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Consp. i. p. 479 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 132 (1850) ; 

 Tschudi # Cab. Faun. Peruan. p. 32 (1855). 

 Zonotrichia pileata, Scl. R Z. S. 1858, pp. 454, 552, 1859, p. 140 ; 

 id. 8p Sato. Ibis, 1859, p. 18 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 76 ; Cab. J.f. 

 O. 1860, p. 411 ; Scl. Cat, Amer. B. p. 113 (1862) ; Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 103 (1868) ; Frantz.J.f. 0. 1869, p. 301 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 93, no. 7389 (1870) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190 ; 

 Hudson, t. c. p. 549; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 229 (1871) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, pp. 127, 328 ; Hamilton, t. c. p. 303 ; Scl. #• Salv. Xomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 52 ; Bumf. Ibis, 

 1876, p. 158, 1877, p. 172 ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 57 ; Tacz. 

 P. Z. S. 1879, p. 230 ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 507, 606 ; 

 Salvin $ Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 200 ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 28 ; 

 Salvin § Godm. t, c. p. 122 ; Salv. t. c. p. 355 ; Durnf. t. c. p. 416 ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 199; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 337; Salvin, 

 Cat. Strickl, Coll. p. 230 (1882) ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 600 ; 

 Salvin, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 432 ; Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. 

 pp. 494, 500 (1883) ; Berlepsch fy Jhering in Madardsz's Zeitschr. 

 ges. Orn. ii. p. 124 (1885) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 216 ; id. ty Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 370 (1886); Tacz. Orn. Perou, ii. 

 p. 45 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, streaked rather broadly 

 with black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform ashy 

 brown ; lesser wing-coverts dull ashy grey, with dusky bases ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish brown, edged with ashy brown, 

 and narrowly tipped with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, edged with paler ashy brown, slightly more 

 rufescent on the secondaries, especially the inner ones, the primaries 

 narrowly margined with ashy whitish ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers brown, edged with ashy brown, whitish on the outer ones ; 

 crown of head slaty gre) 7 , with a broad line of black from the base 

 of the forehead to the sides of the nape, followed by a very distinct 

 white eyebrow ; sides of neck bright chestnut, a shade of which 

 encircles the head, separating the latter from the neck; feathers 

 round eye and ear-coverts black, mottled with a few white dots 

 below the eye, the ear-coverts with a transverse band of ashy ; 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface of body white, shaded with ashy 

 on the breast, the flanks more distinctly brown ; a black patch on 

 each side of the fore neck, followed by a large patch of bright chest- 

 nut like the sides of the neck ; thighs and under tail-coverts ashy 

 whitish, the latter pale brown in the centre; axillaries brown, 

 slightly washed with olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts dark brown, 

 with whitish edges ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner webs : 

 " bill brown in December, or yellowish, with the upper mandible 

 browner in September ; feet brownish flesh-colour ; iris dark brown " 

 (Jelski). Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-6, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 5-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2 - 7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Spotted like the young of an Accentor, which it strongly 

 resembles in appearance. General colour fulvous-brown, the feathers 

 centred with black ; the lower back and rump spotted, but less 



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