32. ^GIALIXIS. 289> 



Rica) ; Hartert, Ibis, L893, p. 335 (Bonaire) ; Aplin, Ibis, 1894, 



p. 206 (Uruguay, Dec). 

 . Egialitia nivosa (wee Cass.), Satan, Ibis, 1866, p. 196 (Chiapam). 

 .•Egialitis gracilis, Cab. J.f. O. 1872, p. 158; Reichen. J.f. O. 1885, 



Taf . vi. tigs. 3 a, 8 6. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, varied with rufous 

 margins to all the feathers ; scapulars like the back; rump and 

 central upper tail-coverts dark sepia-brown, with rufous margins to 

 the feathers ; sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts pure 

 white ; wing-coverts like the back, the inner marginal coverts dark 

 brown, forming a band on the top of the wing ; greater coverts 

 tipped with white, forming a narrow wing-bar ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts dark brown, with white tips ; quills ashy brown, 

 blackish along the outer webs and at the tips, secondaries with 

 white tips and with a good deal of white on the inner webs, the 

 long inner secondaries brown with rufous margins like the back ; 

 the six centre tail-feathers dark brown with white tips, the next 

 ones ashy brown, dark brown on the inner web and white at the 

 tips, the outer feathers white ; crown of head and hind-neck, as well 

 as the sides of the latter, dark cinnamon-rufous, separated by a broad 

 black band from the white forehead, which extends over and round 

 the eye ; a distinct black loral streak ; sides of face white ; upper 

 part of ear-coverts rufous like the head ; throat and entire under 

 surface of body pure white, with a black collar across the fore-neck, 

 widening out on the sides of the latter ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pure white ; quill-lining ashy grey : " bill blackish ; feet 

 whitish red : iris greyish brown " (Neuivied) : " bill black ; feet 

 flesh-colour ; iris brown " (L. Fraser). Total length 6-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 4-25, tail 2*15, tarsus 1, middle toe and claw 

 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but not quite so much rufous 

 on the upper surface. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-1, 

 tail 1-95, tarsus 1. 



Huh. South America, ranging northwards into Mexico. Island 

 of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. 



«. $ ad. sk. [w. Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



87]. Dec. (M. TrujUlo). 



b. $ ad. sk. [w. La Antigua, Vera Cruz, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 8-9]. Sept. (M. Trujillo). 



c. Ad. sk. [w. 3-9]. Chiapam, Guatemala (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 d~y- <5 ? a d- sk. Momotombo, Nicaragua, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. B. Richardson). 

 h. $ ad. sk. Grenada, July {D. TV. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smith). 

 >'. Ad.sk. [w.3-851. Bogota. Seebohm Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. [w. 37]. Tntac, Ecuador (C. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 

 I. Ad.sk. [w. 375]. Peru. Seebohm Coll. 



m. tf ad. sk. [w. Laguna de Valencia, Vene- Seebohm Coll. 

 ' ■"' . zuela, Sept. 22 (A. 



Goering). 



