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Adult. General colour above olive-browu, mottled with black 

 bases to the scapulars and the feathers of the lower back and rump, 

 the inner secondaries also black, broadly margined with olive- 

 brown ; head more ashy brown than the back ; sides of face and 

 under surface of body slaty g'rey, more dusky on the lower flanks ; 

 under tail-coverts blackish, with sandy -brown margins : " bill dark 

 green — bright blue and scarlet at the base ; legs vermilion ; iris 

 bright red" (W. H. Hudson). Total length lO-o inches, culmen 2, 

 wing 4-95, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-15, middle toe and claw 1"9. 



Huh. From Southern Brazil and Argentina to Mendoza and 

 Central Peru. 



«, h. Ad. et juv. Brazil. 

 sk. 



c. Ad. sk. Montevideo. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Eelgrano, Buenos Ayres, Oct. 



e. Ad. ik. Alvear, Buenos Ayres. 



/'. 5 ^tl. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayres, 



Oct. ( W. H. Hudson). 



(J. (S ad. sk. Lomas de Zamora, Xov. 8 



(F. Withington). 



h. (S ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Aug. 2 



{E. W. White). 



i. 2 ad. sk. Pampas Argentinas (Lcyhohl). 



k. Juv. sk. Mendoza {LeyLohl). 



I. 2 ad. &k. Junin, Peru (Jelski). 



M. Claussen [P.]. 



Sir W. Burnett and 



Adm. Fitzroy [P.]. 



II. Durriford, Etq. 



[C.]. 

 11. Durnford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sclater CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Warsaw Museum 



[P.]. 



Subsp. a. Limnopardalus sanguinolentus. 



Eallus sanguinolentus, Sicahis. An. in Menag. p. 3.35 (1837) ; 



Daricin, Voy. '■Beagle^ Birds, p. 133 (1841: Valyaraiso) ; 



Bridqes, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 108 ; Grmj, List Grallce Bnt. Mm. 



p. 115 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 594 (1846) ; I'arrell, P. Z. S. 



1847, p. 54 (egg) ; Pp. C. P. -xliii. p. 598 (1856). 

 Eallus ca;sius (nee iSpi.i), Tsclmdi, Faun. Peruan. p. 300 (1844-46) ; 



Cass. U.S. F.apl. E.vped. Gi/liss, p. 195 (1865 : Chili) ; Sc/d. Miis. 



Pays-Bas, Ealli, p. 8 (1865) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 316 (1886 : 



Lima). 

 Eallus bicolor, Gay, Faun. Chilen. i. p. 434, pi. 10 (1847). 

 Eallus ricordi. Pp. C. P. xliii. p. 598 (1856). 

 Eallus rythirhyr.chus (wfc V.), Scl. S^- Salv. P. Z. S. ]8()7, p. Q£0 



(Arequipa) ; Ouit. Miss. &'ci. Cap Horn, Zool. vi. Ois p. 13i,pl. ii. 



(1891). 



Adult maJe. General colour- above uniform olive-brown, rather 

 darker and more chocolate on the ower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills chocolate-brown ; inner secondaries more olive 

 like the back; tail-leathers dark chocolate-biown, with lighter 



