202 FALCONID^. 



Young. Very similar to the adult, but browuer above, the feathers 

 being margined with fulvous ; the crown and sides of face streaked 

 with pale ochre ; the under surface, especially the under wing- 

 coverts, washed with ochre. 



Black variety. All over sooty black, excepting a few streaks of 

 white on the forehead, ear-coverts, and throat ; the bases of all the 

 breast-feathers white ; quills black, the secondaries a little browner, 

 and decidedly paler brown at tips ; tail brown, tipped with paler 

 brown, and crossed with eight blackish bands, these being browner 

 underneath but very plain, as the interspaces are ashy white ; lower 

 under wing-coverts barred with white, the bases of the quills white 

 on the inner web for a great extent. Total length 16 inches, 

 culmen 1-25, wing 12, tail 6-6, tarsus 2-2, middle toe 1-4. (Mus. 

 Lugd.) 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Brazil. 



d. Ad. st. S. America. Piu-chased. 



30. ASTUSINA. 



Type. 



Asturina, Vieill. Analyse, p. 24 (1816) A. nitida. 



Eupornis, Kaitp, Classif. Siiiig. u. Vog. p. 120 (1844) . . A. magnirostris. 

 Asturisca, Sundev. Av. Tent. p. 107 (1873). 



C£ Sclater <§■ Salvin, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 129. 



Bill of Asturina j)uch€ranL 



Range. From South-eastern Brazil, Paraguay, BoHvia, and Peru, 

 throughout Amazonia, Guiana, and Columbia, Central America, into 

 the south-eastern States of N. America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Thighs banded. 



«'. Thighs white, banded with blackish or ashy 

 grey. 

 a". Above ashy grey, with transverse whitish 



bands nitida, p. 203. 



b". Above uniform dark ashy grey plagiata, p. 204. 



V . Thighs buff, banded with rufous, 

 c". Bands on tail rufous. 

 «'". Head and throat ashy grey ; base of pri- 

 maries deep ferruginous rvjicauda, p. 205. 



h". Head and throat dark brown ; base of 



primaries buff' puchcrani, p. 205. 



