122 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 



transverse rufous bars ; but with tliis exception, the entire 

 uudersurface is less tinged with rufous than in No. 1 ; the 

 axillaries are cream-coloured. 



No. 3. (Collection Salvin and Godman). A young female 

 from Panama, very similar to the specimen last mentioned, 

 but with the cross barring on the underparts extending quite 

 across the abdomen, which is not the case in No. 2 ; it also 

 differs from No. 2 in the cross bars being browner and less 

 rufous, both on the abdomen and on the thighs. 



No. 4. (Collection Salvin and Godman.) This is an imma- 

 ture bird from East Brazil, very similar to No. 2, but almost 

 destitute of rufous edgings to the wing-coverts ; it is more 

 abundantly supplied with dark-brown shaft-marks on the 

 upper breast ; but the rufous cross bars on the sides are much 

 less developed, and the rufous cross barring on the tibias is 

 less distinct than in Nos. 2 and 3. 



No. 5. (Norwich Museum.) This is also a young bird 

 from Brazil, which presents a very different phase of plumage 

 from the three birds last described, but agrees with Mr. 

 Sharpe's description of the " young " plumage, except in the 

 following particulars : the three transverse bars on the tail 

 are partially white ; the cheeks are dark brown like the crown 

 of the head ; the narrow dark shaft-marks on the upper breast 

 have broad dark bases as on the flanks ; and the thighs are 

 transversely barred with greyish brown. 



No. 6. (Collection Salvin and Godman.) A young bird 

 from East Brazil, of a similar type to No. 4, but differing from 

 that specimen in the absence of white mottlings on the upper 

 surface (with the exception of white spots on the inner webs 

 of the secondaries and tertials), in the dark shaft-marks on 

 the upper breast being merely hair-like and without broad 

 bases, in the flanks being immaculate, and the thighs also, 

 excepting some very indistinct grey transverse bars on one of 

 them. The white plumage of the underparts in this specimen 

 is interrupted in two places by the appearance of new adult 

 rufous feathers. 



With regard to the plumage of the adult birds, I think it 

 probable that Mr. Sharpe is correct in supposing that those 



