214 curucui. 



outer one shortest ; the tail consists of twelve feathers ; the eight 

 middle ones equal in length, being five inches ; the outmost but one 

 four inches; the exterior two inches and three quarters; the two 

 middle ferruginous at the ends, with one-sixth of the end black ; the 

 three next on each side dusky, with the outer edge tawny; the fourth, 

 fifth, and exterior obliquely white, for one inch or more, at the tips, 

 and freckled with dusky ; from the base to the middle wholly dusky ; 

 the quills reach one-fourth beyond the base; legs brown. Supposed 

 a female. 



Another, thought to be a male, answered as to general description, 

 except, that all the parts beneath were pale crimson, and the tail, 

 though marked in the same manner, had the colours more pure and 

 distinct, but without the white band on the breast. 



The two last in the collection of General Davies. These seem, in 

 many points, to coincide with the Fasciated Species, and most 

 probably the difference of plumage arises merely from the circum- 

 stance of age or sex. 



