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narrow subterminal black band on the tail approaches cinnamomina, 

 the tips of the feathers are white (the central ones grayish), without 

 rufous ; the inner web of the outer rectrix in both specimens is black and 

 white, but in one it shows some rufous on the basal portion. Three 

 males and one female from the Parana region, Paraguay (Coll. U. S. 

 National Museum), may be briefly described as follows: 



Male, No. 20937, U. S. Nat. Mus., labeled "Exploration of the 

 Parand, Sept., 1860. Type of Tinnunculus sparverius var. australis 

 Ridgw." 



Crown with small patch of rufous; under parts nearly white (with 

 no noticeable wash of ochraceous rufous on breast), marked with 

 numerous comparatively small linear spots of black; tips of rectrices 

 largely worn off, but three outer ones showing more or less white; 

 greatest width of subterminal black band on any of the rectrices 17 mm. ; 

 inner web of outer rectrix on one side of the tail rufous, with one subter- 

 minal black band; the outer rectrix on the opposite side with basal por- 

 tion rufous, the terminal third white, with two black bands; wing, 193; 

 tail, 133 mm. This specimen is apparently an intergrade between 

 cinnamomina and australis, more nearly approaching the former. 



Male, No. 119802, agrees in coloration and marking with specimens 

 from Bahia, but the size is large (wing, 195; tail, 137), no rufous on the 

 tips of rectrices; inner web of outer rectrix black and white; width of tail 

 band on central rectrices, 18 mm. 



Male, No. 119801, agrees very well in size and coloration with some 

 Bahia specimens (wing, 184; tail, 128) ; tips of some of the rectrices with 

 a tinge of rufous; tail band 18 mm. ; inner web of outer rectrix black and 

 white, but showing a trace of rufous along the shaft on the basal portion. 



Female, No. 20936, approaches some specimens from Chile in size 

 and coloration (wing, 196; tail, 143). 



Cerchneis sparveria peruviana Cory. 



Cerchneis sparverius peruviana Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 Pub., Ornith. Series, I, No. 8, 1915, p. 296. 



Type locality: Chachapoyas, Peru; alt. about 7700 ft. 



Range: Peru and southern Ecuador, probably intergrading with 

 C. s. cinnamomina in southern Peru; with australis in Bolivia and 

 possibly with aquatorialis in southern Ecuador. 



Characters: Male. Breast pale ochraceous cinnamon rufous, 

 somewhat paler on sides of body and shading into cinnamon buff on 

 abdomen; buffy white on thighs and under tail coverts; sides of body 

 and flanks with large rounded black spots and often a few linear black 



