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d". Bands on tail ashy. 



c'". Chest ashy grey ; bands on breast and 

 thighs white, with rufous or pale ashy 



bars magnirostris, p. 207. 



d'". Chest rufous ; bands on breast buff, barred 



with rufous nattereri, p. 208. 



6. Thighs uniform, not banded ; plumage black above 



and below leucorrhoa, p. 209, 



1 . AstTirina nitida. 



Plumbeous Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 37 (1787). 



Falco nitidus, Zaf?i. Ind. Orn. i. "p. 41 (1790) : Teinm. PL Col. i. pis. 



87, 294 (1824). 

 Azulejo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 167 (1802). 

 Asturina cinerea, Vieill. Analyse, p. 68 (1816) ; id. et Oud. Gal. Ois. 



i. pi. 20 (1825). 

 Astur nitidus, Vir/. Zool. Jonrn. i. p. 338 (1824) ; HOrb. Voy. Am. 



Merkl. Ois. p. 95 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 27 (1849) ; Burm. Th. 



Bras.'n. p. 68 (1856) ; Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 46 (1866): Gray, Hand-l. 



^.i. p. 30 (1869). 

 Cymindas cinerea, Less. Man. i. p. 91 (1828). 

 Astur striolatus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 332 (1829). 

 Falco striolatus, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 209 (1830). 

 Dsedalion nitidus, Less. Traite, p. 65 (1831). 

 Asturina nitida, Cah. in Scliomh. JReis. Guiun. iii. p. 737 (1848) • Bp 



Cmsp. i. p. 30 (1850); Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 42 (1855) ; Schl. 3fus. 



P.-B. Asturinffi, p. 1 (1862) ; Scl. <$■ iialv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 130 : 



Pefz. Orn. Bras. pp. .3, 395 (1871) ; Scl. ^- Sak-. Nomencl. p. 118 



(1873). ^ 



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



Adult. Above ashy grey, everywhere barred with dull white, the 

 head and neck much lighter, secondaries broadly tipped with white ; 

 primaries dark brown, inclining to ashy grey on the outer web, barred 

 with blackish ; under surface of quills white at the base and on the 

 inner web, barred with dusky black ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform deep ashy, inclining to blackish, the latter 

 broadly tipped with white ; tail ashy black above, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with a broad whitish bar about a third of its 

 length from the tip ; the under surface paler, and crossed with a 

 second lower bar of white ; forehead, sides of face, and throat duU 

 whitish ; rest of under surface transversely barred with ashy grey 

 and white, more narrowly on the thigh-feathers ; under wing- and 

 tail-coverts white, the former with a few bars of ashy grey. Total 

 length 16-3 inches, culmon 1-3, wing 9-8, tail 6-8, tarsus 2-6. 



Adult female. A little larger than the male. Total length 

 18 inches, wing 10-5, tarsus 2-8. 



Toimg. Above brown, most of the feathers margined and washed 

 near the base with rufous ; crown of head buffy white, broadly 

 streaked with dark brown ; forehead, as well as a distinct eyebrow, 

 sides of the face, and throat buffy white, unspotted, except as regards 

 a few marks of dark brown on the latter ; rest of under surface 

 buffy white, scantUy marked with large spots of dark brown at the 



