492 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA 



74 quint.— Ephialtes modestus, Walden. 



This species was described, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 

 1874, p. 123, as follows : — 



u Stiff loral bristles,, pure white at base, some tipped with 

 fulvous, some with dark brown or black ; those of the chin pale 

 fulvous, nearly white ; over each eye a distinct broad whitish 

 band, formed by pure white feathers narrowly tipped with 

 yellowish brown, which again in most is narrowly fringed with 

 black, some nearest the eyes also edged throughout their length 

 with yellowish brown ; feathers of the head and nape pale 

 yellowish rusty, each traversed by three or four narrow 

 irregular light brown lines ; interscapulars and feathers of the 

 back and rump colored and marked like the plumage of the 

 head and nape, but the brown transverse bands are broader and 

 fewer ; scapulars the same, but a few more or less pure white, 

 mottled towards the tip with the prevailing tints ; ear-coverts 

 and cheeks principally white, with brown and ruddy fulvous 

 markings ; throat-feathers albescent, with one or more narrow 

 brown cross bands ; a half collar below the throat of feathers 

 marked and colored like those of the nape ; breast-feathers 

 tipped with brown, a subterminal band of pale fulvous, then 

 a brown band followed by a much broader pure white band ; 

 abdominal feathers white, tipped with an irregular ocellated 

 mark, centred with pale rusty fulvous and encircled with brown, 

 then a broad white band with a basal and narrower brown band ; 

 in many of the abdominal feathers the ocellated markings are 

 replaced by an irregular cross band of mixed fulvous and 

 brown; under tail-coverts white, with faint subterminal 

 fulvous-brown bands ; tarsus clothed with white feathers, faintly 

 barred with pale brown ; ground color of the primaries and 

 secondaries brown, each quill traversed by three or more 

 pale rufo-fulvous narrow bands more or less complete; the 

 brown intervals towards the apices of the primaries and on 

 their outer webs much freckled with rufo-fulvous ; on the 

 outer web of the second, third, and fourth primaries the pale 

 rufo-fulvous bands change to fulvous white or pure white; 

 under wing-coverts greyish white; median rectrices marked 

 and colored like the apices of the primaries, laterals with clear 

 rufo-fulvous bands running through, all tipped, like the median 

 shoulder-edge, white ; tarsi feathered to within an eighth of an 

 inch of the base of the toes ; fourth and fifth quills equal ; third 

 slightly longer than sixth. 



