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" Bill yellowish horn-colour with the spaces between the various portions 

 of the sheath of both mandible and maxilla black. Feet black." (Salvin 

 t. c). 



"Male: Valparaiso, August 1879. Eyes dark brown; bill grey and 

 black; legs black." (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 12.) 



Fig. 85. 



Fig. 



Majaqueus eqiimoctialis. Profile of head. 

 From material in the British Museum, i^ 

 natural size. 



Majaqueus cquinoctialis. 

 above. From material ir 

 Museum. ^ natural size. 



Head from 

 the British 



"The amount of white on the chin varies very much in different indi- 

 viduals. Some have an irregular white stripe running from near the base 

 of the mandible under the eye almost to the nape, and a transverse band 

 across the forehead in front of the eye. Upon such specimens Gould 



Fig. 87. 



Fig. 88. 



Majaqueus equinoctialis. Profile of head. 

 From material in the British Museum. ^ 

 natural size. 



Majaqueus cqumoctia/is. Head from 

 above. From material in the British 

 Museum. Vx natural size. 



founded his M. conspicellatus, a form recognized by Dr. Coues as distinct, 

 but apparently connected with the typical form by every degree of 

 variation." (Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 396 (1896)). 



