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Show 118 darker on the head; the tail brownish, crossed with five bands of blackish- brown, and ending with white; primaries brown; sides of the head and of the neck uniform bright rufous ( not of a deep color) and without dark stride; chin and throat pale rufous white, unspotted; under plumage white, with narrow transverse bars of pale rufous on the breast; and on the abdomen, sides, and thighs with very faint narrow bars of pale rufous- brown, almost obsolete on the lower parts of the abdomen and thighs; under tail- coverts pure white; bill black, plumbeous at base; legs yellow. " Length, about 10£ inches; wing, 6J; tail, 4g; tarsus, lg." Adult female.-" It is larger than the male and more distinctly barred on the breast, the thighs rather lightly so; it has the unspotted rufous cheeks, and the lower part of the abdomen is white, as in the male. 7' Young male.- . . . " Umber- brown above, with the cheeks of a reddish-brown streaked with dusky; the breast blotched with light brown, and bars of darker brown on the abdomen; lower part of the abdomeirwhite, with faint brown transverse markings." Young female.- . . . " Pale umber- brown above, the sides of the head and neck having dusky streaks and showing scarcely any coloring of rufous; sagittate blotches on the breast of a pale rufous brown, with narrow transverse waving lines on the abdomen and thighs of a paler brown." " Another young female . . . has the sides of the head rufous- brown, j with dark streaks, and the throat pale rufous; the markings on the lower parts darker and more clearly defined, the thighs more barred! than in any of the others." I Mr. Lawrence remarks ( L c. p. 10):-" In fonrf, fringilloides is smaller and more slender than fuscm, but the clear rufous cheeks, nearly white under plumage, especially that of the thighs, are strongly in contrast with the rufous- brown cheeks streaked with dark brown, and the strongly- marked rufous under plumage and thighR of fuscus. All specimens of the young under examination have the markings on their under plumage transverse, on the abdomen and thighs being waving and narrow ; whereas in the young of fuscus these markings are longitudinal, large in size, and more extensively distributed; on the sides they are heart- shaped in form, and guttate on the abdomen and thighs. 77 l5r. Gundlach remarks ( Lawrence, I. c, p. 11) that " the adult male and female have the bill black, with the base of a lead color; cere and feet yellow, or pale orange; iris reddish- gray The bill in the young is black on the upper part to the extremity, with a bluish base; cere and cheeks yellowish- green; iris pale orange- gray; feet yellow." According to the same gentleman, the fresh measurements were as follows:- Adult male.- Length, 0.278; extent, 0.508; tail, 0.135. Adult female.- Length, 0.326; extent, 0.618; tail, 0.155. NISUS ERYTHEOCNEMIS. Falco nteus MAX. Beitr. iii, i, 1830, 111 ( not of Linn. 1766.) Accipiter erythronemia GRAY, List Ace. B. M. 1848, 70. A. erythronemius BONAP. Consp. i, 1850, 32.- STRICKL. Orn. Syn. i, 1855, 116. A. erythrocnemie SCL. P. Z. S. 1855, 134; ib. I860, 76; ih. 1866, 3 0 3 . - L . E E , Ibis. 1 « 73, 135 ( Arg. Rep.; notes).- SCL. & SALV. EX. Orn. 1867, pi. x v i i ; Komi Neotr. 1873, 120.- SHAKPE, Cat. Ace. B. M. 1874,147. A. erythroenemius GRAY, Hand List, i, 1869, 32. JVt> n* erythrocnemiua KAUP, Contr. Orn. 1850, 64.- SCHL. MUB. P.- B. Rev. Ace. 1873, 70. N. erythronemius RIDGW. Pr. Boston Soc. N. H. May, 1873, 58. Iftiua fringillariuB subsp. erylhrocnemins KAUP, Wiegni. Arch Bd. i, 1850, 34. JfitU9 striatus BURM. Th. Bras, ii, 1856,71. |
