61. LEPTODON. 333 



indication of a Avhite line ; throat slat}' blue, like the sides of the 

 face ; rest of the under surface slaty blue, banded narrowly with 

 white ; under wing- and tail-coverts white, with only a few nearly 

 obsolete indications of narrow brownish cross bars ; bill dark horn- 

 black, yellowish on under mandible ; feet deep yellow, nails black. 

 Total length 19 inches, culmen 2-5, wing 12-3, tail 9-2, tarsus 1'6. 



Hah. Peru and Bolivia. 

 (J. Ad. St. Peru. Prof. Macdonald [P.]. 



3. Leptodon wilsoni. 



Cymindis wilsonii. Cass. Journ. Ac. Phihtd. 4to, i. p. 21, pi. 7 (1847) ; 



Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 21 (1850) : Gra;/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 28 (1809) ; Scl. 



Sf Sah\ Xomencl. p. 122 (1873). 

 Regerliiuus wilsonii, Kaup, Arch. f. Naiurij. 1850, p. 40 j Gundl. J. 



f. O. 1872, p. OCiO. 

 Regerhinus uuciaatus, Cah. J. f. O. 1854, p. Ixxx. 



Male. Body above entirely dark brown, paler on the head ; be- 

 neath white, every feather from the chin to the under tail-coverts 

 crossed by several bars of bright rufous, and these colours extending 

 upwards into a collar around the neck ; 4th, 5th, and Gth primaries 

 longest and nearly equal, external webs nearly black, internal webs 

 of outer primaries white at base, and for nearly half their length, re- 

 maining part reddish inclining to chestnut, every primary (on its 

 inner web) having two irregularly shaped black marks, and tipped 

 with black. Tail of the same colour as the back, but paler, white 

 at base, and crossed by about four broad bars, which are nearly 

 black, the second bar from the tip accompanied by a narrow, rather 

 indistinct bar of rufous ; tip of tail narrowly edged with white. 

 BiU very large, larger than that of any other species of this genus, 

 yellowish white, inclining to bluish horn-colour at base. Total 

 length 17 inches. (Cassin, I. c.) 



Female. Body above entirely light bluish ash-colour, paler on the 

 head, beneath barred with the same, the bars ha%-ing a ferruginous 

 tinge. (Cassin, I. c.) 



Hub. Cuba. 



4. Leptodon cayennensis. 



Cavenne Osprey, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 47 (1781). 



Petit Autour de Cavenue, Buf. BL Enl. i. pi. 473. 



Falco cavemiensis, G;«. S. N. i. p. 263 (1788); Temm. PI. Col. i. 



pi. 270 (1824). 

 Falco palliatus, Max. in Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 204 (1823) ; id. Beitr. 



Xaturg. Bras. iii. p. 148 (1830). 

 Cymindis cavennensis, Cuv. Begne An. i. p. 319 (1817); Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 25"'(1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 20 (1850) ; StricM. Orn. Syn. 



p. 128 (1855); Bunn. Th. Bras. ii. p. 107 (1856); Sc/d. Mm. P.-B. 



Pernes, p. 9 (18G2) ; Leaf. Ois. Trinid. p. 34 (1866); Gray, Hand-l. 



i. p. 27 (18G9) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 5, 398 (187l) ; Scl. ^- Salv. 



Nomencl.^. 122 (1873) ; Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 136 (1873). 

 Asturiua cyanopns, Bonn, ct Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1261 (1823). 

 Astur cavennensis, Spix, Av. Bras. i. pi. 8 c (1824). 

 Buteo palliatus, Less. Man. d'Om. i. p. 103 (1828). 



