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I have met with, and is about the same size, (as the figure,) while in general 

 appearance, particularly in the colouring of the breast and belly, it bears some 

 resemblance to Sfrix (^Lophns'rix) crislata, Daud, (^griscafu, Lath.) It is, how- 

 ever, a true Ephiulfes, though an aberrant species. The sagittate spots dis- 

 tinguish it, and as far as I know are peculiar. 



Ei'HiALTES W'atsonii, nobis. Summit of the head black, with a few very 

 minute pale spots, more numerous on the front and eyebrows. Shorter feathers 

 of the ear tufts black, others black also, but with their inner webs spotted or 

 mottled with white. A semicircle above the eye extending to the ear tufts, 

 black; rigid feathers at the base of the bill black, with pale grayish termina- 

 tions ; feathers immediately below the eye gray, mottled and broadly tipped with 

 black. 



Discal feathers grayish white, many of them speckled, and all tipped with 

 black, presenting a white and black semicollar or ruff on each side of the neck. 

 Plumage of the throat with fine alternate bars of black and nearly white. 



Neck above W'ith a well defined collar, the feathers composing which are 

 strongly fulvous, terminated with white and speckled with black. 



Back, rump, tail, and wing coverts mottled and freckled with grayish white 

 upon a black ground, many of the feathers having about three to five very 

 irregular transverse bands of whitish ; on the wing coverts and back some of the 

 pale marks are almost circular with black centres, others are of irregular form 

 also enclosing centres of black. 



External webs of the primaries black, with subcjuadrate nearly white bars, 

 nearly all of which have black centres, assuming, also, a more or less well de- 

 fined square form. Internal webs of primaries with alternate bands of different 

 shades of black. 



Breast and entire inferior parts pale fulvous, every feather conspicuously 

 marked on the shaft longitudinally with black, and with very irregular transverse 

 bands and irregularly mottled with black ; the black markings most numerous 

 and most irregular on the breast. Many of the feathers on the breast with very 

 pale nearly white spots, having somewhat the appearance of being distributed 

 in pairs. 



'I'ail black, with about seven or eight narrow irregular grayish bands, many of 

 which have central lines of black. 



Tarsi feathered to the toes, pale fulvous white, mottled with black. 



Bill horn colour at the base, whitish at the tip. 



Total length (of skin) about 9j| inches, wing 7, tail 3^ inches. 



Younger ? Plumage above paler, with small spots and minute freckles of 

 grayish white, scarcely assuming the appearance of bands. 



Breast with the dark markings predominating, and tending to form a broad 

 pectoral band ; lower parts of the body bright fulvous, with black marks. 



Hub. South America. 



This species bears some resemblance to EpJiialtcs atricapillu, (\att.) Temm. 

 pi. col. 145, but is much larger, and has only one nuchal collar. The general 

 colour above is also much darker; the fulvous colouring of the inferior surface 

 of the body is also a striking difference. 



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