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but also the sides of the breast are banded with dusky olive or blackish. The 

 pileum, too, is rather duller blackish, being obscured by brownish edges to the 

 feathers. 



The young bird (No. 1033), besides being much smaller, differs from the adult 

 ones by its paler under parts, clear olive-brown (not blackish) upper wing-coverts, 

 and by having white dots on the latter as well as on the foreneck, while the 

 feathers of the breast and abdomen show broad white apical bands followed by a 

 subterminal liar or spot of black. In the white spotting it resembles the young 

 of C. variegatus, which, however, has the neck all round deep ochraceons-rufons. 

 C. bartletti is most nearly allied to C. parvirostris Pelz., and apparently its 

 southern representative. In fact, the two species are perfectly alike in size of 

 the bill, proportions, pattern of the wings, back and under wing-coverts, etc., but 

 C. bartletti is easily distinguishable by having the top of the head uniform black, 

 the hindneck, sides of the head and neck dull brown (instead of deep ferruginous) 

 and the foreneck brownish (not deep ferruginous like the chest). 

 C. bartletti is new to Brazil. 



189. Crypturus strigulosus (Temm.). 



Tinamus strigulosus TemmincU, Hint. Nat. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 594, 752(1815. — "dans la province 

 de Paftt "— Sibcr coll.); Pelzeln, Zur Ornith. Bras. iii. 1869. p. 293 (Borba). 



No. 1107. S ad., Humaytha, 18. viii. 00. "Iris brown, feet pale grey, bill 

 blackish grey, below yellowish." — Wing 155 ; tail 27A mm. 

 This bird answers well to Temminck's original description 



190. Rhynchotus rufescens catingae lteis. 



[Thiamu srufescens Temminck, Hist. Nat. Pig. et Gall. iii. pp. 552, 747 (1815. — "Bresil" — Mus. Paris.] 

 Rhynchotus rufescens catingae Reiser, Anzeiger Akad. Wissensch. Wicn 1905. do. xviii. p. 324 (1905. 

 — Piauhy, N.E. Brazil). 



Nos. 1224, 1282. $ ? ad., Humaytha, 12, 22. ix. 06. "Iris pale yellow, feet 

 greyish brown, bill blackish, below yellow." — Wing 170, 190; bill 39, 41J mm. 



As far as I can judge from Iteiser's short diagnosis, these birds seem to belong 

 to his It. r. catingae. They differ from a good series of specimens from Bahia, 

 southern Mattogrosso, S. Paulo, and Buenos Aires in their shorter wings and by 

 having the under parts much darker and more greyish. The flauks are barred 

 with black, as in ordinary R. r. rufescens. This is quite a new locality for the 

 species. Both specimens have been shot in the campos of the hinterland of 

 Humaytha. 



191. Butorides striata (Linn.). 



Ardea striata Lirmaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 144 (1758. — Surinam : Rolander). 



No. 1304. cf juv. Humaytha, 29. ix. 00. " Iris yellow, feet yellowish green, 

 bill black, below yellow." 



192. Tigrisoma lineatum (Bodd.). 



Ardea lineata Boddacrt, Tabl. PI. enl. p. 52 (1783.— ex Daubenton, PI. ml. 8G0 : Cayenne). 



No. 125S. ? juv., Humaytha, 17. ix. 06. "Iris pale brown, feet greyish 

 green, bill yellowish grey." 



