149 

 MORrHNUS GUrANENSIS. 



Petit Aiijle de Giiiane Mauduyt, Euc. Mt^th. 1784, 1257. 



Faico (iniuue)isis Daud. Traitd Orn. ii, 1800, 78 (ex Maiuluyt), (jiiv.). 



AJorphntis (/uianoifii^ CuviER, Keg. Au. i, 1817, 318.— Gkay, Gen. B. i, 184.5, 15; 

 Hand List, i, 1869, 16.— Boxap. Cousp. Av. i, l<iO, 30.— Sthickl. Oru. Syn. i, 

 18.55, 24.— BuKM. Th. Bras, ii, 1856, 66.— Pelz. Orn. Bras. 1871, 4, 397.— Scl. & 

 Salv. Nom. Neotr. 1873, 120.— Ridgw. Pr. Boston Soc. 1873, 71,— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Ace. Brit. Mns. 1874, 222. 

 Uarjiyia [/uianeusis Swains. Classif. B. ii, 1837, 203. 

 Tlvasattus gidaucnsis Kaup, Mns. Senck. iii, 1845, 260. 

 Astttr giiianensis Schi.eg. Mns. Pays-Bas, Astares, 1862, 25. 

 Falco sounini Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii, 1809, 67. 



Alorplinus sonnini Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii, 1825, 18. 

 Falco (Micatus Shaw, /. c. 1809,67. 

 Splzal'tus variegatas Vieill. Enc. M(?th. iii, 1823, 1257. 

 Morphuis crisiattis Less. Tr. 1831', 51, t. ii, f. 2. 



EaJ). — Xortbern South America; Br, Guiana (ISchomb.) ; Peruvian 

 Andes (Baetlett) ; Upper Amazon (Wallace) ; New Granada (Xat. 

 Mus.) ; Panama {Jide Shaepe). 



Wing, 17.50-20.25 : tail, 15.00-18,00; culmeu, 1.35-1.40 ; tarsus, 4.00 

 -4.60; middle toe, 1.80-2.10. Adult:— {!.) Prevailing color brownish- 

 black, uniform above, the lower parts everywhere transversely banded, 

 with white, the bars about 0.25 wide, and about equal in width to the 

 black ones. Secondaries and primaries with indistinct broad bauds of 

 lighter brownish-dusky. Tail black, crossed by about five bands of 

 mottled grayish,* and narrowlj' tipped with white. Upper tail-coverts 

 tipped with white (Xo. 17781, ^ , Nat. Mus. Truando, New Granada ; Dr. 

 Schott). (11.) Generally similar, but head, neck, and breast uniform 

 brownish-ash, the crest-feathers black subterminally. Beneath white^ 

 with more or less distinct and continuous bars of rufous, chieflj' on the 

 tibiae, abdomen, and crissum. Tail with only three gray bands (exclu- 

 sive of the narrower terminal one), these sometimes nearly equal in 

 width to the black ones. (III.) Similar, but white of the lower parts 

 without any trace of bars. Young. — Head, neck, and lower parts 

 uniform white; wing-coverts finely mottled with light ash, and the 

 whole upper surface much variegated with the same. Tail more con- 

 fusedly and narrowly banded, the black and ashy bands about equal in 

 width. 



List of specimens in United States Xational Museum. 



Catalogne- 

 naiuber. 



Sex and 

 ase. 



Locality. 



From whom received. 



cT ad. 



Xew Granada (Truando) . 



Arthur Schott. 



Other specimens examined. — In mns. Philad. Acad., 3; Boston Soc, 3 ; total number 

 examined, 7. 



* Tliese bands grosviu'; gradually broader terminally. 



