2. NOTHOCEKCUS. 515 



and more greyish brown ; under surface of the quills less rufous, 

 being grej'ish, freckled with pale rufous bars, not rufous freckled 

 with grey bars ; under wing-coverts also more greyish, barred with 

 rufous, the last row or gi-eater under winr/-corerts uniform grei/ with 

 no barrings whatever : " upper mandible black, the lower dusky 

 yellowish ; tarsi and toes fleshy dark brown " (Frant:ius, Jide 

 Laiure.nce). Total length 15 inches, wing 8-5-iJ-15, tail 2-50, 

 culmen 2-20-2-25, tarsus 2-70. 

 Hub. Costa Eica. 



a. Ad. sk. Panama. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Irazu, Costa Itica {H. Eor/ers). 8alvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Costa Rica {D. G. Elliot). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Compared with type.)' 



d. Ad. sk. Costa Itica. Purchased. 



5. Nothocercus intercedens. 



Nothocercus boiiapartii, Sckit. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 548 (Con- 

 cordia, Frontino iu Antioquia). 



? Tinamus nigricapilhts, part., Schleij. (nee G. R. Gr.) Mus. P.-B., 

 Tinami, p. 18, specim. 2 (Medelliii) (1880j. 



Adidt nude. Upper part and sides of the head with the occiput 

 black ; throat whitish, washed with rufescent ; lower neck and 

 upper parts rufous brown, waved with black lines ; breast and 

 abdomen rufescent ochreous brown, almost uniform along the 

 central part, but the upper part of the breast distinctly waved with 

 black lines ; sides and flanks olive-brown, waved with black lines ; 

 centre of the lower abdomen lighter, with narrow blackish bars and 

 whitish dots ; thighs olive-brown, barred with black ; under tail- 

 coverts olive-brown waved with black ; upper wing-coverts like the 

 back, but the greater ones with some whitish dots ; quills, iu the 

 closed wings, olive-brown with irregular black bars and others 

 rufescent ; primaries with rufous and blackish irregular bars on 

 the outer web, on the inner web more rufescent grej% freckled or 

 irregularly barred with blackish ; under aspect of the quills barred 

 with greyish brown and dull reddish ; under wing-coverts barred 

 with greyish brown and rufescent, the greater or last row much 

 lighter, with greyish and dull or pale rufescent bars ; tail waved with 

 olive-brown and blackish : " iris dark " {Salmon) : upper mandible 

 dusky, lower mandible pale; feet olive-brown in the dry skin. 

 Total length about IG inches, wing 8"75, tail 2"00, culmen 1"25, 

 tarsus 1"70. 



Another specimen, also marked male, differs in having the lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts conspicuously spotted with white ; the 

 wings with many more whitish or buff spots, the rufous bars on the 

 quills broader ; the abdomen and thighs arc also conspicuously 

 spotted with white ; the barrings on the under surface of the quills 

 are broader. 



This species is easily distinguished from N. bonapartei and If. 

 franizU by the whitish throat, only washed with rufescent ; besides 



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