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and Godman. Both brown and ferruginous birds occur, the 

 latter not being very diflFerent from Central-American ex- 

 amples. A young specimen is in the Museum, which is dif- 

 ferent from the Guatemalan specimens mentioned above. It 

 has a perfectly uniform earthy-brown head, deep rufous-chest- 

 nut back, and uniform deep rufous tail. The Trinidad birds 

 are certainly rather more chestnut than the majority of Cen- 

 tral-American specimens ; but I cannot find any good specific 

 characters, so content myself with calling it a distinct race, 

 not exactly agreeing with either Brazilian or Central- American 

 specimens, and for which the name G. phalanoides may be 

 retained, as, notwithstanding the statement in Daudin's de- 

 scription (perhaps accidental) that the bill is blackish, the 

 characters given are otherwise so complete as to leave no 

 doubt of the species intended. 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



a, ad. Trinidad (Mus. Brit.) 6-5 3-9 2-65 075 



b,ad. „ „ 6-5 4-1 2-55 075 



c,ad. „ „ 6-5 4-0 2-65 075 



d,Juv. „ „ 6-0 376 2-55 075 



New Granada. Four specimens from Santa Marta are before 

 me ; one, from the Norwich Museum, is cinnamon, with 

 striped head, and indications of eight narrow and nearly ob- 

 solete bars on the tail. The three others are in the British 

 Museum, and were purchased from one and the same collec- 

 tion. One is nearly uniform cinnamon above, with only a few 

 light stripes on the head : the others are ochraceous brown, 

 the back spotted with fulvous, the head of one striped, and 

 that of the other partly striped and partly spotted, the spots 

 dilating into strijjes. The tail in both is nearly the same, 

 dark brown, with eight bands of white, not continuous across 

 the shaft, but all with more or less of a rufous tinge. 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



a, ad. Santa Marta (Mits. Brit.) 7-0 365 2G 07 



b, ad. „ „ 7-5 4-0 2-85 0-8 



Ecuador. The two specimens collected by Fraser, and re- 

 corded by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 289), are in the series 



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