OTIS RUFICRINTA-Smith. 



AvES. — Plate IV. (Male.) 



Mas. 0. capite supra caeruleo-griseo ; fascia suborbital! coUoque griseis, paUide bninneo sparsis ; stria 

 superciliari sordide alba, nigro variegata usque ad nucham porrccta ; crista castanea ; niento, regione 

 parotica, macuiaque ante alas albis, Ulo fascia longitudinaU nigra; dorso isabollino liue'is nigris 

 undatis, variegatis; scapularibus, interscapularibus, humerisque praterea niaculis lanceolatis nigris 

 notatis flavo-albo marginatis; alarum tcctricibus secundariis apicibus albis, tectricibus primaribus, 

 remiigbusque nigro-brunncis, albo niaculatis; pectorc ventreque nigris; oculis rubro-brunneis ,' 

 pcdibus albo-flavis; mandibula superiore unguibusque viridi-nigris, mandibuia inferiore ad basiii 

 subflava ad apicem livida. 



Otis Ruficrista, Rep. of Exped. App. page 56, June 183G. 



Colour.— The upper surface of the head intermediate between bkiish and 

 bhickisli grey ; a stripe below each eye, and the neck pearl-grey, the latter 

 closely freckled with wood-brown, except at the lower part of the throat, where 

 the colour is pure pearl-grey, with a lilac blush ; eyebrows rusty white, finely 

 mottled with black, and continued on each side of the head until they 

 unite on the nape, immediately over the crest ; the latter pale chesnut, 

 darkest towards the point; ear coverts wood-brown; chin and a blotch on 

 each side of the breast in front of wings white, the former divided along its 

 centre by a narrow black stripe broadest behind. Back, shoulders, scapulars, 

 and tertiary quill feathers, between ochre and cream-yellow ; all the feathers 

 finely variegated by numerous waved, somewhat transverse black lines, and 

 all except those of the back marked besides, by lanceolate black stripes 

 edged and tipt with cream-yellow. The secondary wing coverts black 

 towards their quills, white towards their tips ; the last colour so disposed as to 

 form an oblique white band along the wing. Primary quill coverts and quill 

 feathers, brownish black with transverse white blotches ; tail coverts and tail 

 feathers, white, closely barred by fine black lines, the lateral feathers broadly 

 tipt with pure black, the two middle ones crossed near their extremities by a 

 pure black band, which behind is edged with white, the inner vanes of these 

 two feathers black at the points, the outer vanes black, with transverse white 

 lines. The breast, belly and under tail coverts, black. Upper mandible 

 and claws of a dark horn-colour ; the lower mandible greenish yellow towards 



