4176 Ml'. J. H. Criirney's Notes on 



The next species to which I propose to allude is A. chiono- 

 gaster, with refereace to which I may observe that the mea- 

 surements given by Mr. Sharpe of that species appear to be 

 those of the male bird, and I therefore add the following 

 taken from a Guatemalan female in the collection of Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman : — wing from carpal joint 8G inches, 

 tarsus 2*2, middle toe s. u. 1"6. 



Mr. Sharpe only describes the adult plumage of this species, 

 which is the same in both sexes ; and I may therefore men- 

 tion that a young male from Merida, in Venezuela, in the 

 above collection, differs from Guatemalan* adults in the fol- 

 lowing particulars, viz. : — A.11 the feathers on the upper sur- 

 face, except the primaries and rectrices, are narrowly tipped 

 with rufous brown, and those on the sides of the neck are 

 edged throughout with the same ; the dark cross bars on the 

 tail are six in number on the upper, and nine on the lower 

 surface ; the shaft-marks on the breast and abdomen are 

 broader than in the adult, and there are two irregular cross 

 bars on each feather on the sides of, the breast; the thighs 

 are of a uniform rich rufous, much darker than the fulvous 

 tint of the tibial feathers in a somewhat more advanced, but 

 still immature, male and female from Guatemala, in which 

 the thighs are nearly as pale as in the Guatemalan adults of 

 both sexes. 



I have examined two young males of this species in which 

 the iris has been noted by the collector as being yellow ; and 

 I think it well to note the fact, as the colour of the eye in 

 this species has not, so far as I know, been recorded. 



Passing on to the next nearly allied, but more southern 

 species, A. erythrocnemis, I may remark that the type speci- 

 men in the British Museum, which is the only one of which 

 Mr. SharjDC gives the measurements, appears by its dimen- 

 sions to be a male ; and I therefore annex, as a guide to the 

 comparative size of the sexes, which do not otherwise differ, 

 the following measurements of two presumed males and three 

 presumed females : — 



* 1 liave uot liad any oppoiliinity of exaniiuiii<j- an adult specimen from 

 Venezuela. 



