S24 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
and Godman; it is a slightly older bird than No. 1, but 
closely resembles it, with the following exceptions :—the patch 
of dark colouring on the crown of the head is larger and 
more tinged with black, but the feathers on the outer cir- 
cumference of this patch or cap are partially white, and all 
the remainder are narrowly tipped with whitish brown ; the 
white feathers on the lowest row of the nuchal collar are ~ 
mingled with brown, and the rufous edgings of the inter- 
scapulars are narrower than in the nestling ; the broad dark 
transverse bands on the tail are three in number, with two 
lighter brown interspaces, and, lastly, a few of the tibial fea- 
thers show a very narrow dark shaft-mark. 
No. 8 is another Ecuador specimen in the collection of 
Messrs. Salvin and Godman, very similar to No. 2, but with 
fewer of the dark feathers on the crown showing the whitish 
edge, and with no dark shaft-marks on the tibial feathers. 
In this example the interscapulars have conspicuous rufous 
edges, as in No. 1, and the tail is crossed by four dark bars, 
of which the uppermost is concealed by the tail-coverts, and 
by three pale interspaces in addition to the pale tip. 
In the adult birds of this species the greyish white of the 
upper breast is interrupted, for about an inch on either side, 
by a tuft of slaty-black feathers springing from below the 
wing at the shoulder-joint; im specimen No. 3 one feather 
of these tufts is appearing, on the left side only, amongst 
the pure white breast-plumage; but this feather is of . 
a dark brown hue, instead of being slaty black, as in the 
adult. 
No. 4 is from the same locality, and is preserved in the 
same collection as No. 3, to which it is very similar, but is in 
a slightly more advanced stage of plumage ; the pale tips to 
the blackish-brown feathers on the crown of the head are 
for the most part gone, and the dark tufts are beginning to 
appear on both sides of the upper breast. This specimen 
much resembles Temminck’s figure in the ‘ Planches Col.’ 
pl. 204*; but the latter shows very narrow dark shaft- 
* The name of “ Falco palliatus 2” is erroneously attached to this 
plate, 
