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insisted on as a character^ after the experience of its occurrence in a greater 

 or less degree in other parts of the world. The number of bars on the tail 

 is a much more reliable one. 



8\ A specimen collected by M. Salle is very closely and numerously 

 veined with wavy lines on the breast ; bars seven in number, both on the 

 wings and tail. Total length 13 inches, wing 10-0, tail 5-9, tarsus 2*5, middle 

 toe 1-3. 



€. Another specimen is not quite so typical, but has also seven bars on 

 the tail, not so many distinguishable on the wing. Total length 12-5 inches, 

 wing 10*9, tail 5*7, tarsus 27, middle toe 1'5. 



New Granada, The Museum possesses two specimens from Bogota, 

 neither of them exactly like the South- American birds, but approaching 

 more closely to the Jamaican form. The under surface is pure white, almost 

 unspotted, and the wings and tail are white, on the latter some coarse vermi- 

 culations of brown, apparently the remains of bars. Total length 12'5-13 

 inches, wing 12-8-13-4, tail 5-2-5-5, tarsus 2-75-2*95, middle toe r35-l-4. 



Ecuador. Fraser met with it at Quito in May 1859, where it is said to 

 breed in the church-towers of the city, and again at Puellaro, where he got 

 a specimen from the roof of his house (^cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 82, 96). 



Guiana. Sir Robert Schomburgk says that in British Guiana it was 

 only noticed by him on the coast itself, and in point of fact was only observed 

 in the houses of the colonized towns and in the plantation-buildings (Reis. 

 Guian. iii. p. 732). 



Specimens from Surinam are in the Ley den and Lisbon Museums ; and 

 in the British Museum is an example from Cayenne, presented by Mr. Rothery. 

 Total length 14 inches, wing 13*1, tail 51, tarsus 2*95, middle toe 1-5. 



Brazil, and remainder of South America. Prince Maximilian considers the 



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