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colour, •which on the secondaries assumes the form of distinct bars ; in 

 addition to these marks the scapularies, secondaries, back and rump, 

 are minutely freckled with brown ; the strongly contrasted markings 

 giving all the upper surface a bespangled appearance ; primaries 

 brownish-grey ; tail-feathers bluish-grey ; some of them freckled on 

 the margin with buff; Ijill black; feet flesh-white. 



Total length, 7 inches; bill, ^; wing, 4; tail, 2^; tarsi, 1^. 



Hub. Mexico ; locality unknown. In the collection of the Earl of 

 Derby. 



Remark. — Of the same form, but smaller in size than 0. Virginiana. 



Oktvx CASTANEA. Ort.froiite guldque nigris ; lined siiperciliari 



albd obsoletd usque ad occiput, et super hanc lined nigrd veriice, 



nuchd, dorso superiore, hitmeris, pectore, et Interibus scdurate caS' 



taneis ; uropt/gio, tectricibvsque caudce castcaieis nigro irroratis, 



fasciatis, et punctatis ; pliimis abdominalibus albis, nigro iindatim 



fasciatis lateralibiis, guttis albis supra nigro cinctis, ornatis ; his 



notis omnibus lucidis. 



Forehead and throat black ; an indistinct line of white runs 



over the eye to the occiput, above this another indistinct line of 



black ; crown of the head, back of the neck, upper part of the back, 



shoulders, chest and flanks, deep rich chestnut ; the feathers on the 



sides of the neck with a black stripe down the centre and an oblong 



jDatch of white down the outer web ; the tertiaries and some of the 



scapularies margined with deep fawn-colour, bounded within by an 



indistinct line of black ; these feathers are also crossed with indistinct 



bars and freckles of black ; rump and upper tail-coverts rich chestnut, 



minutely freckled, barred and dotted with black ; feathers on the 



centre of the abdomen white, marked with strong zigzag bars of 



black, changing into spots of white, bounded above by black on the 



flanks, all these marks being very brilliant ; eyelash dark olive ; irides 



dark reddish hazel ; bill black ; legs yellowish white. 



Total length, 8§ inches ; bill, -^-^ ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 2| ; tarsi, 1^. 

 Weight o\ ounces and 20 grains avoirdupois. 

 Hab. South America; locality unknown. In my own collection. 

 Remark. — Rather larger in all its measurements than O. Virginia 

 ana. From the general appearance of this bird, Mr. Gould is led to 

 believe that it may hereafter prove to be a variety of some other 

 species, probably of 0. Virginiana ; at the same time its markings are 

 so different and so decided in character that he has deemed it best 

 to describe it provisionally, under a distinct appellation. 



Orttx (Odontophorus) stellata. Ort. mas. guld et collo cine- 

 reis, plumis rufo marginatis alis, plumisque scapularibus castaneo, 

 ceruino, et nigro pulchre pictis ; cauda tectricibus, rectricibusque 

 lineis undulutis ulternatim rufo-fuscis et nigris, ornatis, puncfis, 

 et guttis parvulis interspersis ; pectore, abdomine, et crisso splen- 

 dide rufo-castaneis plumis pectoris guild parvuld centrali albd an- 

 guste nigro fere cinctd, per pulchre pictis. 



Fcem. staturd minore, et notis albis pectoi-alibus mag^is productis, et 

 miniis conspicuis distinguendd. 



