258 piciD^. 



Adult male. Back, rump, upper tail-coyerts, and scapulars barred 

 black and white ; wings and their coverts brownish black, the latter 

 as well as both webs of the quills spotted with white ; shafts brown ; 

 tail black narrowly barred with white, the bars on the central 

 feathers five in number and half the width of the interspaces ; shafts 

 black ; nasal plumes brownish white ; forehead and crown black 

 witli hair-like stri])es of white ; occiput scarlet ; nape and hind neck 

 black with a few white stripes ; sides of the face and neck white, the 

 car-coverts striped black and brown, with a black postauricular stripe 

 spotted -with white, and an elongated black malar stripe varied with 

 white anteriorly, the side of the neck striped with black; from the 

 chin to the under tail-coverts white, slightly fulvescent below, striped 

 with black, the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts with bar-like 

 spots and bars of black ; iinder wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 the lower series of the former having a few rounded black spots. 

 Total length (r5 inches, culmen 0"95, wing 3'05, tail 2-3, tarsus 0'7 ; 

 toes (without claws)— outer anterior 0'45, outer posterior 0-5, inner 

 anterior 0*4, inner posterior 0'2. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of the 

 red occipital band and the white stripes on the forehead and crown, 

 the forehead being brown with a few stripe-like spots of a paler 

 shade at its base, the entire crown, occiput, and nape being brownish 

 black. Total length G-3 inches, culmen 0-78, wing 3-55, tail 2'2, 

 tarsus (>7. 



YoutKj {sex ?). Differs from the adult of both sexes in having the 

 whole of the feathers on the top of the head and on the occiput tipped 

 with dull red ; on the forehead a few stripe-like spots of white ; the 

 white on the face and neck dingy ; the under surface of the body 

 diugy white and very considerably varied with black, the chest and 

 breast having broad and irregular stripes, the abdomen being spotted, 

 and the sides of the body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 barred with black ; the upper mandilile brownish black, the lower 

 mandible pale brown with a blackish-brown tip. 



Huh. Peru (Tscliudi), Bolivia, the Argentine llepublic, and through 

 Chili south to the island of Chiloe. 



</. cJad.sk. Chili. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



b,c. $ ad. sk. Chili, Jan. 1837 (C. Danmi). Gould Coll. 



d, e. d 2 ad. ; Chili. Sclater Coll. 



/ Juv. sk. 



f/, h. 1$ ad. ; ?'. Chili. Sahin-Godman Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Coquimbo, Chili, Nov. 1881 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. H. Markham). 



I. tS ad. sk. Chilian Andes. Tweeddale Coll. 



m. f? ad. St. Valparaiso. Sir W. Burnett and 



Capt. Fitzroy [P.], 



n. iS ad. sk. Island of Chiloe. Zoological Society. 



0. c? ad. sk. Bolivia. T. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



p, q. $ ad. et Cosquin, Cordova, Arg. Rep., Sclater Coll. 



imm. sk. Aug. {E. TV. White). 



r. 5 ad. sk. Eiocour Coll. 



