c. 



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maries blackish, with no perceptible bars on the upper surface, ex- 

 cept a dark purplish brown subterminal shade on the secondaries ; 

 the inner face of the wing huffy white, with a few indistinct bars on 

 the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts dark brown, barred and 

 tipped with white ; tail brown, tipped with white, before which a 

 subterminal indistinct bar of purplish brown, the bars on the other 

 feathers principally on the inner webs, and nowhere very distinct ; 

 under surface of body creamy white, with longitudinal or rounded 

 spots of pale rufous, especially distinct on the thighs, less distinct on 

 the under wing-coverts, and nearly obsolete on the under tail- 

 coverts. 



Hah. From Costa Rica and Guatemala northwards to Arizona and 

 Illinois. 



a. Juv. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



b. Ad. St. Guatemala. 0. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. st. Guatemala. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. Juv. St. Mexico. Purchased. 



e. Skeleton. 



3. Asturina ruficauda. 



Asturiua raag-uirostris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 285 (nee Gm.); Scl. &■ 



Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 217. 

 Astm-ina ruficauda, Scl. <§• Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 133, et Ex. Orn. 



pi. Ixxxviii. (1869), et Nomencl. p. 118 (1873). 



Adult. Above dull ashy grey, a little clearer on the head and 

 sides of the face, the upper tail-coverts tipped with white, and 

 barred with black and pale rufous or buff; wing-coverts slightly 

 darker and more brown than the back ; quills deep chestnut, in- 

 clining gradually to dark brown at the tips, barred with blackish, 

 the bars paler and broader on the secondaries, the outermost of 

 which are ashy brown externally, the inner ones uniform ashy, like 

 the back ; inner face of the wing rufous, the primaries barred and 

 tipped with dark brown, the bars becoming obsolete towards the 

 inner quills ; tail rufous, tipped with ashy, and banded across with 

 four broad bars of blackish brown ; throat and chest dull ashy grey, 

 the former somewhat varied with white, the latter with rufous ; 

 rest of under surface pale rufous, banded alternately with that 

 colour and white, with a few bars of ashy on the breast ; under 

 tail-coverts huffy white, with a few obsolete bars of rufous ; thighs 

 barred with fulvous and pale rufous ; under wing-coverts buff, 

 slightly spotted and barred with pale rufous, the axillaries plainlj' 

 barred with buff and pale rufous. 



Hah. Central America, from S. Mexico to Panama. 



a. Ad. sk. Chiriqui. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood [P 



I. Ad. sk. Pearl Island, Bay of Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood [P, 



Panama. 



e. Ad. sk. Ilio Negro, Brazil. Purchased. 



4. Astui'ina pucherani. 

 Esparvero indayt^, Azara, Apitnt. \. p. 131 (1802). 



