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aa. Black bands on upperparts, especially interscapulars and upper back, nar- 

 rower than interspaces ; interspaces gray, not bufly. 

 6. Upper tail coverts black crossed by exceedingly narrow white transverse 



lines Eurypyga helias major (p. 236) 



66. White cross bars on upper tail coverts wider, half or more as wide as 

 black interspaces Eurypyga helias meridionalis (extralimital)" 



EURYPYGA HELIAS MAJOR Hartlaub 



Gbbateb Sun-bitteen 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, crown, occiput, lores, cheeks, and 

 auriculars sooty black with, in some lights, a very faint fuscous- 

 bronze sheen; a narrow line from just behind the nostril extending 

 back over the eye and to the posterolateral angle of the occiput cin- 

 namon to tawny-olive in its anterior part and pure white speckled 

 with black from the anterior end of the eye backward; hind neck 

 anteriorly whitish closely vermiculated with sooty black, posteriorly 



(Cayenne) ; Pelzeln Orn. Bras., 1871, 300 (Goyabeira; Engenho do Pari; ViUa 

 Maria ; Caigera ; Engenho do Gama ; Matto Grosso ; Villa de Manaos ; Cajutuba ; 

 Brazil) ; Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884, 440 (Angostura, Venezuela) ; Journ. ; fur Orn., 

 1889, 320 (Yurimaguas, Bolivia) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 177 (Bartica Grove and Ca- 

 macusa, British Guiana) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 240 (Deme- 

 rara, Bartica Grove, and Camacusa, British Guiana ; Cayenne Engenho do Gama, 

 Brazil) ; Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1900, 289 (descr. eggs) ; Hellmayr, 

 Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 100 (Eio Araguaya, Brazil) ; Chubb. Birds British Guiana, i, 

 1916, 142 (habits) ; Cherrie, Brooklyn Inst. Sci. Bull. 2, 1916, 868 (Rio Orinoco, 

 Venezuela). — Euirypyga} helias Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, pt. i, 1826, 

 323 (Guiana) ; Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixii, 1918, 42 (Para- 

 maribo, Surinam) ; Chubb, Ibis, 1919, 269 (San Ernesto, 1,000 m., and Charup- 

 laya, 1,300 m., Bolivia) ; Delacour, Ibis, 1923, 140 (Guarico and Apure, Venez- 

 uela; habits). — [Eurypyga] helias Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 

 141. — E\urypyga'\ helias Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brltlsch Guiana, iii, 

 1848, 752. — iEuripyga'] helias Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857, 144. — Eurypiga 

 helias Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1904, 451 (Rio .lurua, Sao Paulo, Brazil). — 

 Seolopaw Solaris Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 48 (based on La Goural Daubeu- 

 ton, PI. Enl., ix, pi. 782). — [Eurypygal Solaris Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 26, 

 No. 10096. — Helias phalenoides Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., v, 1816, 423 (new 

 name for Ardea helias PaUas) ; Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 570. — Eurypyga 

 phalenoides Goudot, Mag. Zool., 1843, pi. 38 (egg). — Eurypyga helias helias 

 Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 216. 



"^ Eurypyga helias (not Ardea heUas Pallas) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. ZooL 

 Soc. London, 1866, 199 (upper Rio Ucayali, e. Peru) ; 1867, 979 (Pebas, e. Peru) ; 

 1873, 308 (Rio Javari, Cashiboya, and Pebas, e. Peru) ; Taczanowski, Orn. P6rou, 

 iii, 1886, 388; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 240, part (Pebas, e. 

 Peru). — Eurypyga major meridionalis Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1902 (publ. Oct.), 50 (La Merced, Chanchamayo, e. Peru; coll. Branicki 

 Mus.) ; Ornis, xlii, 1906, 125 (Huaynapato, e. Peru) ; Chapman, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 BuU. 117, 1921, 51 (Rio Cosireni and Inca Mine, se. Peru). — Eurypyga meri- 

 dionalis Chubb, Ibis, 1919, 270 (Orayci, Rio Linimbare, centr. Peru, 1,000 m.). — 

 Eurypyga helms meridionalis Petebs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 215. 



