276 BUBONID.E. 



the scapulars and wing-coverts, and much smaller and less pro- 

 nounced on the head, which is rather hlacker than the rest of the 

 upper surfoce ; wing-coverts black, more sparsely barred with white 

 than the back ; quills deep brown, barred across with light brown, 

 changing to white on the outer webs, the secondaries nearly all 

 barred with white ; tail black, tipped with white and crossed with four 

 bands of the same ; lores, feathers round the eye, sides of the face, 

 and facial ruff black, spotted and tipped with white ; sides of neck 

 banded with black and white like the back of the ucck ; chin black ; 

 rest of under surface of body black, banded with white, the leg- 

 feathers black, veiy slightly banded with white ; under wiug-coverts 

 black, banded with white like the breast, the lower series ashy 

 brown, more or less varied with white near the base of the inner 

 web, thus resembling the inner lining of the wing. Total length 17 

 inches, culmen l-o, wing 10-3, tail G-o, tarsus 1'9. 

 ■ Hub. Brazil, Guiana. 

 a. Ad. St. Cayenne. H. C. Rothery, Esq. [P.]. 



22. Syrnium nigrolineatum. 



Syrnium nigrolineatum, Sclater, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 268, pi. 03 ; Grat/, 



IIaml4. B. i. p. 49. 

 Ciccaba uigrolineata, Scl. &^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 117. 



Yoimcj. Above silvery white, narrowly barred with dark brown, 

 a few black feathers appearing here and there, more especially on 

 the crown ; wiug-coverts black, excepting a few of the greater ones, 

 which are huffy white barred with black, the outermost plume of the 

 winglet tipped and barred with white ; quills black, with a few 

 scattered narrow bars of white or pale brown ; tail black, crossed 

 with six narrow white bars and tipped with white, the tip being 

 much broader than the cross bars ; lores and sides of the face 

 entirely black, as also the chin ; entire under surface of body white, 

 washed more or less with yellowish, and numerously crossed with 

 blackish, the under wing-coverts very thickly, but the under tail- 

 coverts more narrowly, barred with black. 



Adult. Above uniform black, the head much darker than the 

 back, which has a slight shade of chocolate ; hind neck and wig 

 black, banded with white and forming a collar ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and sides of face black, the eyebrow spotted with 

 white, and the ear-coverts minutely tipped with white ; entire wing- 

 coverts black ; quills blackish brown, sparingly notched or half- 

 barred with yellowish white on the outer web, changing more or 

 less to pale brown, especially on the inner webs of the feathers ; the 

 lower surface of the quills ashy black, with broad creamy buff bars 

 near the base of the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts black, barred 

 with white ; tail black, tipped narrowly with white, and crossed 

 with five other bars of white ; chin black ; rest of under surface 

 white, narrowly barred with black, rather more broadly on the 

 (lanks and under tail-coverts, and more thickly on the leg-feathei"s 

 and iinder wing-coverts, especially on the outermost, the greater 



