1919-] Ecuador. Peru. Bolivia, and Argenfinu, 285 



which is replaced by black. The feathers ou the head and 

 hind-iieck are smoke-brown with black centres, narrowly 

 fi'iuged with white at the tips^ and white at the base; a 

 patch of buffy white on the sides of the crown ; ear-coverts 

 isabelline with dark shaft-lines to the feathers; sides of neck 

 fnlvous brown with broad black centres to the feathers, 

 some of which are fringed with white; chin and throat white, 

 Avith a patch of black on each side of the latter: fore-neck 

 and breast white^ with dark fulvous centres and black shaft- 

 lines to the feathers on the former, some of the feathers on 

 the sides of the body entirely black ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts cinnamon-rufous, the feathers fringed with white at 

 the tips; axiUaries and under wing-coverts cream-white, 

 with fulvous and black shaft-lines along the middle of the 

 feathers; under surface of quills and tail similar to those 

 already described. 



The specimen from Bogota, which is in the National 

 Collection {fide Sliarpe, Cat. B. i. p. 256), is almost in the 

 adult plumage, but shows the remains of immaturity by 

 the few whitish feathers on the throat, breast, abdomen, 

 and axillaries. 



Another bird, a male, collected in the Cauca Valley, 

 Colombia, by T. K. Salmon (c/. Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. 8. 

 1879, p. -150), is also in the fully adult plumage, but 

 some of the feathers on the throat are fringed laterally 

 with chestnut. Wing 460 mm., tail 265. 



There is also a young male from Venezuela evidently in 

 its first plumage, as it still has the remains of down at the 

 tips of many of the feathers both on the upper and under 

 surface. The crown of the head, hind-neck, sides of face 

 and sides of neck cream-white with dark shaft-lines to the 

 feathers and pale buff mottlings on the top of the head and 

 sides of the neck ; crest-feathers black, or mottled with 

 blackish smoke-brown Avith Avhite bases and fringed with 

 white at the tips; back pale brown with white fringes to the 

 feathers becoming darker on the upper tail-covcrts, where 

 the feathers have a blotch of white on both webs ; lesser 



