282 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Female. — Above, rufous, banded with black ; beneath, 

 whitish, striped with brown on the breast and body : 

 crown cinereous : middle tail feathers with ten black bars. 



Young male. — Crown with a rufous spot: outer tail 

 feather with one or two internal black bars. 



Inhabits Demerara. Mr. Schombergh. 



Three males and two females agreed in the above characters. 

 The male measures iO^ inches; bill, gape -^ ; wings 6fg ; 

 tail, beyond, Ifjj; ditto, base 5; tarsus ]-j|. 



Note. — The above three species have been probably over- 

 looked, as varieties of the North American sparverius, which 

 seems to represent rather a section of the genus, than to be 

 the type of a species. 



4. AcciPiTER sexfasciatus. 



Above, blackish brown ; beneath, white : crown and 

 nape, deep black : the feathers with their base white : 

 tail, beneath, black, with six entire white bars : thighs 

 and inner wing covers pale ferruginous. 



Inhabits Guiana. Mr. Schombergh. 



Total length 17 inches; wings 9, reaching to the upper 

 covers ; tail, beyond, 5§ ; do. base 8§ ; tarsus 2^-^ Obs. Form 

 typical : tail slightly rounded ; the tips of the feathers pointed 

 and crossed by tlie sixth band ; the other bands are dusky 

 above, but very white and regularly marked beneath ; fourth 

 quill longest, with seven white bands on the inner web. 



5. Ch^toblemma leucocephala. 



Front and upper part of the head pure white : ears 

 and sides brownish black : body above, wings, and tail, 

 brown, immaculate : under plumage white. 



Inhabits South Africa. Dr. Burchell's Coll. No. 270. 



Size large, total length about 9| inches ; bill, from the gape 

 1 ; ditto, front -f^ ; wings 5-^ ; tail, beyond, about 1\ ; base 

 4| ; tarsus 1 ; hind toe and claw ^. 



6. Telophonus longirostris. 



Above, brown ; beneath, cinereous : chin, ears, and 

 stripe above the eye, whitish : ears margined above by 

 a black line. Bill much lengthened, and slightly curved. 



