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black; rigid feathers at the base of the bill black, with pale grayish 

 terminations ; feathers immediately below the eye gray, mottled and 

 broadly tipped with black. 



" Discal feathers grayish white, many of them speckled, and all tipped 

 with black, presenting a white and black semi-collar or raff on each side 

 of the neck. Plumage of the throat with fine alternate bars of black 

 and nearly white. 



' ! Xeck above with a well-defined collar, the feathers composing 

 which are strongly fulvous, terminated with white and speckled with 

 black. 



u Back, rump, tail, and wing-coverts mottled and freckled with gray- 

 ish white, upou a black ground, many of the feathers having about three 

 to five very irregular transverse bands of whitish; on the wing-coverts 

 and back some of the pale marks are almost circular with black centres ; 

 others are of irregular form also enclosing centres of black. 



" External webs of the primaries black, with subquadrate nearly white 

 bars, nearly all of which have black centres, assuming, also, a more or 

 less well defined square form. Internal webs of primaries with alter- 

 nate bands of different shades of black. 



" Breast and entire inferior parts pale fulvous, every feather conspicu- 

 ously marked on the shaft longitudinally with black, and with very 

 irregular transverse bands and irregularly mottled with black ; the 

 black markings most numerous aud most irregular ou 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 color at the base, whitish at the tip. 



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



"Younger? Piumage above paler, with small spots' aud 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. 



" Eab. South America. 



"This species bears some resemblance to Ephialites atricMpilla. (JSatt.) 

 Temm. pi. col. 145, but is much larger, and has only one nuchal collar. 

 The general color above is also much darker; the fulvous colouring of 

 the inferior surface of the body is also a striking difference. 



"One specimen of this species in the Kivoli collection is labelled k Ore- 

 noque', and another in the collection of the Academy is probably from 

 South America." 



The description given in the Journal of the Philadelphia Academy 

 (vol. ii, p. 95) is essentially the same as the above. 



Proc. Nat. Mas. 7S 7 August fio, 1878. 



