176 AEDEID^. 



Bumf. Ibis, 1878, p. 62 (Buenos Ayres^ ; Scl. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 542 (Medellin) ; Salv. ^- Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 206 (Colombia) ; 



W. A. Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 355 (Recife, breeding) ; Tacz. Om. 



Perou, iii. p. 397 (1884) ; Barrows, Auk, i. p. 271 (1884 : Con- 



cepcion, breeding) ; Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de 



Zamora) ; Scl. Sc Hiidson, Argent. Om. ii. p. 101 (1889) ; Holland, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 205; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. v. p. 150 (1893: 



Matto Grosso). 

 Butorides scapulatus (lapsii), Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 305 



(Ucayali E. ; Santa Cruz}. 

 Butorides virescens (lapsu), Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 746 (Santa Lucia, 



Peru). 

 Butorides striata, Baird, Breiuer, ^ Bidgio. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. 



p. 60, note (1884) : Berl. ^ jhering, Zeitschr. ges. Om. ii. p. 78 



(1885 : Taquara) ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1889, p. 318 (Ucayali) ; id. J.f. 0. 



1892, p. 104 ; Peters, t. c. p. 120 (Curasao) ; Sharije, Bull. B. 0. 



Club, iii. p. xvii (1894). 

 Ocniscus striatus, Heine 4" Beichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 308 



(1890). 



Adult male. Very similar to B. atricapilla and scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable, the only apparent character being that the rufous 

 markings on the throat and fore-neck arc of a deep rusty red or 

 chestnut : " bill blackish bi-own, with a pale greyish-green spot on 

 the lower edge of the under mandible ; lores dark indigo-blue, as 

 well as the vicinity of the eye ; toes bright orange-red ; claws black ; 

 iris brilliant orange-red " {Neuwied). Total length 14-5 inches, 

 culmen 2'-l, wing 6-55, tail 2*2, tarsus 1'8, middle toe and claw I'O. 



Youmj. Eesembles that of B. atricapilla. 



Hah. South America, from Colombia to Ecuador and Peru ; 

 Venezuela, Guiana, and Amazonia to Brazil and the Argentine 

 llepublic, being rarer to the southward. 



a. 9 ad.sk. Medellin, U.S. Colombia (T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



K. Salmon). 



b. Ad. sk. Valle Dupar, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(jP. a. a. Simons). 



c. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



d. Ad.sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C'.^e<f A:- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lei/), 

 e cJ imm. sk. Bartica Grove, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll 



Nov. 2 (H. Whitehj). 

 f. Ad. sk. Island of Mexiana, Dec. (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



B. Wallace). 

 t/-k. Ad. ; /. Juv. Pernambuco ( W. A. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 

 m,n'. Ad. ; o. Juv. Recife (W. A. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 

 p,q,r. A.&.; s,t,u. 'Bahis. {^J. Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Juv. sk. 

 y Ad sk. Chapada, Matto Grosso {Mrs. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. H. Smith), 

 w. (S ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joijner). 

 x-c'. Ad, sk. Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Fry, Esq. 



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