1. ATTA0I3. 715 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast and abdomen cinnamon. 



a'. Under surface pale cinnamon, with the 



fore-neck ashy, finely lined with black ; 



prevailing colour of upper surfaco grey, 



"with blackish frecklings: under wing- 

 coverts pale cinnamon, with scarcely any 



shade of dusky round the carpal bend . . gayi, p. 715. 

 b'. Under surface dark cinnamon-rufous, the 



blackish cross-markings on the fore-neck 



and sides of body much coarser than in 



A. gayi\ prevailing colour of upper 



surface black, with wavy lines of sandy 



buff; under wing-coverts cinnamon, with 



a good deal of black round the edge. . . . chimborazensis, p. 716. 



b. Breast and abdomen white nialouinus, p. 716. 



1. Attagis gayi. 



Attagis gayi, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 135, pi. 47 (1830) ; id. Traits' d'Orn. 

 p. 522 (1831); Gould in Dancin's Voy. ' Beagle] Birds, p. 117 

 (1841 : Cordilleras of Coquiiubo and Copiapo) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 520 (1845) ; Bridges, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 29 (Tapaquilcha, 

 14,000 ft. ; Bolivia, breeding) ; Gay, Faun. Chil, Zool. i. p. 384 

 (1847); Reichenb. Gall. tab. clxxxi. fig. 1504 (1850); Bp. C. R. 

 xliii. p. 420 (1856) ; Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus. p. 94 (1867); 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 331 (Chili) ; id. $ Salv. Exotic Orn. p. 158 

 (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 20, no. 10052 (1871) ; Scl. $Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Nei.tr. p. 144 (1873); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 557 

 (Junin); id. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 284 (1880); Scl. P. Z. S. 1891, 

 p. 137 (Tarapaca) ; Jafnes, New List Chilian B. p. 11 (1892). 



Attagis lalreillii, Less. " Bull, de Soc." xxv. p. 243 ; id. III. Zool. pi. 11 

 (1830) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 520, pi. 135 (1845) ; Gay, Faun. 

 Chil., Zool. i. p. 385 (1847); Reichenb. GaU.tab. clxxxi. figs. 1555-56 

 (1850) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 420 (1856); Pelz. Reis. Novara, Fog. 

 p. 113 (1865: Chili); Scl. $ Salv. Exotic Orn. p. 158 (1869); 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 20, no. 10053 (1871) ; Scl. # Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 641 ( Bolivia). 



Adxdt. General colour above ashy grey, freckled all over with 

 wavy lines of dusky blackish, sometimes transverse, and more or 

 less sub-marginal and following the outline of the feather on the 

 mantlo and upper back, which parts are blotched with black centres 

 to tho feathers ; wing-coverts more rufous, very coarsely mottled 

 with broad wavy lines of black, the least series blackish ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black, with sandy-rufous margins ; quills 

 light brown, blackish on the outer web and at the tips of the 

 primaries, which are fringed with white round the ends ; secondaries 

 brown, the innermost barred with sandy rufous and freckled near 

 the tips ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers sandy rufous, barred 

 across with blackish; crown of head dusky brown, minutely spotted 

 with huffy white ; eyebrow and sides of face isabclline, the latter 

 minutely dotted with blackish ; the ear-coverts more rufous and 

 streaked with brown ; throat uniform isabelline, rufoscout on the 



