-ated; fourth and fifth quills longest; third next; first shortest. Tail even or very slightly rounded. Lower parts mostly white, without transverse bars, the tibiae pale ochraceous. Adult male ( specimen in Coll. O. Salvin, from Trinidad or Venezuela):- Above, blackish plumbeous, the pileum darkest; longer upper tail-coverts very narrowly tipped with white. Tail light brownish- slate, narrowly tipped with white, and crossed by four broad bands of dull black. These bands, except the subterminal one, rather narrower than the interspaces. Lower parts pure white; the feathers of the throat, cheeks, aud breast with fine shaft- streaks of black; tibise plain pale reddish- ochraceous and lining of wing tinged with the same. Inner webs of primaries white, gradually becoming slate- color terminally, and marked with distinct transverse spots of darker slate, these spots or bars being six in number ( counting the distinct ones) on the fourth quill. Lores whitish, with black shafts to the feathers; suborbital region and upper and posterior border of the auriculars plumbeous-black. Occipital feathers pure white beneath surface; scapulars with large concealed spots of white. Wiug, G. 80; tail, 6.00; culmen, 0.40; tarsus, 1.90; middle toe, 1.25. Adult female:- Above slate- color, with a brownish cpst; tail light-brownish slate ( sometimes with a narrow white tip), crossed by four or five broad bands of dull Ulack. Lower parts as in the male. Wing, 7.85- 8.40; tail, 6.60- 7.30; culmen, 0.50- 0.52; tarsus, 2.10- 2.25; middle toe, 1.50- 1.55. Young ( both sexes):- Above, dark slate- brown ( the pileum nearly black), each feather indistinctly bordered terminally with pale fulvous. Tail light grayish- brown, crossed by four broad bands of dull black. Lower parts as in the adult, but feathers of the breast and sides with faint longitudinal stripes of dilute brown, these wider aud more rufous ou the sides. Among the adult females before us, four in number; there is but slight variation to be noticed, three of them being quite alike, while the remaining one, a specimen from San Geronimo, Vera Paz, Guatemala ( No. 2272, Mas. Salv. and Godra.), differs in having the lower parts quite extensively tinged with ochraceous, especially on the breast and sides, while the anterior portions are destitute of the usual dusky shaft-breaks. List and measurement* of specimens examined. Locality. 3 | * i * « . ^ Trinidad or Venezuela"!??].!^ ad. | 6. 80 t Guatemala ( Medio Monte).. j |
