16. STRNITTM. 259 



Syrnium nebulosum, var. fulvescens, Ridgxc. N.-A. Birds, iii. p. 29 ; 

 Coues, B. N. W. p. 309. 



Adult. Above reddish chocolate-brown, with more or less con- 

 cealed bands of yellowish ochre, sometimes inclining to white, the 

 scapulars more largely marked with ochre on the outer web ; wing- 

 coverts rather darker chocolate than the back, the least series with 

 only a few indistinct reddish bars, the outer ones with a few white 

 spots, the greater and median series barred across with yellowish, 

 inclining to white on the outer web ; primary-coverts dark brown, 

 with a few reddish bars ; quills dark brown, slightly margined with 

 whitish at the tip, and barred across with dull rufous, the lighter 

 bars inclining to white on the margins of the quills, the spots much 

 larger on the primaries, producing a chequered appearance ; upper 

 tail-coverts chocolate-brown, barred with yellowish buff; tail cho- 

 colate-brown, narrowly tipped with whitish and crossed with six 



Foot of Si/nmitn fulvescens, to show the bare toes. 



other rather narrow bands of ochraceous, the centre bars inclining to 

 whitish ; frontal feathers chocolate-brown ; the head, hind neck, and 

 wig bright golden ochraceous, all the feathers tipped with chocolate- 

 brown, producing a distiactly barred appearance, the plumes on the 

 side of the neck having a whitish shaft-stripe ; facial aspect dull 

 white, the feathers round the eye blackish, as also the loral plumes ; 

 the ear-coverts with mesial white shaft-lines and faint rufous bars ; 

 facial ruff dark chocolate-brown, the upper and lower portion more 

 fulvous, the feathers being barred with the latter colour ; chin dark 

 brown ; the ruff below the chin whitish, with broad dark central 

 streaks ; rest of under surface yellowish, the breast barred with cho- 

 colate-brown, the flanks and sides of the body streaked broadly down 



the same proportion between the light and dark bars as is seen in S. nehulosum. 

 The face is plain dirty white, without the brown bars or semicircles — a con- 

 stant and conspicuous feature in S. nebulosum. There is the same number of 

 spots on the primaries and bands on the tail as in the latter ; the white beneath 

 is without any ochraceous tinge ; the primary-coTcrts are plain dark brown. 

 Wing 1480 inches, tail 9, culmen 105, tarsui 220, middle toe 1'60. 

 "Hub. Eastern Mexico." 



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