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Adult. General colour above glossy brown ; the wiug-coverts 

 dark brown, edged with whity brown ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, with scarcely any paler margins, 

 excepting on the secondaries, the innermost of which ai'e paler 

 brown externally, M-ith whity-brown margins near the tips ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back, with slight indications of paler edges, 

 more or less obsolete ; tail-feathers blackish brown, with a narrow 

 fringe of whity brown along the edge towards the tip of the inner 

 ■web ; crown of head brown, the forehead blackish, the rest of the 

 crown slightly mottled with blackish centres to the feathers ; lores 

 dusky brown : ear-coverts uniform brown ; cheeks paler and more 

 ashy brown ; throat ashy white ; fore neck and chest ashy brown 

 in the centre, darker brown on the sides as well as on the sides of 

 the body and flanks, the feathers on the lower flanks being white 

 externally, brown internally ; breast, abdomen, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts white ; in the centre of the breast a longitudinal streak 

 of dark brown, the feathers forming which are dark brown on the 

 inner and whitish on the outer webs : axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts brown, with whitish tips to the feathers ; quills dusky brown 

 below, more ashy brown along the inner face of the quills : " legs 

 blackish brown ; bill dark horn greyish brown ; iris dark '' (Neu- 

 ivied). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 55, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus 0'55. 



Ohs. Many specimens are more mottled than the bird described, 

 and are apparently young birds or else in winter plumage. The 

 whole of the upper surface is paler than in the adult, and there are 

 more or less distinct remains of ashj'-brown margins to the whole 

 of the back, these edgings being very distinct on the upper tail- 

 coverts and the wing-covcrts ; the brown chest-band becomes wholly 

 obscured with ashy-whitish tips to the feathers. The last-named 

 character looks like winter plumage, but the livery of the young 

 bird would probably be very similar. 



Ilah. The greater part of South America from Bolivia and the 

 Argentine Hepublic northwards to Colombia and Guiana. 



a. Ad. sli. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela Sclater Collectitn. 



( Goering) . 



h. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. Bogota. Sclater Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Corentyn Eiver, British Sclater Collection. 



Guiaiia, Oct. {Im Thin-n). 



e. (S ad.sk. Yqiiitos, E.Peru, June (^. Sclater Collection. 



mdtely). 



f. 5 ad. sk. Yquitos, Aug. {H. W.). Sclater Collection. 

 y,/i. (5' ad.; /. 2 ad.sk. Yquitos, E. Peru, Aug. 14, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1878 (//. Whitvly). [P.]. 



k. cJ ad. sk. Peru, June 21 (H. Whitebj). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



I. (S ad. sk. Upper Ucnvali, May 31 (E. R. B. Sharpe, Etq. 



Bcirfldt)'. [P.]. 



m. 5 ad.sk. Upper Ucavali, Aug. 20 {E. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Barthtt): Esq. [P.]. 



n. S ad. Upper Ucavali, Sept. 5 {E. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Burtktt}'. [P.]. 



