206 BtlBONIDJ^. 



vary much in breadth. On the subject of this variation see my 

 paper on Glcmcklium (Ibis, 1875, p. 55). 



E.UF0US PHASE. Immature female. Above briji;ht cinnamon, quite 

 uniform on the head and back, the scapulars with no light^coloured 

 oval spots, but have a few dusky bars on the outer web ; the upper 

 tail-coverts perfectly uniform and bright ciunamon like the back ; 

 round the hind neck a faint indication of an ochraceous buff collar, 

 relieved by two tolerably distinct neck-spots ; wing-coverts darker 

 and more bay than the back, the greater series mottled with lighter 

 rufous on their outer webs ; quills blackish, notched with cinnamon 

 on the outer web, terminating a faintly indicated dusky band tra- 

 versing the quills ; the inner secondaries cinnamon like the back, 

 spotted externally with brighter rufous, but very distuictly notched 

 on the inner web with ochraceous buff; tail dull brown, washed 

 more or less with rufous, especially on the centre feathers, and 

 having eight fulvous bars not meeting across the feathers but in- 

 clining to buify white on the exterior margin of some of them, the 

 outer feathers internally barred with whitish, but not showing more 

 than a tiny fulvous spot externally ; over the eye an eyebrow of 

 buffy white feathers ; lores and sides of the face bright cinnamon, 

 the lores thickly obscured with black bristles, the cheeks slightly 

 streaked with fulvous ; a narrow chin and cheeks which are drawn 

 backwards below the ear-coverts pure white, separated from the 

 white fore neck by a band of cinnamon ; rest of under surface white, 

 streaked with cinnamon, deepening into dark brown on a few of the 

 abdominal plumes ; the sides of the body bright cinnamon, especially 

 the sides of the upper breast which converge upon the chest ; thighs 

 cinnamon, lighter on the inner surface ; under wing-coverts yellow- 

 ish, wdth a few cinnamon feathers near the edge of the wing, the 

 outer median series marked with dark brown, the greater series yel- 

 lowish at base, dark brown at tip, resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing-feathers, which are broadly barred with yellowish white on 

 the inner web. Total length 6 inches, wing 3*7, tail 2-5, tarsus 

 0-8. (Guatemala : Mas. Salvin and Godman.) 



3Iore adult bird. Differs very httle from the foregoing bird, ex- 

 cepting that the upper surface is slightly browner and the head is 

 mottled with rufous spots and the upper tail-coverts with ochraceous 

 buff ; the taU is blackish, the spots more distinct and pronounced in 

 shape. 



AduU. Above dull ferruginous, with concealed spots of lighter 

 rufous on the back, a little plainer on the scapulars, the outermost 

 of which have large ovate spots of white ; head narrowly streaked 

 with rufous ochre, some of the featliers showing slight spots ; round 

 the hind neck a whitish collar slightly mottled with rufous, the 

 usual black patches on each side of the hind neck feebly developed ; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, with minute spots of pale 

 ochraceous buff, some large oval spots of white appearing both on 

 the outer coverts of the median and greater series ; quills dark 

 brown, transversely banded with rufous, somewhat paler on the 

 secondaries and towards the outer web of the primaries ; upper 



