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Adult male. General colour above blackish with a gloss of olive- 

 green, varied with complete or interrupted bars of sandy butf; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dusky blackish, with more 

 or less distinct white bars ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater 

 series vermiculatcd with sandy buff on their outer edges ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externally slaty grey, 

 notched with rufous or white spots and tipped with white ; the 

 .secondaries with interrupted white bars, the innermost like the 

 back ; tail-feathers slaty black, glossed with green, tipped with 

 white, the outer ones with interrupted white bars ; crown of head 

 .and neck black, plentifully barred with sandy buff; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and cheeks black, mottled with buff spots ; fore part of 

 cheeks with a patch of white feathers extending forwards beyond 

 the line of the eye ; sides of throat bare, like the lores ; centre of 

 throat feathered, white ; remainder of throat white, broadly streaked 

 with pale brown and light rufous, the lateral feathers barred with 

 black and white down the sides of the neck and the sides of the 

 fore-neck ; remainder of breast and abdomen pale tawny rufous, 

 with a few obsolete bars of blackish ; the sides of the body, flanks, 

 and under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty black, barred distinctly 

 with white ; quills ashy below, notched and barred with white on 

 the inner web. Total length 28 inches, culmen 3-5, wing 12-5, 

 tail 5*1, tarsus 3-65. 



Toung. Black, with large spots and bars of tawny rufous ; lower 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black, barred with Avhite ; 

 crown of head and neck deep foxy rufous, barred with black ; wing- 

 coverts barred like the back ; quills as in the adult, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back ; sides of face pale tawny, with scarcely 

 any black markings ; throat white ; lower throat and neck and sides 

 of chest tawny buff, with black bars ; remainder of under surface of 

 body white, with a few black bars ; sides of body and flanks black, 

 barred with white ; under tail-coverts white, with a black bar at 

 the tip ; under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty black, barred with 

 white. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil. 



a. c? ad. ; b. Juv. sk. Rio de Janeiro. Alex. Fry, Esq. [P.]. 



£. Juv. sk. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. Juv. sk. [S. America.] Lieut. Maw [P.]. 



5. Tigrisoma salmoni. 



Tigrisoma fasciatum {nee Such), Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 32, no. 10163 

 (1871). 



Tigrisoma salmoni, Scl. 8f Salv. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 38 (Medellin) ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 242 (Tambillo) ; Scl. ^S' Salv. t. c. p. 542 

 (Antioquia) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 212 (Callacate, Mav), 1832, 

 p. 47 (Huambo); Berl. ^ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 577 (Chimbo, 

 W. Ecuador) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 402 (1886 : Huambo, Tarn- 

 billo, Callacate). 



Botaurus salmoni, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 251. 



