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CINEREOUS CURUCUI. 



(Trogon strigilatus. ) 



ft. cinereus, abdominefulvo, alls strigis albis, rectricibus nigris, 



tribus lateralibus extux albo Jasciatis apice albis. 

 Cinereous Curucui, with a fulvous abdomen ; wings striated with 



white; tail-feathers black, the three lateral ones outwardly 



banded and tipped with white. 

 Trogon strigilatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 167. 1. Gmel. Syst.Nat. 



1.402. Lath. Ind.-Orn. 1. 200. 4. 

 Trogon cayanensis cinereus. Bris. 4. 165. 1. 16. 1. Geo. 



Orn. 2. 53. 188. 

 Couroucou de la Guiane. Biiffl Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 2Q3. Bitff. 



PL Enl. 765. 

 Cinereous Curucui. Lath. Syn. 2. 48Q. 3. 



SIZE of a Blackbird. Length twelve inches and 

 a half; beak one inch long and dark ash colour; 

 the general colour of the body dark ash, but more 

 so on the legs and thighs ; bell} 7 and under tail- 

 coverts of a fine orange yellow ; scapulars, upper 

 wing-coverts, and the greater ones close to the 

 body, blackish, striated transversely with narrow 

 white lines ; those farthest from the body plain ; 

 under wing-coverts dark ash, margined with white ; 

 greater quills blackish ; the five first have white 

 margins two-thirds of their length ; secondaries 

 blackish, but white at the base, and marked with 

 that colour on the exterior edge ; tail blackish, 

 the six middle feathers six inches and a quarter in 

 length ; the three exterior ones shorten gradually, 

 the most outward being two inches shorter than 



