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Show 132 Wing, 18,26- 23.70; tail, 8.70- 13.00; culmen, 1.20- 1.00; tarsus, 3.25- 4.30; middle toe, 2.40- 3.30. Adult;- General color deep black, the lower parts posterior to the breast ( inclnding lining of the wing) pore white, and the lesser and middle wing- coverts ash- gray; the white and ashy portions narrowly and closely barred with dusky slate or black-ish; chin, throat, and cheeks pale grayish with. black shaft- streaks; feathers of the neck and breast, also the upper tail- coverts and the rectrices, sometimes minutely tipped with white or grayish. Young:- Above chiefly black, the wing- coverts barred with grayish and ochra-ceous- white ( in older specimens), or irregularly mottled with black and ochraceons ( in younger individuals). Head streaked with black and ochraceous- white, lower parts mixed black and ochraceous, the relative amount of the two colors, and the depth of the ochraceous tint varying with the individual, but the ochraceous usually predominating posteriorly, the former being mostly in large suffused spots, chiefly on the breast and sides. Tibiae usually immaculate, but sometimes narrowly barred with blackish. Mr. Sharpe describes the tail of the " young male" as " ashy gray, mottled with black, more distinctly toward the apex, which is entirely black"; but we have seen no specimens in which the tail is not entirely black, even to the extreme base, except a narrow grayish terminal margin, present in most specimens. A young specimen from Brazil ( No. 50,929, Sr. Don Fred. Albuquerque) is nearly uniform black beneath as far back as the tibise and crissum, which are deep yellowish ochraceous, with irregular black bars on the former, and zigzag spots of the same on the latter. In this specimen, the wing- coverts are pale gray, nearly white anteriorly, everywhere barred with dusky, with but little admixture of ochraceons; the pileum and nape are also nearly uniform black, nearly all the white or ochraceous being beneath the surface. An adult from Bogota ( No. 66,323) differs from Chilian examples of the same stage in having a glaucous or chalky cast to the black portions of the plumage, especially on the head, neck, back, and jugulum; the slaty bars of the abdomen, etc., are also narrower and fainter, those of the crissum being much broader and darker than elsewhere. The tail and upper coverts are more often tipped with grayish than with white. In an adult specimen, the bill was " black at the tip, yellowish- green at the base; eye light hazel; legs and toes chrome- yellow; claws black. Total length, 18J inches."-( Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 18GU, p. 155.) List of specimens in United States Xational Museum. Catalogue No-. 13939 13909 48816 48817 90929 50933 66323 Original So. 11 11 « M o a © a M. M. 8. s. Sss... Sex and ago. 9 ad. cfad. $ ad. - ad. - juv. - ad. Locality. Chili do do Chili ( Santiago) Brazil do Bogota, New Granada Date May -, July - 1863 1864 From whom received. Lieutenant Gilliaa, Do. National Mnoeum Cbilf*. Do. Sell or Don F. Albnnnerqne. Do. Mr. Hurlburt. Other spec'meis examined.- Mus. Boston Soc. N. II., 6; Philad. Acad. X. S., 11: Am. Mus, N. YM 4; G. N. Lawrence, 1; total, 29. |