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FAtCONIDiE. 



innermost entirely brown, like the back, all tbe quills barred above 

 with blackish, broader but more indistinct on the secondaries ; lower 

 upper tail-coverts creamy buff, as is also the taU at the base ; tail- 

 feathers alternately barred with black and creamy white, tipped 

 with the latter colour, with an ashy shade overspreading the whitish 

 bars ; head and neck creamy buff, the latter slightly washed with 

 rufous ; the crown and nape streaked with dark brown centres to 

 the feathers, the forehead and a broad eyebrow uniformly creamy 

 buff, as are also the sides of the face, except the upper margin of 

 the ear-coverts, which is brown; under surface of the body rich 

 creamy buff, all the feathers of the breast and abdomen broadly 

 streaked down the centre with dark brown ; throat, under wing- 

 and tail-coverts unspotted. 



Obs. A specimen in the collection shows the progress towards 

 maturity, in the disappearance of the rufous mottling on the upper 

 surfaces, whUe a uniform black shade is spreading over the bird 

 both above and below ; the thighs rufous ; on the tail two ashy 

 brown bands, the basal one, however, becoming obsolete. 



Hab. Brazil, Peru, and Columbia. 



a. Juv. sk. Trinidad. 



b. Ad. St. Brazil. Purchased. 



c. Ad. st. Brazil. 



d. 5juv. st. Caracas. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



31. BUSARELLUS, 



Busarellus, Lafr. m D' Orb. Bid. tTHist. Nat. ii. pp. 785, Type. 



786 (1842) B. nigrieollis. 



lelithyoborus, Kmip, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 76 B. nigrieollis. 



Hind toe of Busarellus iiigricolUs, to show spicules. 

 Range. Brazil, Amazonia, and Guiana. 



