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more or less well-defined square form. Internal webs of primaries 

 with alternate bands of different shades of black. 



Breast and entire inferior parts pale fulvous, every feather con- 

 spicuously marked on the shaft longitudinally with black, and with 

 very irregular transverse bands and irregularly mottled with black ; 

 the black markings most numerous and most irregular on the breast. 

 Many of the feathers on the breast with very pale nearly white spots, 

 having somewhat the appearance of being distributed in pairs. 



Tail black, with about seven or eight narrow irregular grayish 

 bands, many of which have central lines of black. 



Tarsi feathered to the toes, pale fulvous white, mottled with black. 



Bill horn-colour at the base, whitish at the tip. 



Total length (of skin) about 9| inches, wing 7, tail 3J. 



Younger ? Plumage above paler, with small spots and minute 

 freckles of grayish white, scarcely assuming the appearance of bands. 



Breast with the dark markings predominating, and tending to 

 form a broad pectoral band ; lower parts of the body bright fulvous 

 with black marks. 



Hab. South America. 



This species bears some resemblance to Ephialtes atricapilla (Natt.), 

 Temm. PI. Col. 145, but is much larger, and has only one nuchal 

 collar. The general colour above is also much darker ; the fulvous 

 colouring of the inferior surface of the body is also a striking dif- 

 ference. 



One specimen of this species in the Rivoli collection is labeled 

 " Orenoque," and another in the collection of the Academy is pro- 

 bably from South America. 



I have named this bird in honor of Gavin Watson, M.D , of this 

 city, a gentleman of extensive knowledge of natural history, much 

 attached to the study of the American Raptores, and an especial 

 admirer of the Owls. 



Syrnium albogularis, nobis. Entire plumage above deep umber- 

 brown, every feather more or less finely vermiculated and minutely 

 spotted with black ; on the head also transversely lined and spotted 

 with pure white, especially in the region of the occiput, where upon 

 some feathers the white spots are disposed regularly in pairs upon 

 the opposite webs. 



Feathers of the back and rump having also three or four irregular 

 transverse lines, and irregularly spotted with pale brownish nearly 

 white. Scapulars broadly barred and edged with white. 



Lesser wing-coverts with irregular lines of pale brownish, and 

 with large white marks on their external webs. Primaries with their 

 external webs nearly black, with about eight to twelve square spots 

 or bands of fulvous. Internal webs of primaries plain black or with 

 obscure bands. 



Eyebrow white ; a large semicircular segment of white covering 

 the jaws and throat, interrupted at the base of the under mandible 

 by a few brownish feathers ; many of those white feathers conspi- 

 cuously tipped with black, forming a well-defined semicircular discal 

 collar or ruff. 



Breast with a broad band of the same umber-brown as the back, 



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