SEP .^6 1896 



CRYPTURUS KERBERTI. 



NOTE I. 

 ON A PROBABLY NEW SPECIES OF CRYPTURUS 



BY 



Dr. J. BÜTTIKOPER. 



A few days ago the Leyden Museum was presented by 

 Dr. Kerbert , the Director of the Zoological Garden at 

 Amsterdam , with a specimen of Crypturus which had been 

 sent alive from Argentinia and died after having been kept 

 in the Garden during the last winter. The specimen, an 

 adult female with worn off tips of the wings and some- 

 what damaged on the hind neck, appears to belong to an 

 undescribed species, which I propose to name 



Crypturus Kerherti. 



Very closely allied to C. tataupa and C. parvirostris , 

 especially to the latter , with which it agrees in the smaller 

 size. From both species our specimen difiFers, however, 

 in the darker , grayish black color of head and hind neck, 

 and in the slaty gray instead of whitish throat and centre 

 of breast and abdomen. 



Entire head, neck and lower throat grayish black, 

 without any olive-brown tinge on the occiput ; upper 

 parts and tail chestnut-brown , the rump somewhat glossed 

 with purplish, and very finely vermiculated with black, 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuizx, Vol. XVIII. 



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