i. BTTRTPTGA. 241 



(1865 : Cayenne) ; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 199 (Upper 

 Ucayali), 18G7, p. 079 (Pebas); Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 300, 465 

 (1871 : Goyabeira, Engenlio do Pari, ViUa Maria, Caifara, En- 

 genho do Gania, Matogrosso, Rio Negi'O, ViUa dos Manaos, 

 Cajutuba); Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 308 (Rio Javarri, 

 Ca'shiboya); iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 141 (1873); Berlepsch, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 440 (Venezuela); Blasius, J. f. 0. 1885, p. 417 

 (Bolivia) ; Sahin, Ibis, 188(;, p. 177 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa) ; 

 Taczan. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 388 (188G) ; W. L. Sclater, Ihis, 1887, 

 p. 317 (British Guiana) ; Berlepsck, J. f. 0. 1889, p. 320 (Yuri- 

 maguas) ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 107 (1889: 

 Bolivia). 



Helias phala)noides, Vieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. v. p. 423 (1816) ; 

 id. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1152 (1823). 



Eurypyga Solaris, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 26, no. 10096 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, regularly banded with 

 black, the light part of the back and scapulars being somewhat 

 ashy with blackish bars or vermiculatious : the upper back and 

 mantle rather more ruddy brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 broadly barred with ashy black, and more narrowly with white ; 

 the tail also similarly coloured and banded throughout, and crossed 

 with two twin bands, the upper one chestnut and the lower one 

 black ; lesser and median wing-coverts dark ashy freckled with 

 black, and having large ovate spots near the ends, taking the 

 form of a subterminal band on the median series ; bastard-wing 

 bluish grey, black at the base of the feathers, and banded with 

 black and white, the tips being narrow and white ; primary- 

 coverts golden bronze, ashy towards the ends, the outer ones blue- 

 grey, with white bands near the tip and chestnut bands near the 

 base ; the greater coverts golden bronze crossed with dark bars, 

 and with greyish-white tips, aU the light parts being freckled 

 with blackish ; quills golden bronze freckled vnlh dusky bars and 

 mottlings, the tips grey with a subterminal black band ; second 

 primary witli a chestnut base to the outer web, the first four 

 primaries with a white spot on the outer web where the two ashy- 

 grey bars cross the feathers, all but the first primary with a broad 

 chestnut band ; the inner primaries and inner secondaries with a 

 broad chestnut base followed by a broad black band, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back ; crown of head and nape black ; lores 

 and sides of face also black as well as a second streak along the 

 cheeks to the sides of the neck ; from behind the eye a white line of 

 feathers nearly encircling the crown ; above the lores a streak of 

 sandy buff"; from the angle of the mouth a broad white streak to 

 the sides of the neck ; throat and malar region white ; neck rufoxia 

 with minute black cross lines, tlie neck in front being tawny rufous 

 skirted on each side by a black line, and slightly mottled with 

 minute black spots ; fore neck and chest tawny rufous, blotched 

 with black centres to the feathers, and mottled with bars and cross 

 lines of black ; centre of breast and abdomen white ; sides of body, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts ochrcous buff, barred with blackish, 

 less distinctly on the latter ; under wing-coverts and axillariea 



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