554 TnfAMiDjs. 



pileum blackish in the middle ; each feather of the back broadly 

 edged with grey on both sides, and with two whitish stripes 

 between the grey lateral edge and the dark mesial portion, 

 the latter mostly black with irregular greyish-brown bars ; throat 

 and middle of the abdomen whitish with a bufiSsh tinge ; lower 

 fore neck, breast, and sides grey, on the sides of the breast some 

 feathers are like those of the upper parts ; upper wing-coverts like 

 the back, only the dark mesial portion narrower ; primaries grey, 

 regularly spotted with whitish on the outer web ; secondaries brown, 

 with rufous bars on the outer web, the inner web uniform brown ; 

 under wing-coverts pale brown tinged with rufous, the last row 

 pure grey : bill in dry skin dusky, the base of the lower mandible 

 pale ; feet pale horn-colour. Total length about 12 inches, wing 

 6'5, culmen 1, tarsus 1*5. 



Young in down. Upper parts variegated with pale brown and 

 black, and conspicuously striped with white, some feathers having 

 the narrow apical portion entirely white, while others have dull 

 greyish bases, the subapical portion black, and the tips rufescent ; 

 sides of the head huffish white, with some black marks near the 

 ear-coverts ; throat pure white ; remainder of the lower parts 

 whitish, with some dusky marks showing through the tips. {Santiago, 

 Mus. Turin.) 



Hah. Northern and Central Chili. 



Lieut. Mawe, R.N. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Purchased. 



H. Eei-keley James, Esq. [P.]. 

 e,f.cS2 ^^- sk. Maquehua,Chili,Aug. H. Berkeley James, Esq. [P.]. 

 (/. Pull. sk. Rio Bueuo, Chili, Feb. H. Berkeley James, Esq. [P.J. 



h. Ad. St. Valparaiso. Sir ^\'. Burnett & Capt. Fitzroy 



[P.]. 

 i. Skeleton. Chili. Purchased. 



4. Nothoprocta coquimhica. ( Plate XV.) 



Nothura perdicariu, part., G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 53, 



specim. a (Coquimbo) (1844). 

 Rhyncliotus ciuerascens, G. R. Gr. {tiec Biinn.) Lid Gallincs Br. Mus. 



p. 103 (Coquimbo) (1867) ; id. Hcmd-list, iii. p. 5, no. 9899 (1871). 

 Nothura cinerascens, Sclat. {nee Burm.) P. Z. S. 1867, p. 331 



(Coquimbo). 

 Rhynchotus cinerascens, Sclat. t. c. p. 339 (Coquimbo). 

 ? Nothura perdicaria, Sclat. Sj^ Salv. Ibis, 1»70, p. oOii (eggs). 

 Nothoprocta perdicaria, Sharjje {nee Kiftl.), P. Z. S. 1880, p. 18 



(Coquimbo) ; MacFarl. Ibis, 1887, p. 202 (Coquimbo). 



Similar to N. perdicaria, but of a clearer grey on the upper parts, 

 the mesial brown part of the feathers of the upper parts much more 

 grey ; wings much more grey ; lower fore neck aud breast of a 

 purer grey, nearly bluish. " Legs yellow " {Copphu/er). 



Hah. Coquimbo, S. Chili. 



