74 Mr. J. H. Gurney^s Notes on 



most of the feathers show narrow indistinct brownish tips ; 

 the primaries are black below the level of the emargination, 

 above which they are crossed with irregular alternate bars of 

 darker and lighter grey ; the secondaries and tertiaries are 

 similarly but more regularly barred throughout, and with the 

 paler bars darker than those on the primaries ; all the secon- 

 daries and tertiaries have a broad dark tip, narrowly edged 

 at the extremity of each with a shade of pale brown, which is 

 also just perceptible on the tips of the primaries ; the tail is 

 white, but with a tinge of grey on the external webs of all 

 the rectrices except the central ones, this tinge being deepest 

 on the outermost pair, the tail is also barred with eight nar- 

 row and iiTCgularly dark transverse lines, ^^hich are more 

 distinct on the outer than on the central rectrices, and least 

 so on the latter as they approach the upper tail- coverts ; below 

 these transverse lines there is a broad black band, succeeded 

 by a much narrower band of greyish brown, below which the 

 tail is narrowly tipped with w^hite. 



The breast and wing-linings are of a slate-coloiu*, resem- 

 bling that of the head, neck, and throat ; the feathers of the 

 bastard wing are barred on their under side with alternate 

 markings of darker and liglitcr grey, succeeded by a dark 

 slaty tip; the outer axillaries are dark grey, the inner ax- 

 illaries similar, but with irregular white transverse bars di- 

 vided by dark shaft -marks ; the under surface of the remiges 

 resembles the upper surface, but with the inner webs near the 

 base finely mottled with intermingled white and grey; the 

 abdomen and tliighs grey, but with many of the feathers, 

 especially on the thighs, transversely barred with white ; the 

 under tail-coverts resemble the upper tail- coverts, both in 

 colour and in markings. 



No. 2, from the mountain region of Merida, in Venezuela, 

 and marked as a female by the collectoz", only differs from 

 No. 1 in the following particulars, viz. : — the lesser wing- 

 coverts and scapulars, especially the former, are tinged with 

 rufous, which also appears, though less decidedly, on the 

 rump, bastard wing, axillary feathers, and abdomen ; the 

 thighs are dark rufous, crossed by narrow bars of wliitc, the 



