844 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EURYSTOPODUS, 



narrow black bands ; under wing coverts black, barred with 

 rufous-chestnut, and interscapular region blackish brownish, 

 marbled with ashy and black, those adjacent to the scapulars 

 and coverts having a broad black stripe along the outer web of 

 the feathers, shoulders black sparingly dotted with chestnut, the 

 upper wing coverts black with ocelli of ashy and spots of 

 chestnut, the larger series with indistinct bars on the inner webs 

 and roundish deep chestnut spots on the outer ; the inner 

 secondaries very closely freckled, marbled, and vermiculated 

 with ashy, which almost obliterates the chestnut spots and bars ; 

 the smaller scapulars are very closely vermiculated and marked 

 with ashy ; some having the ends of the feathers black, spotted 

 with chestnut and distinctly margined on the outer webs with 

 ashy, which when the feathers are adjusted form a defined band 

 down the scapulars. The inner three secondary quills are brown 

 much freckled with ashy and showing only remains of blackish 

 bars of interscapulars. The remaining secondaries blackish- 

 brown barred with rufous chestnut on the inner webs, the bars 

 not reaching the shaft, the outer webs have remains of 7 — 8 bars 

 or round well defined spots of a richer or darker rufous-chestnut, 

 the outer webs of these feathers more inclining to black as they 

 approach the primaries. The primaries black, the inner ones 

 from the fifth quill inclusive, barred and spotted like the 

 secondaries, the spots and bars become fewer and less distinct 

 until they disappear altogether on the fourth quill ; the first 

 primary has an indication of a white spot on the margin of the 

 inner web, which spot increases in size on the second, third and 

 fourth quills, on which last (fourth) it forms a large white blotch 

 and extends across both webs ; on the outer web of the third is a 

 small white marginal spot. The centre two tail feathers and 

 outer webs only of the others and the upper tail coverts blackish 

 with ashy marblings and freckles forming more or less distinct 

 bands, the tips of all the tail feathers ashy, the inner webs of all 

 the rest of the feathers with at least ten chestnut bars well 



