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12. Cinclus leucocephalus. 



Cinclus leucocephalus, Tschudi, Arch.f. Nut. 1844, p. 279 ; Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 252 (1850) ; Tschudi, Faun. Peruan., Aves, p. 180, pi. xv. fig. 1 

 (1855); Baird, Revinv Amer. B. p. CO (1864); Sdv. Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 122 ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 599 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 3 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 504. 



Hydi'obata leucocephala, Gh-ay, Gen. B. i. p. 215 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. 

 'B. i. p. 267, no. 3910 (1869). 



Adult (Pitumarca, Highlands of Peru ; H. Whitely). General 

 colour above sooty black, deeper black on the upper tail-coverts and 

 rump ; wings black, browner towards the end of the quills ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown ; crown of head white, a few feathers 

 slightly varied with central longitudinal blackish markings ; lores 

 and a streak through the eye running above the ear-coverts sooty 

 blackish, the latter slightly washed with ashy, as also are the hind 

 neck and sides of neck ; sides of face greyish white, the ear-coverts 

 mingled with sooty black ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck white ; the 

 rest of the tindor surface from the upper breast downwards sooty 

 black, washed with ashy on the breast ; under wing-coverts sooty 

 brown ; quills dark bro'rni below, with a large white patch caused 

 by the white bases to the inner webs of the inner quills. Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3'5, tail 1-9, tarsus 1. {Mus. 

 Salvin and Godman.) 



Hah. Peru. 



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