Drj/mophila, 151 



including the quills and tail, is ferruginous brown, darkest on the 

 head ', the feathers on the back, when raised, are seen to be pure 

 white for about half their length ; they are then obliquely banded 

 by black, while their remaining or external portion is of the sanrre 

 colour as the parts adjacent : the white colour of course is entirely 

 concealed, so also, in part, are the black bands ; the feathers on 

 the rump are remarkably long. From the nostrils commences a 

 broad band (which at first is Avhite, but gradually becomes ful- 

 vous,) passing over the eyes and half way down the neck, leaving 

 the ears and the sides of the head and neck deep black ; the c/tm, 

 in this sex, is also black, and the throat pure white : across the 

 tipper part of the breast is a half concealed collar of black, the 

 margins of the feathers being white, but those on each side the 

 breast tinged with cinereous; the middle of the body is white; 

 ihe flanks light ferruginous, and {\\q under tail covers ixAwows or 

 deep buff colour. The wing covers are deep black, those on the 

 shoulder, and the lesser series, are each tipt with a snow white 

 spot ; while the greater covers and the spurious quills are spotted 

 with buft". Tail moderate and graduated, the outer feathers being 

 only half the length of those in the middle. Tarsi rather lengthr 

 "ened ; claws moderate. In a preserved state these parts are yellow, 

 but in the recent bird they, as well as the irides, are almost white. 

 Wings short and feeble. 



Female. This sex differs in the following particulars. The 

 under mandible of the bill is pale. The concealed white spot oa 

 the back is less : the line above the eye, as well as all the round 

 spots on the wing cpvers, are entirely buif : and the whole of the 

 chin and throat \s buif coloured yellow. The sides of the breast 

 are dusky brown, without any mixture of cinereous ; and the black, 

 pollar round the throat is nearjy obsolete. 



Total length, 5 \ inches; bill, |; wings, 2 -^^; tail, 2 I; tarsi, 



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Obs. My hunters were fortunate in procuring two pair of tliese 

 beautiful little birds, in the forests of Pitangua near Bahia. J had 

 therefore full proof of tlieir identity as one species. 



