314 ME. E. B. SHABPE ON THE 



nutely tipped with ochre-yellow, some of the plumes on the crown 

 with verditer-blue, those of the nape with tiny spots of ochre ; a 

 line from the base of the nostril to above the fore part of the eye 

 whitish, with a bluish tinge ; feathers round the eye black ; ear- 

 coverts fulvous, the feathers edged with black, a broad streak of 

 which runs along the cheeks ; sides of neck and a collar round 

 the hind neck white ; back brownish black, largely spotted with 

 ochre, somewhat shaded with greenish, the feathers being all 

 tipped with this colour ; wing-coverts coloured like the back, the 

 greater series rich ochre at their tips ; quills brown, the seconda- 

 ries edged with rufous brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts dark brown, tipped with ochre ; tail-feathers brown, ob- 

 scurely edged with greenish and tipped with dull ochre ; entire 

 under surface of body buffy white, including the under wing- 

 coverts.; sides of body brown, tipped with reddish ochre. 



Pam. BucBEOTiD^. 



20. EuTTiDOCEBOS ETJEiCGLLis. — E. ruficollis (V.) ; Salvad. 

 t. c. p. 19. 



a, I. Aleya, March 1876. 



A pair of young birds in fully adult plumage. 



Fam. Capeimitlgidje. 



21. Capeimulgtjs maceuetjs. — C. macrurus, jffors/! ; Salvad. 

 t. c. p. 23. 



a. Yule Island, April 1876. Iris very dark, cornea very convex 

 and projecting ; bill black ; feet and tarsi dark lead-colour. 



22. JEooTHELES BEKNETTT. — M. benuetti, Salvad. Sc JJ Albert. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii. p. 817 ; Salvad. loc. cit. ix. p. 23. 



a, h. Aleya, April 1876. Eyes dark hazel ; feet and tarsi 

 almost white. 



General colour above grisly browm, minu.tely vermiculated with 

 greyish white ; the head blacker than the back, a few feathers here 

 and there vermiculated in the same manner with white, the mark- 

 ings on the hinder neck somewhat more coarsely indicated and 

 marking a faint collar ; wing-coverts exactly resembling the back ; 

 quills nearly uniform dark brown, faintly notched with greyish 

 white on the outer web, the secondaries minutely vermiculated 

 and resembling the rest of the back ; tail blackish, with remains 

 of ten faintly indicated bars of greyish white, the bars vermicu- 

 lated and of unequal width ; rictal bristles black, greyish white at 



