104 BUBONID^. 



miculations, the inner webs also inclining to })lackish ; quills sandy- 

 coloured, barred A\-ith dark brown on the inner web, the primaries 

 externally notched with white ; the innermost secondaries light 

 sandy, slightly freckled with duU bkickish vermiculations, and 

 crossed with "five or six pale fulvous bars ; tail pale sandy colour, 

 with a few nearly obsolete vermiculations of blackish, and crossed 

 with about eight fulvous bars, disappearing towards the tips of the 

 feathers ; lores sandy rufous, inclining to blackish at the tips ; a 

 broad frontal patch of feathers extending on each side over the eye, 

 obsoletely freckled with brown, and obscm-ely tipped with blackish ; 

 ear-coverts dull sandy brown, with Mhitish shaft-lines, and ob- 

 scurely barred -with dusky brown ; behind the oar-coverts an in- 

 distinct ruff of fidvous feathers, narrowly tipped with black, these 

 tips disappearing on the gular feathers, which have the shaft-stripes 

 obscurely black ; rest of under surface pale ashy buff, obsoletely 

 freckled with vermiculations of pale brown, many of the feathers 

 inclining to dull whitish on the breast, increasing into tolerably 

 distinct bars on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a few of the 

 feathers on the sides of the breast with some tiny blackish central 

 streaks : leg-feathers sandy coloirr, with narrow linear markings of 

 rufous brown ; under wing- coverts fulvescent, those near the edge 

 inclining to sandy brown, the lower series ashy brown, fulvous at 

 base, resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are brown 

 below, barred on both webs with fulvous in about equal proportions. 

 Total length 7*5 inches, -wing 5-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95. (^Mus. G. 

 E. Shelleif.) 



Hah. Gold Coast. 



B. Sjyecies of tJie New World. 



a. Total length not exceeding 11 inches; ear- 

 tufts not more than 1-5 inch long. 

 a'. Tarsus feathered for more than half its 

 length. 

 a". Toes bare. 



«'". Size small; wing not exceeding 5^ 

 inches. 

 a*. Tarsus thickly feathered right to 

 the junction of the toes; sides of 

 crown gi'cy, like sides of neck; 

 top of crown and sides of face 

 washed with orange, the white 

 spots on the scapulars also washed 



with orange Jlammeolus, p. 105. 



h*. Tarsus bare on extreme lower por- 

 tion ; no orange on sides of face or 

 on top of head, nor on the sca- 

 pular spots; sides of crown not 

 strikingly different from the crown 



itself barharits, p. 107. 



V". Size large ; wing exceeding 6 inches, brasilianus and allies, 



pp. 108-112. 



6". Toes feathered nsio and aUies, pp. 114- 



121. 



