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d. Breast deeper buff, not touched with red; back, etc., browner gray. 



Granatellus francescae, adult female (p. 701) 

 dil. Breast paler buff, or whitish, with touches of red; back, etc., clearer gray. 



Granatellus francescae, immature, male (ji. 701) 

 hb. Lateral rectrices not extensively white, the terminal portion, only, dull white, 

 not sharply defined. 

 c. Darker, with supra-auricular stripe and chest deep buff or ochraceous-buff. 



Granatellus sallsei sallaei, adult female (]i. 702) 

 cc. Paler, with supra-auricular stripe and cheat cream buff. 



Granatellus sallaei boncardi, adult female (p. 703) 



GRANATELLUS VENUSTUS Bonaparte. 

 DU BUS' RED-BREASTED CHAT. 



Adult male. — Pileum, except laterallv and anteriorly, hindncck, sside.M 

 of neck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts plain bluish gray or deep plumbeous, slightly more bluish on 

 crown and occiput, the concealed portion of tertials darker; i^rimaries 

 and pi-oximal secondaries dusky, edged with bluish gray; tail lilack, 

 the outermost rectrix with outer web white, except at base, the inner 

 web with nearly the terminal half white, this extending much farther 

 towai'd base next to the shaft than on edge of the web; second rectrix 

 with a large wedge-shaped terminal patch of white, the third with a 

 smaller terminal spot, the fourth sometimes with a very small white 

 spot at tip; forehead, sides of crown and occiput, lores, su))orbitaland 

 auricular regions, and collar extending from the latter ac^'oss upper 

 chest, black; abroad supra-auricular stripe (or elongated patch), malar 

 region, chin, throat, sides, and flanks white; lower chest, breast, abdo- 

 men, and under tail-coverts pure vermilion red; thighs slate color; 

 maxilla dusky horn color with paler tomia; mandible paler (bluish 

 gray in life ?); iris white;' legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 130-135 (133); wing, 60-63 (61.3); tail, 67-69 

 (67.8); exposed culraen, 1^-12:,5 (12.^); tarsus, 19-20 (20); middle toe, 

 10.5-12 (11.2).^ 



Adult femali\ — Above plain slate-gray, the remiges more brownish 

 gray; tail as in the adult male, but duller black, with the white areas 

 on lateral rectrices somewhat more restricted; forehead and lores 

 wood brown, blending gradually into the gray of the crown; a supra- 

 auricular stripe of light ochraceous-buflf; auricular region buffy gray- 

 ish; malar region, chin, and throat dull white, tinged with buff, 

 especially the first; chest, breast, and abdomen buff, the first slightly 

 tinged with pink along the upper margin; under tail-coverts salmon 

 pink or flesh color; sides and flanks buffy white; bill and feet as in 



' Xantus, manuscript. (Probably an error. ) 

 '' Three specimens. 



