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NISUS GUTTATUS. 



Sparviusguttahis Vikiix. N. D. x, 1817, 325.— Pucher. E. Z. 1850, 13. 



AccijjUer guttatus Stuicki.. Orn. Sya. i, 1855, 110.— Scl. & Salv. Ex. Orn. xi, 1H69, 



169, 170, pi. Ixxv : Noni. Neotr. 1873, 120.— Gkay, Hand List, i, 1869, 33.— 



SiiAKPE, Cat. Ace. B. M. 1874, 152. 

 Esparvero pardo y gotcado Azara, Pax. Par. i, 1802, 113. 



Hah. — Paraguay and Bolivia. 



" 31cde (nearly adnlt). — Above slaty grey, the bead blackish, the nape 

 varied with white ; wings dull brown, the quills barred with darker 

 brown, the interspaces asliy white below, so that the cross bars are more 

 distinct, inner secondaries slaty grejMike the back; tail ashy brown, 

 narrowly tipped with white, and crossed with four bars of darker brown, 

 lower surface asliy white, the bars more distinct except on. outermost 

 feather, where nearly obsolete; throat white, tinged with rufous, the 

 feathers narrowly centered with black shaft Hues ; rest of under surface 

 pale fawu-rufous, the thighs a little deeper-coloured, the breast mottled 

 with white spots and half-bars ; the sides of the face and neck clear 

 slaty grey, the sides of the upper breast washed with the same colour ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a few subterminal rufous spots ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries entirelj" pale rufous like the breast. Total 

 length 15.2 inches, culmen .G, wing 8.5, tail 6.8, tarsus 2.4. 



'■'-Adult female. — Similar to the male but larger. Total length 18 

 inches, wing 10.5, tail ^.b, tarsus 2.65." 



" i?«6.— Paraguay and Bolivia."— (Sharpe, I. c.) 



NISUS CHILENSIS. 



Acdinter cMlensis Philippi &, Landr. Arch. f. Natnig. 1864, 43.— Scl. P. Z. S. 1867' 

 329.— SCL. &, Salv. Ibis, 1868, 187 (Sandy Pt., Str. Magellan; Feb.); Ex- 

 Orn. V, 1868, 73, 170, pi. xxxvii (adult and young) ; xi, 170 ; Norn. Neotr. 1873, 

 120.— Gray, Hand List, i, 1869, 33.— Sharpe, Gat. Ace. B. M. 1874; 155. 

 Nisus ckilennis Gierel, Thes. Orn. 1872, 263. 



Acdpiter coojteri Pei.z. Orn. Nov. 1865, 13 (not of Bonap.). 



^fl&.— Chile (Kat. Mus.) ; Straits of Magellan (King). 



Wing, 8.25-9.90 ; tail, 7.65-8.50; culinen, 0.50-0.70; tarsus, 2.25-2.65 ; 

 middle toe, 1.40-1.70. Fourth and tilth quills longest; first shortest ; 

 outer five with inner webs emarginated. Tail slightly rounded. 



Adult female (specimen in Mus. Philad. Acad.*) : — Above, sooty slate- 

 color, darker anteriorly ; tail narrowly tipped with white, and crossed 

 with five or six bands of black. Tibiie plain rufous ; crissum immacu- 

 late white ; other lower parts except throat barred or transversely 

 spotted with umber-brown, these markings tinged with rufous and 

 slate-color, and connected by dark shaft-streaks. Wing, 9.05 ; tail, 8.50 ; 

 culinen, 0.70; tarsus, 2.50; mi<ldle toe, 1.70. 



Young male (No. 32,978, Nat. Mus.) : — Above, dark grayish-sepia, grow- 

 ing gradually darker anteriorly; all the feathers with terminal bor- 

 ders of lusty-ochraceous, these whiter on the ends of the secondaries; 

 scapulars, larger wing and upper tail-coverts with concealed white spot 

 ting. Occipital feathers white, with terminal cuneate or tear-shaped spots 

 of brownish-black, but the white mostly concealed. Nuchal feathers 

 light tawny-ochraceous, similarly but more broadly marked. Tail gray- 

 ish-brown, narrowly tipped with white, and crosssd by five bands of 

 dusky black, about as wide as the brown interspaces. Lower parts 

 white, tinged with ochraceous-yellow on the breast, and with dilute 



" This specimen is labeled, in Mr. Gassiu's handwriting, "F. linnm, nobis". 



