654 STEATORNITHIDJ!;. 



Trinidad, p. 65 (1866) ; Koenig-Warth. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 384 (e^p:); 

 Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 165, 1870, p. 779 (Merida), 1878, 

 p. 139 (Cataniarca), 1879, p. 532 (Antioquia) ; Goering, Vargasia, 

 i. p. 124 (1869) ; Grmj, Haiid-l. i. p. 55 (1869) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 

 1873, pp. 463, 526, 630 (anatom.) ; Murie, Ibis, 1873, p. 81 ; 

 Broivn, Cnnoe <§• Camp Life in Brit. Guiana, p. 386 (1876) ; 

 Taczan. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 208, 1882, p. 40 ; id. Orn. Perou, i. 

 p. 200 (1884) ; Stolzmann, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, v. p. 198 

 (1880) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 439; Scl. Ibis, 1890, p. 335. 

 Steatornis caripensis peruvianus, Taczan. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 106. 



Adult. Upper surface chestnut ; head and neck with small trian- 

 gular white spots ; back, rump, scapulars, and secondaries with 

 darker and paler cross-bars ; the median vipper wing-coverts with 

 large rounded white spots, bordered by a black ring ; some white 

 spots on the lateral upper tail-coverts ; shafts and inner webs of 

 the primaries dark brown, lighter towards their tips ; outer webs 

 chestnut with white spots, bordered laterally with dark brown ; 

 rectrices chestnut, with narrow black bars and vermiculations ; 

 lower surface pale chestnut, generally more or less greyish, and 

 with two, or sometimes three, more or less distinctly rhomboid 

 white spots surrounded with black on each feather. 



These birds vary greatly in size and depth of colour, but T cannot 

 make out any local races or sexual differences. Small specimens 

 occur elsewhere than in Peru. 



Total length about 17 to 20 inches, wing 11-5 to 12-5, tail 8 to 

 to 8-8, tarsus 0-6 to 0-7, culmen 1-2 to 1-4. 



Hab. Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 

 Gray erroneously gave the island of Guadeloupe as one of the 

 localities inhabited by the Guacharo. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. S. America. Tweeddale Coll. 



d, e,f. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



r/. Ad. St. Trinidad. Hon. Arthur Gordon 



[P.l. 



k. Ad. St. Trinidad. Mrs. Wright [P.]. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Roraima, Oct., Nov. (H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Whitelg). 



I. 2 ad. sk. Bogota {G. Croicther). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. 2 sk. Santa Helena, Colombia {T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



K. Salmon), 



n Ad. sk. Saravacu, Ecuador {C. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



leg). 



o. S (ad.) sk. Ninabamba, Peru ( rrrc-fwojcsA:?). Sclater Coll. 



