7. HELEOTHEEPTTJS. 593 



as bt''' JnT'f' ^^^f^gUh being longest, the tenth about half 

 rif ^' 1 ^ Y ^^"".^^^ *^'^ ^'"'^ ^°"^ ^'^ ^b°^it equal in length the 

 rest gradually becoming shorter. The tail is somewhat short and 



tile miidW '"-^ "l"l'f ^"^^''' ^^^ "^^^^ ^-^1- «^--^ -" ongt 

 a lit^P 1 r ^:,^^°"* t^i'^e a« l°^g as the lateral toes ; the tars? 

 a little shorter than the middle toe with claw, feathered in front 



RaTe r' TT 'f 1- ?°'^^?F ^^ ^"^"^ ^^-^^ «- nidificat ion 

 iif»!.(7e. Central and Southern Brazil and Argentina. 



1. Heleothreptus anomalus. 



Trir;i *: ' ' , ■ ^"^^'^ ^^"-^ ^'^y- P- 36 (186.5). 



lTltamTfrf''ff-' ^^^'''■J- P-^ (1^40); id. Gen. B. 

 I. p. 4J (i»4/j ; j(/. List Fissir. Brit. Mm v 10(^Mf^\ ■ ff„ r>^. 



(1865); ^^. 0.«. Bras. p. ]o (1862); ft.«^, jfand-l. B. i. p. 60 



Heleothreptus anomalus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 143- id & Sal,, 

 Nomencl.Av. Neotr .. 97 (1873) ; Dumfold, IMs, m! p fe 

 (Buenos Ayres) ; Scl. \- Suds. Argentine Orn.n. p. 16 (ISSD^)'. 



Adult male. Above greyish brown, spotted and dashed with 

 blackish brown, rather boldly along the top of the head and on the 

 scapulars ; lores, an indistinct superciliary stripe, some spots on 

 the neck and in the centres of the wing-co'verts ^^^le fawn^ o our 

 primaries deep blackish brown, with the basal portion rus^y fawn' 

 colour, with large whitish tips to the first five and a small wHtTh 

 ermmal spot to the sixth; rectrices fawn-colour, with wh t sh 

 tips, irregularly barred with blackish, the two central feathers like 

 the back ; beneath, throat and breast deep brown, with fawn- 

 coloured shatt-spots; abdomen pale fawn-colour, irregularly barTed 

 with deep brown, more uniform towards the lower tail-coverts 

 To al length about 7-5 inches, wing 5-2, eighth primary 0-5 longer 

 tail 3, tarsus 0-7, bill just behind the nostrils 0'28. ° ' 



Adult female. Similar in general coloration to the male but the 

 wings are brown, banded with rufous. The females of batterer's 

 t'alltr '''" t°^«l-^ger,the wing measuring 5-4 inches'the 



The female from Quilmes, in Buenos Ayres, is a little more 

 grey, and has distinct whitish tenninal spots to the feathers on 



maturir- ''™'^'' '''"^ "''''''■ ^ ^^^'^^^ *^^'^ ^° ^^ ''°°' °f ^^i" 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



«. 6 ad. sk. [Demerara.] Dr. J. E. Gray ^P-J 



b. 2 ad. sk. L-isanga, Brazil, Jan. 19 (Nat- Soll?CM '''"'''^ 



ferer). 



c. I ad. sk. S. Brazil (Natterer). Salvin-Godman Co 

 «• ¥ feK. Quilmes, provmce of Buenos II. Durnford, Esq 



Apes, March 31. rn 1 ' "i" 



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