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above, with a tinge of deep rufous on the breast and sides of 

 the neck ; the dark longitudinal stripes on the under surface 

 are of a much larger size than those of Coojperi, and cover 

 the entire abdomen ; the sides are heavily barred with rufous 

 brown, and the feathers of the thighs have their ends marked 

 with large guttate spots of rufous, assuming the form of irregu- 

 lar bars; Cooperi has these parts marked with elongated gut- 

 tate stripes that are quite narrow on the thighs. The tail is 

 marked much like that of Coajperi^ but the colors are more 

 obscure. 



Memarks. — A very marked feature in the adult of this spe- 

 cies is the ash color of the breast and sides, which does not 

 exist at all in Cooperi j the under surface is less marked with 

 white than in that species ; the thighs are nearly of a uniform 

 rufous, which in Cooperi are conspicuously barred with white ; 

 in the latter the under wing-coverts are white, with longitudinal 

 spots of rufous brown, whereas in Gundlachi they are rufous 

 barred with white. 



From A. pileatus, as figured in PI. Col. pi. 205, it is also very 

 different ; the adult of that species has the top of the head dark 

 slate, the upper plumage of a rather light slate-blue ; wings 

 dark slate ; tail with four dark bands, whitish between ; the 

 under plumage uniform pale whitish-blue ; thighs deep rufous ; 

 no appearance of bars on any part of the plumage ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; bill bluish, under mandible yellow at the base ; 

 legs yellow. 



It is perhaps not out of place here to remark, that G. R. 

 Gray, Cat. of Birds, Brit. Mus., 1848, and Strickland, Ornith. 

 Syn., 1855, both place Cooperi Bon. under pileatus Pr. Max., 

 from which it is certainly distinct, and a well-established 

 species. 



