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infra hanc lineam strigd nigrd angustd, ab occipite super oculum 
ductd vittam nigram facialem efficiente, deinde per mediam gulam 
excurrente, et super pectus totum diffusd ; capitis lateribus, sic et 
collo albis, hoc apud nucham strigis nigris longitudinalibus tri- 
plicitér ornato, quarum centrali latd, reliquis angustis. 
Fem. : vertice et dorso saturat? cerulescenti-cinereis, sic et colli 
lateribus, his albescente minute fasciatis ; genis infra oculos, guid, 
gutture, et corpore subtis e rufo castaneis. 
Male. Crown of the head blackish brown, surrounded by a nar- 
row stripe of white which unites with another line of white running 
at right angles down the sides of the face; beneath this a narrow 
line of black which terminates in a point at the occiput, and running 
over the eye joins a broader band of the same colour down the sides 
of the face, is continued down the centre of the throat and spreads 
over the chest; sides of the head and neck white, interrupted at 
the back of the neck by three longitudinal stripes of black, the centre 
one being broad and the lateral ones narrow; feathers of the back 
and scapularies much lengthened, and conspicuously margined with 
white, the centres being in some blackish brown, in others greyish 
brown; wings deep grey, with a beautiful green speculum, bounded 
above and below with a narrow irregular band of white, produced by 
the tips of the greater wing-coverts and secondaries being tipped 
with that colour; primaries brown; rump and upper tail-coverts 
greyish brown, finely freckled with zigzag lines of white; centre of 
the abdomen dull light chestnut brown, with a blackish brown mark 
down the centre of each feather ; flanks and under tail- coverts blackish 
brown ; tail brown; irides brown; bill reddish brown; feet brown. 
Female. Crown of the head, back and sides of the neck dark slate 
grey, the sides of the neck regularly barred with minute lines of 
greyish white; the elongated feathers of the back and scapularies 
margined with deep grey instead of white as in the male; lower 
part of the back deep slate grey ; upper tail-coverts the same, crossed 
by numerous minute bars of white; wings grey, the coverts tipped 
with white ; sides of the face below the eye, throat, and all the under 
surface rich reddish chestnut ; tail brown. 
Total length 183 inches; bill 13; wing 7; spur 3; tail5; tar- 
sus 13; middle toe 22. 
The female is rather less in all her admeasurements. 
The male from which the description is taken had some of the tail- 
feathers white, but this would seem to have been produced by wearing 
and exposure, as they were all old feathers. 
Mr. Waterhouse observed, that the Fox contained in Mr, Bridges’s 
Collection he felt little doubt is the Canis Azare, Pr. Max., but it 
differed from the specimen figured in the ‘ Zoology of the Voyage of 
the Beagle,’ in not having the black on the chin and angles of the 
mouth. 
