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inner secondaries olive-brown like tiie back; tail-feathers black; 

 crown of head ashy grey, becoming clearer and more slaty blue on 

 the hind neck and upper mantle; lores and feathers over the eye 

 ashy : sides of face and ear-coverts light ashy grey ; cheeks and 

 throat white ; sides of neck ashy grey ; remainder of under surface 

 from the fore neck downwards rufous ; abdomen isabelline ; lower 

 flanks brown, washed with grey; thighs pale ashy; under tail- 

 coverts black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish, with 

 narrow white or rufous cross bars; edge of wing rufous. Total 

 length 12-5 inches, culmen 1'7, wing 6-2, tail 2-2, tarsus 2-05, 

 middle toe and claw 2-05. 

 llab. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Bahia {Dr. Litxchnath). Ralvin-Godman Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Bahia (Dr. Wuchvrer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. St. [Bra;iil.] Old Coll. 



2. Aramides wolfi. 



Aramides wolfi, Berl. Sf Tacz. R Z. S. 1883, p. 576 (Chimljd, 

 W. Ecuador). 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown ; scapulars like the 

 back ; lower back and rump reddish brown ; upper tail-covcrts 

 black ; wing-coverts like tlio back ; bastard-wiug and ])rimary- 

 coverts dull chestnut, inclining to dusky olive at the ends; quills 

 chestnut, dusky brown at the ends ; inner secondaries reddish brown, 

 externally olive; tail-feathers black; crown of head light grey, 

 becoming tinged witli vinous on the nape; hind neck %-inous brown, 

 inclining to chestnut towards the mantle ; lores, sides of face, and 

 ear-coverts ashy grey ; throat ashy white ; sides of neck and fore 

 neck vinous brown ; breast oclireous olive, washed with rcddisii 

 brown ; abdomen blackish ; lower tlanks black, mixed with brown ; 

 thighs vinous brown ; under tail-coverts black ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries chestnut, with black bars, indistinct on the former, 

 but more distinct upon the latter ; quills below chestnut, with 

 dusky tips. Total length 1 l-o inches, culmen 2-2, wing 7*0, tail 2-7, 

 tarsus 2-8, middle too and claw 2-(). 



Of the two specimens in the Salvin-Godman Collection, there is 

 a curious difference to note in the colour of the tliighs ; in the bird 

 described they are vinous brown, but in the other blackish. 

 J lab. Ecuador. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Balzar Mountains, Ecuador Salvin-Godm.in Coll. 



{IlliHffworth). 



