Miscellaneous. pepe Te 
more or less: well-defined square form. Internal webs of primaries 
with alternate bands of different shades of black. 
Breast and entire inferior parts pale fulvous, every feather con- 
spicuously marked on the shaft longitudinally with black, and with 
very irregular transverse bands and irregularly mottled with black ; 
the black markings most numerous and most irregular on the breast. 
Many of the feathers on the breast with very pale nearly white spots, 
having somewhat the appearance of being distributed in pairs. 
Tail black, with about seven or eight narrow irregular grayish 
bands, many of which have central lines of black. 
Tarsi feathered to the toes, pale fulvous white, mottled with black. 
Bill horn-colour at the base, whitish at the tip. 
Total length (of skin) about 94 inches, wing 7, tail 34. 
Younger? Plumage above paler, with small spots and minute 
freckles of grayish white, scarcely assuming the appearance of bands. 
Breast with the dark markings predominating, and tending to 
form a broad pectoral band ; lower parts of the body bright fulvous 
with black marks. 
Hab. South America. 
This species bears some resemblance to Ephialtes atricapilla (Natt.), 
Temm. Pl. Col. 145, but is much larger, and has only one nuchal 
collar. The general colour above is also much darker; the fulvous 
colouring of the inferior surface of the body is also a striking dif- 
ference. 
One specimen of this species in the Rivoli collection is labeled 
«‘Orenoque,” and another in the collection of the Academy is pro- 
bably from South America. 
I have named this bird in honor of Gavin Watson, M.D, of this 
city, a gentleman of extensive knowledge of natural history, much 
attached to the study of the American Raptores, and an especial 
admirer of the Owls. 
Syrnium albogularis, nobis. Entire plumage above deep umber- 
brown, every feather more or less finely vermiculated and minutely 
spotted with black; on the head also transversely lined and spotted 
with pure white, especially in the region of the occiput, where upon 
some feathers the white spots are disposed regularly in pairs upon 
the opposite webs. 
Feathers of the back and rump having also three or four irregular 
transverse lines, and irregularly spotted with pale brownish nearly 
white. Scapulars broadly barred and edged with white. 
Lesser wing-coverts with irregular lines of pale brownish, and 
with large white marks on their external webs. Primaries with their 
external webs nearly black, with about eight to twelve square spots 
or bands of fulvous. Internal webs of primaries plain black or with 
obscure bands. 
Eyebrow white ; a large semicircular segment of white covering 
the jaws and throat, interrupted at the base of the under mandible 
by a few brownish feathers; many of those white feathers conspi- 
cuously tipped with black, forming a well-defined semicircular discal 
collar or ruff. 
Breast with a broad band of the same umber-brown as the back, 
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