33. URUBITINGA. 219 



Adult. Head and neck all round pure white, the latter with a 

 delicate shade of greyish ; rest of upper surface dark slate-colour, 

 with a few more or less concealed spots and bars of white on the 

 inner web of the feathers, more distinct on the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, the latter strongly barred across with white, 

 and mottled with the same on the outer web ; primaries blackish, 

 the primary coverts and secondaries dark slaty, with almost imper- 

 ceptible white tips ; tail slaty black at base, white for apical half, 

 with a distinct subterminal black band ; the under surface of tail 

 white, the black basal part indicated by greyish bars on inner web, 

 but the subterminal band very distinct ; entire under surface of 

 body, including under wing- and tail-coverts, pure white ; inner 

 web of quills white at base, the secondaries with greyish bars. 

 Total length 20 inches, culraen 1-6, wing 12-4, tail 7-6, tarsus 3-2. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the feathers of the head 

 and neck mesially streaked with slaty black, the wing-coverts tipped 

 with white, and the white spots on the inner webs of dorsal feathers 

 more conspicuous. 



Hab. Southern Brazil. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Bahia. Dr. Wucherer [C], 



e. Ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



d. Ad. st. Bogota. Purehased. 



9. UruMtinga kaupi. 



Leucoptemis kaupi, £p. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 481, 



Leucopternis kuhlii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 19 (1850, lapsti). 



Buteo kaupi, Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 37 (1855). 



Leucoptemis superciliaris, Peh. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xliv. p. 10 (1861) ; 



id. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. 140; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1807, p. 589; 



iid. Ex. Orn. p. 75, pi. xxxviii. (1867), et p. 122 (1868) ; Pelz. Orn. 



£ras. pp. 3, 395 (1871); Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 242; Scl. ^ Salv. 



Nomencl. p. 119 (1873). 

 Asturina superciliaris, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Asturinse, p. 12 (1862), 

 Buteo kuhlii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 8 (1869). 



Adult. Above slaty black ; over the eye a broad white stripe ; 

 nape and hind neck streaked with white, with which the feathers 

 are narrowly margined ; lores and feathers round the eye, above the 

 ear-coverts, black ; feathers of interscapulary region with concealed 

 white bases ; quills dark brown, crossed with blackish bars, more 

 distinct on inner web, which is ashy grey underneath, iuclining to 

 white near the base ; tail black, tipped with ashy brown, with a 

 band of white across the middle, the outer feather varied with white 

 at the base of inner web ; sides of face and of neck white, narrowly 

 streaked with black ; under surface white, with a few narrow streaks 

 of black on the sides of chest ; under wing-coverts white. Total 

 length 15-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 8'7, tail 6'2, tarsus 2-4. 



Hab. Brazil, in the vicinity of Para. 



n, b. Ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



