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Vicente) ; G. E. Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 312 (Honduras) ; Salv. Ibis, 

 1861, p. 356 (Chisec, errore), 1866, p. 296 (Pacific coast-region of 

 Guatemala) ; G. R. Gr. List GaHince Brit. Mus. p. 100 (Cordova, 

 Mexico; Honduras) (1867) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 637 (1877); 

 Sumic/irast, La Nat. v. p. 229 (1881) (Vera Cruz & Teliuantepec) ; 

 Nehrk. J.f. O. 1881, p. 69 (egg, Yucatan) ; Rchmv. J.f. O. 1882, 

 p. 11 (Zool. Gart.). 



Crypturus sallsei, Sclat. Si- Salv. Exot. Orn. p. 89, pi. xlv. (1868), 

 cf. Ibis, 1868, p. 337; Later . Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 141 (San Jos6) 

 (1869) ; Erantz. J.f. 0. 1869, p. 374 (Esparza, Costa Rica) ; Sclat. 

 (Sr Salv. Nom. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 11 (Mexico, Amer. Ceutr., 

 Colombia et Venezuela) (1873) ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 328 (Yucatan 

 and Guatemala) ; Sumichrast, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1876, p. 45 ; 

 Schley. Mus. P.-B., Tinami, p. 31 (Bogota ! Landsberge : Surinam !) 

 (1880) ; Zeled. Cat. Av. Costa Rica, p. 29 (1882) ; Nutting, Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. V. p. 409 (1882) (La Palma, Costa Eica) ; Boucard, 

 P.Z.S. 1883, pp. 434, 462 (Yucatan) ; Zeled. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 1885, p. 112 (Costa Rica) ; Ferarri, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 180 

 (1886) (Jalapa); Zeled. Ann. Mus. Nac. Rep. Costa Rica, 1887, 

 p. 128. 



Crypturus strigulosus, Sclat. Sf Salv. (nee Temm.) P. Z. S. 1869, 

 pp. 252, 254 (Cerro Azul of Guigue, Venezuela). 



Adult male. Upper part of the head anteriorly brown-black, 

 posteriorly brown-chestnut with obsolete blackish bars ; sides of 

 the head, including lores, and sides of the neck rufescent ; throat 

 white ; lower neck greyish olive-brown, with obsolete dusky linear 

 bars ; back olive-brown, with black undulated bars, very narrow in 

 the interscapular region, and gradually becoming broader on the 

 lower back and rump, very broad on the upper tail-coverts, which 

 are crossed also with pale yellowish-buff bars ; breast bright rufous, 

 abdomen paler; sides of the breast slightly waved with dusky 

 lines ; flanks barred with broader black bands and narrower pale 

 reddish bands ; tips of the feathers broadly yellowish buff ; under 

 tail-coverts basally black, buff nt the tip, the intermediate portion 

 buff with irregular oblique black lines ; smaller upper wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median and greater ones blackish brown, dis- 

 tinctly barred with yellowish buff; primaries, primary-coverts, and 

 bastard-wing uniform greyish brown, nearly black ; secondaries 

 marked with yellowish or olive on the outer web, tertials barred 

 with olive ; under wing-coverts greyish brown, the inner ones light 

 grey, tipped with pale rufescent, the last row uniform pale grey, 

 like the under surface of quills ; tail-feathers brown, tinged with 

 olive-brown on the outer web, and regularly crossed with several 

 narrow rufescent bars : " upper mandible brown, lower mandible 

 and feet yellow" {Sclater); " iris brown " (iV^it^nif/). Total length 

 about 12 inches, wing 6-75, tail 2, culmen l-O-l'l, tarsus 1'9. 



Female. Differs from the male in the greater development of the 

 transverse markings, which in this sex cover the top of the head, 

 the front of the breast, and the whole of the sides of the body 

 below. 



Young. Upper part of the head and nape with black and rufous- 

 brown bars ; upper parts greyish olive, but more greyish on the 



