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square spots of gra}'ish white, some of which enclose central spots of dark 

 brown, and all more or less dotted and mottled with the same colour. These 

 square spots less regular on the first and second primaries ; all the primaries 

 with broad pale tips. Internal webs with regular bands of dark and paler 

 brownish black. 



General colour of the face same as the head and back, superciliary plumage 

 and discal circle nearly white, more or less spotted and lined with deep brown. 



Breast deep umber brown tinged with fulvous, every feather having about 

 three very irregular transverse bands, which are broader and paler than those of 

 the back, though of the same character, on the lower part of the breast these 

 bands are nearly white. 



Abdomen pule fulvous, every feather with a longitudinal stripe of black, and 

 with one or two transverse irregular bands at the tip of the same colour, ventral 

 region and under tail coverts pale fulvous nearly white, with a trace of blackish 

 spots. 



Tarsi dark fulvous, mottled with brown ; feathered to the toes. 



Tail black, tipped with white, and having about five bands, which are brownish 

 on the outer and white on the inner webs. 



Bill horn colour at the base, pale yellow at the tip, toes quite naked. 



Total length about 14 inches, wing 10|, tail 6 inches. 



Younger or different sex 1 Pale bands on the superior surface of the body 

 broader, those on the wing coverts, primaries and s.econdaries, enclosing toler- 

 ably regular bands of black. Scapulars with their outer webs fulvous and pure 

 white. 



Spots on the outer webs of the primaries, and bands on the tail nearly white, 

 secondaries broadly tipped with white, each terminal spot enclosing a segment of 

 dark brown. 



Entire inferior surface of the body fulvous, feathers having longitudinal stripes 

 only of dark brown ; under tail coverts nearly pure white. 



Younger 1 Bands on the back and rump almost obsolete, having the appear- 

 ance of spots only. Scapulars and some of the; wing coverts broadly edged with 

 pure white. 



Entire under surface of the body nearly white, with but a tinge of fulvous, the 

 feathers having longitudinal bands only of deep brown. Under tail coverts and 

 tarsi nearly white. 



Total length about 14 inches, wing 9j^,_,tail 6 inches. 



Hub. South America. 



This is a bird of which I have frequently seen specimens, and am surprised 

 that I have not succeeded in finding a description of it. I am acquainted with no 

 species intimately resembling it. 



