OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 



internal spot in the middle : the third, fourth, and fifth quills 

 equal, and not longer than the tertials. 



133. FuBNARius leucopus. 



Above^ rufous : 

 throat, and body be- 

 neath, white : top of 

 the crown, and nape, 

 blackish brown : breast 

 rufous white: spurious 

 wings and first quill 

 feather entirely black ; 

 feet very pale, almost 

 white, (fig. 67. a) 



Inhabits Guiana, where it frequents the sides of rivers. 



Total length 6h inches ; bill, front ^7_ ; ditto, gape 1 ; wings 

 3^; tail, beyond, 1^^^; ditto, base 2fg ; tarsus 1; hind toe 

 and claw i. The F. rufus of Brazil, but rather smaller : bill 

 straighten Greater quills blackish, with an oblong rufous band, 

 and rather longer than the tertials: ears, above, dark. The 

 wings are much rounded, so that the fifth quill is the longest. 



134. FuRNARius griseiis. 

 Above, grey brown, varied with transverse darker 

 shades on the wings ; beneath, white : crown and nape 

 black : above the eye a w^hite stripe, bordered below by 

 a black one : tail black, with a white band before the tip. 

 Inhabits the savannahs of Guiana, (fig. 67. b) 

 Total length Scinches; bill, front 1; ditto, gape 1:| ; 

 wings 3^; tail, beyond, 2i ; ditto, base 31; tarsus 1^; hind 

 toe and claw -^. The ground colouring of this singular species 

 is very peculiar, and diflScult to be described, owing to the 

 feathers of the body and wings being brown, mottled towards 

 their extremities either with grey or a dirty drab colour ; these 

 again, upon the wing covers and tertials, are crossed by indis- 

 tinct dusky bars : the head and nape are brownish black, bor- 

 dered by a conspicuous white band from the nostrils to the 

 nape, over the eye ; below which, on the ears, is another of 

 black : the white on the sides of the neck forms a sort of half- 

 collar below the nape : two middle tail feathers black brown ; 

 the rest black, with a broad white oblique band, leaving the 

 tips partially black : bill and feet horn colour. 



135. Philedon Imcero'ides. 

 General size and colours of Philedon corniculatu-s. 

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