694 FKINGILLIDJE. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4*5 inches, cul- 

 men 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1*6, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Differs from the adults in being much browner, tinged 

 with rufous on the crown, which has an indication of a pale median 

 ashy streak ; edges of wing-coverts and of quills rufescent, the 

 median and greater coverts pale sandy buff at the ends ; an ashy- 

 whitish line above the eye ; sides of face pale isabelline ; throat 

 white ; rest of under surface pale sulphur-yellow, streaked with 

 small triangular blackish spots on the fore neck and breast. 



Hab. Upper Amazonia, Peru, and Bolivia. 



a. cJad.sk. Gualaquiza, Ecuador (L. Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Ecuador. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Jinia, Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 dAd.sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e. cJad. sk. Cosnipata, Peru, Sept. 15, 1868 Sclater Coll. 



{H. Whitely). 

 f. d imm.sk. La Merced, Peru, July 1876 Sclater Coll. 



Off. w.). 



o. Juv.sk. Saravacu, Upper Amazons, March Sclater Coll. 



1877 (H. W.). 

 h. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Upper Amazons, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1877 (.ff. W.). 

 i. 2 ad. sk. Yurimaguas, Feb. 26, 1881 (Stater Sclater Coll. 



mann). 

 k. J ad. sk. Upper Ucayali, Sept. 5, 1865. E. Bartlett, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 /. J ad. sk. Lower Ucayali. E. Bartlett, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 m. cj ad. sk. Nauta. E. Bartlett, Esq. 



n. Ad. sk. Bolivia. W. Bridges, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 o. Ad. sk. Bolivia (Bridges). Sclater Coll. 



8. Ammodromus petenicus. 



Ammodromus petenicus, Salvin, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 189 ; id. Ibis, 1866, 



p. 193. 

 Coturniculus (?) petenicus, Ridgio. Ibis, 1884, p. 44. 

 Coturniculus petenicus, Salvin ty Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Ares, i. 



p. 384, pi. 28. fig. 2 (1886). 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above blackish 

 brown, the feathers streaked by means of ashy-brown margins, 

 which have also a slight rufescent tinge, especially on the lower 

 back and rump ; lesser and median coverts dark brown, edged with 

 ashy brown and slightly tinged with olive-yellow ; greater coverts 

 dark brown, edged with ashy brown, but with a strong subterminal 

 rufous shade ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown, edged 

 with ashy whitish ; quills dark brown, edged with ashy brown, the 

 secondaries with dull rufous, like the inner greater coverts ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the rump ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with 

 ashy, before which is a shade of rufous ; crown of head like the 



