228 Miscellaneous. 
every feather irregularly lined and minutely spotted with black ; many 
of the feathers also with subrounded spots of pure white, occasionally 
disposed in pairs. 
Abdomen, flanks and under tail-coverts fulvous, every feather 
marked longitudinally with black, and about one to three transverse 
marks of the same colour, assuming a partially lyrate form; these 
marks less distinct on the flanks. 
Tail umber-brown, with about eight to ten irregular pale brownish 
white bars; under surface paler. 
Plumage of the tarsi reaching nearly to the toes, pale reddish 
fulvous ; tibial plumage darker, inclining to ferruginous ; toes naked. 
Bill yellow. 
Total length about 93 inches, wing 8, tail 49. 
Hab. South America. 
Two specimens of this bird in the Rivoli collection are without 
label; a third, obtained in Paris by Mr. Edward Wilson, is labeled 
«South America.” 
I am acquainted with no species which in any considerable degree 
resembles the bird now described, nor have I met with a description 
applicable to it. 
Syrnium virgatum, nobis. Plumage of the entire upper surface 
dark umber-brown, every feather having about three to five irregular 
transverse narrow bands of sordid yellowish white, most numerous 
and distinct on the head and rump. Upper tail-coverts banded with 
pure white. 
Scapulars obliquely banded on their outer webs with fulvous, on 
their inner webs more or less regularly banded with yellowish white. 
Wing-coverts with broader bands, and also mottled and pointed at 
their tips with whitish. 
Primaries very dark brown, nearly black, external webs with about 
seven square spots of grayish white, some of which enclose central 
spots of dark brown, and all more or less dotted and mottled with 
the same colour. These square spots less regular on the first and 
second primaries; all the primaries with broad pale tips. Internal 
webs with regular bands of dark and paler brownish black. 
General colour of the face same as the head and back ; superciliary 
plumage and discal circle nearly white, more or less spotted and 
lined with deep brown. 
Breast deep umber-brown tinged with fulvous, every feather 
having about three very irregular transverse bands, which are 
broader and paler than those of the back, though of the same cha- 
racter ; on the lower part of the breast these bands are nearly white. 
Abdomen pale fulvous, every feather with a longitudinal stripe of 
black, and with one or two transverse irregular bands at the tip of 
the same colour; ventral region and under tail-coverts pale fulvous 
nearly white, with a trace of blackish spots. 
Tarsi dark fulvous, mottled with brown ; feathered to the toes. 
Tail black, tipped with white, and having about five bands, which 
are brownish on the outer and white on the inner webs. 
Bill horn-colour at the base, pale yellow at the tip: toes quite 
naked. 
