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l)lack which becomes much broader on the remainder of the 

 back and wings, where the buff, or fulvous bars and edgings 

 are very narrow compared with the black interspaces ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primary quills greyish 

 brown, darker on the outer webs, and buff mottlings at the 

 tips of the last which cross the entire feather on the inner- 

 most secondaries ; tail blackish banded with rufous-buff, 

 the bands rather broader than those on the back; chin and 

 throat pale rufous, becoming darker on the lower throat 

 where the feathers are minutely barred with blackish ; fore- 

 neck slate-grey with rufous-chestnut edges to some of the 

 feathers, this colour increasing in extent on the breast 

 where it occupies nearly the Avhole of the feather; paler 

 again on the abdomen, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts, 

 where the feathers are buff, or fulvous barred or mottled 

 with blackish ; under wing-coverts silvery grey or white, 

 the marginal ones dark brown or sooty-black ; under sur- 

 face of quills pale brown, broadly margined with grey on the 

 inner edges. 



Total length 330 mm., culmen 32, wing 177, tail 53, 

 tarsus 55. 



Crypturus transfasciatus. 



Crypturus transfasciatus Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 141, pi. xiii. : Santa Rosa, Ecuador ; Salvadori & Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Torino, xv. 1899, No. 357, p. 51 : Guayaquil. 



No. 173. S' Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1 Dec. 1898. "Found 

 in thick jungle/^ 



There is a specimen of this species in the British Museum 

 from the Balzar Mountains, Ecuador, collected by Illing- 

 wortli, which Count Salvadori regarded as identical with 

 C. transfasciatus. It differs, however, from the one in the 

 Simons collection in being almost uniform creamy-white 

 on the under surface, while the barrings on the upper back 

 and mantle are similar to those of the type. The following 

 are the measurements of the three individual birds men- 

 tioned above : — 



No. 173 Simons collection: Culmen 27 mm., wing 160, 

 tail 47, tarsus 5 1. 



