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rously banded with rufous ochre, of which bands about ten can be 

 counted on the outer web of the primaries, the inner web being barred 

 with paler and more chocolate-brown ; the secondaries also externally 

 barred with rufous ochre, the bars about six in number, the inner- 

 most secondaries like the back, mottled with ashy grey ; inner lining 

 of wing ashy brown, spotted with fulvous on the outer web, the inner 

 web barred with yellowish buif near the base ; tail dark brown, 

 lighter at tip and mottled on outer margin and crossed with ten or 

 eleven verj' narrow and irregular bars of rufous ochre, inclining to 

 fulvous underneath the tail, which is lighter brown below ; loral 

 plumes blackish, inclining to white near the base, and the feathers 

 in front of the eye spotted with white ; ear-coverts dark brown, 

 blackish on their hinder margin and obsoletely barred with ochraceous 

 buff; the facial ruff blackish brown, all the plumes white for more 

 than the basal half ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface of body 

 deep ochraceous buff, the breast clouded with brown vermiculations 

 and spotted with ochraceous buff or white, thus resembling the back, 

 the white markings larger on the sides of the chest ; the lower 

 breast and flanks varied or streaked with a few dark feathers, the 

 centres of the plumes longitudinally blackish brown, with distinct 

 spots of white or ochraceous buff on either web, these markings 

 almost entirely disappearing on the vent and under tail-coverts ; leg- 

 feathers deep rufous ochre ; under wing-coverts also deep ochraceous 

 buff, slightly marked with white near the outer margin of wing, the 

 greater series ashy brown, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing. 

 Total length 13 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 8-6, tail 5, tarsus 1*2. 

 Ifab. Columbia and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. st. Bogota. 



b. Ad. st. New Granada. Purchased. 



18. Syrnium superciliare. 



Syrnium supercihare, Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 18C3, p. 1125; Gray, 



Band-l. B. i. p. 50. 

 Syrnium zonocercum, Scl. Sf Salt. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 590 (nee Gray). 

 Syrnium polygrammicum, Gray, Hand-l. £. i. p. 49 (1869)*. 

 Ciccaba polygrammica, Scl. ^ Salv. Nommicl. Av. p. 117. 



Adult. Above chocolate-brown, distinctly but irregularly barred 

 across with orange-buff, each bar having a conterminous one of 

 blackish brown ; the scapulars externally orange-buff, some few yel- 

 lowish white forming a distinct longitudinal shoulder-patch ; wing- 



* Like 8. zonocercvm, the name of 8. folygrammiciim was published by the 

 late Mr. G. R. Gray in the second catalogue of Accipitres (1848). No type 

 specimen was indicated, no description given, and at least three species were 

 included under this MS. name, viz. 8. virgatum (Cass.), 8. superciliare, Pelz., and 

 8. sti/nda (V.). Either of the last two species would justify the specific name of 

 polygrammicum ; and it is only by hazard that I can refer to the moimted 

 example of S. superciliare as being the 8. polygrammicnm of the 'Hand-Ust,' for 

 no indication is on the stands of the specimens. Seeing, therefore, that it is im- 

 possible to fix the type of Gray's species (which was, in addition, never described), 

 it appears to me safer to recognize Von Pelzehi's name, wliich was accompanied 

 by a full description of the bird. 



