Vol. XIII 

 1896 



Chapman, The Standing of Ardetia rieoxeva. 



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29,289 has the abdominal region and breast black slightly tinged 

 with chestnut and with one or two white feathers on either side of 

 the belly. The left tibia (the skin on the right is wanting) is 

 chestnut and black with white filoplumes. The chestnut on the 

 median coverts is much reduced. No. 44,086 (J, Fla.) is almost 

 completely melanistic. The abdominal region is wholly black 

 with the exception of two pure white feathers on either side of the 

 belly. The tibiae are smoky brown the inner side of the right one 

 being white. The foreneck is black washed with dull chestnut, 

 the wing-coverts are glossy black with no trace of chestnut. 



This remarkable variability will be more fully appreciated by 

 an examination of the following: table : — 



No. 



167 



44° 8 / 



7i 



440S8 



! 9 28 9 



440S6 



Abdominal Region. 



Mixed chestnut and smoky 

 brown. 



Mixed chestnut and black ; 

 two white feathers on right 

 flank. 



Chestnut with eight white 

 feathers. 



Mixed chestnut, black and 

 white. 



White with a few chestnut 

 and brownish feathers. 



Tibi.e. 



Like abdo- 

 men but right 

 w i t h white 

 feathers. 



Like abdo- 

 men. 



Chestnut, 

 right partly 

 white. 



Like abdo- 

 men. 



Front white, 

 back smok y 

 brown. 



Remarks. 



Outer primary 

 of left wing and 

 some feathers of 

 bend of wing and 

 unde r wing-cov- 

 erts white. 



Wing coverts 



black tinged with 

 chestnut. 



Black with two white feathers. 1 Right smoky Foreneck black 



brown, left washed with 

 smoky brown chestnut. Winer- 



Black tinged with chestnut; Chestnut 

 three white feathers on belly. and black. 



and white. 



coverts glossy 



black. 



