a CRYPTURUS KKRBERTI. 



especially on the wing-coverts, and more strongly so on 

 the secondaries ; primaries and their coverts uniform dark 

 earthy brown ; under surface of the wing , chin , upper 

 throat, centre of breast and abdomen uniform slaty gray, 

 not ashy white or isabel as in C. tataupa and parvirostris; 

 chest, breast and sides of breast ashy gray with a fulvous 

 tinge, and finely vermiculated with black; lower flanks 

 black , each feather margined with ashy white and showing 

 a y-shaped mark of the same color on the centre of the 

 feather ; vent like the abdomen , but each feather broadly 

 centred with pale chestnut ; under tail-coverts fulvous , 

 with arrow-shaped, black markings; under wing-coverts 

 like the breast. Iris chocolate-brown , bill blood-red , feet 

 pinkish red. Wing (secondaries) 11,5 cm.; tail 2,5; tarsus 

 3; culmen 2,2. 



Leyden Museum, April 24^^ 1896. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , "Vol. >C"V1II. 



