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including the quills and tail, is ferruginous brown, darkest on the 

 head ; the feathers on the back, when raised, are seen to be pure 

 white for about half their length ; they are then obliquely banded 

 by black, while their remaining or external portion is of the same 

 colour as the parts adjacent : the white colour of course is entirely 

 concealed, so also, in part, are the black bands ; the feathers on 

 the rump are remarkably long. From the nostrils commences a 

 broad band (which at first is white, but gradually becomes ful- 

 vous,) passing over the eijes and half way down the neck, leaving 

 the ears and the sides of the head and neck deep black; the c/t?«, 

 in this sex, is also black, and the throat pure white : across the 

 upper part of the breast is a half concealed collar of black, the 

 margins of the feathers being white, but those on each side the 

 breast tinged with cinereous : the middle of the bod/y is white ; 

 the flunks light ferruginous, and the under tail covers fulvous or 

 deep buff colour. The wing covers are deep black, those on the 

 shoulder, and the lesser series, are each tipt with a snow white 

 spot ; while the greater covers and the spurious quills are spotted 

 with buff. Tail moderate and graduated, the outer feathers being 

 only half the length of those in the middle. Tarsi rather lengths- 

 ened ; claws moderate. In a preserved state these parts are yellow, 

 but in the recent bird they, as well as the irides, are almost white, 

 'JVi)igs short and feeble. 



Female. This sex differs in the following particulars. The 

 under mandible of the bill is pale. The concealed white spot oa 

 the back is less : the line above the eye, as well as all the round 

 spots on the wing covers, are entirely buff: and the whole of the 

 chin and throat is buff coloured yellow. The sides of the breast 

 are dusky brown, without any mixture of cinereous ; and the black 

 collar round the throat is nearly obsolete. 



Total length, 3 { inches; bill, |; Avings, 2 J^; tail, 2 |; tarsi, 

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Obs. My hunters were fortunate in procuring two pair of these 

 beautiful little birds, in the forests of Pitangua near Bahia. I had 

 therefore full proof of their identity as one species. 



