20() FALC0NTD,?5. 



Astiu- magnirostris, D'Oib. Voy. Am. Merid. Ois. p. 91(1847) ; Hartl. 



Ind. Azara, p. 2 (1847). 

 Falco gularis, Licht. in Mus. Berol., unde 

 Eupornis gularis, Licht. No7>iencl. p. 3 (1854, descr. nidla). 

 Asturina pucherani, J. 8,- E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 350 ; 



Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 133, et Ex. Orn. pi. Lxxxix. (1869), 



et Nomencl. p. 118 (1873). 

 Asturina gularis, Sehl. litis. P.-B. Asturinse, p. 4 (1862). 

 Astur pucherani, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 30 (1869). 



Adult. Above brown, some of the wing-coverts margined with 

 pale rufous, probably the remains of immaturity, the outermost 

 upper tail-coverts fulvous, barred with rufous ; primary coverts 

 rufous, mottled and banded near the base, and broadly tipped with 

 dark brown ; quills deep chestnut, barred and tipped with dark 

 brown, the secondarie.^ externally brown, the innermost uniform 

 brown, like the back, inclining to dark brown near their tips ; 

 inner surface of wing creamy rufous, inclining to chestnut towards 

 the tips of the feathers, the primaries externally creamy rufous 

 near the base, forming rather a conspicuous mark on the wing, the 

 two outermost primaries for the most part brown, rufous only near 

 the base, and distinctly barred with dark brown ; tail pale rufous, 

 crossed with five bands of dark brown, the two basal ones indistinct, 

 and not strictly continuous ; head and neck all round a little darker 

 brown than the back, blackish on the cheeks and above the eye ; 

 lores white, the throat also streaked with white ; rest of the under 

 surface buffy white, very narrowly and indistinctly barred with 

 pale rufous, almost obsolete on the chest ; under tail-coverts uni- 

 form bufiy white ; under wing-coverts pale rufous. Total length 

 18 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 10-9, tail 8-2, tarsus 2-65. 



Young. Above brown, the feathers edged with fulvous, the upper 

 tail-coverts buff, broadly ban-ed with brown ; wings much as in the 

 adult, but paler rufous, especially the exterior patch on the pri- 

 maries, which is light buff, barred with blackish ; tail with five 

 bands of dark brown, as in the adult, but all broad and clearly de- 

 fined, the basal bar very distinct, the interspaces cinereous, the 

 lower ones approaching to rufous ; the crown, and especially the 

 hind neck streaked with light buff; a distinct eyebrow and the 

 sides of the face also buff, narrowly streaked with dark brown ; 

 upper margin of ear-coverts entirely dark brown ; under surface of 

 body buffy white, the throat very narrowly, the chest very broadly 

 streaked with pale brown, the latter with a slight wash of rufous ; 

 lower breast crossed with bars of pale rufous, those in the centre of 

 the body heart-shaped, the thighs buff, thickly barred with rufous ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white, sparsely marked with 

 brown bars, the former also sUghtly washed with pale rufous. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 



a. Juv. sk. South America. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. [P.], 



h. Juv. St. South America. Purchased. 



c. Ad. St. Bolivia. Mr. Biydges [C.]. 



