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CINEREOUS CURUCUI. 

 (Trogon strigilatus.) 



Tr. cinereus, abdomine Julvo, alis strigis albis, rectricibus nigris, 



tribus later alibus extus albo fasciatis apice albis. 

 Cinereous Curucui, with a fulvous abdomen; wings striated with 



white; tail-feathers black, the three lateral ones outwardly 



banded and tipped with white. 

 Trogon strigilatus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 167. 1. — Gmel. Syst.Nat. 



1.402.— Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 200. 4. 

 Trogon cayanensis cinereus. Bris. 4. 165. — 1. 16. 1. — Geo. 



Orn. 2. 53. 188. 

 Couroucou de la Guiane, Buff. Hist, Nat, Ois. 6. 293. — Buff. 



Pt.Enl.7Q5. 

 Cinereous Curucui. Lath, Syn. 2. 489. 3. 



Size of a Blackbird. Length twelve inches and 

 a half; beak one inch long and dark ash colour; 

 the general colour of the body dark ash, but more 

 so on the legs and thighs ; belly and under tail- 

 coverts of a fine orange yellow ; scapulars, upper 

 wing-coverts, and the greater ones close to the 

 body, blackish, striated transversely with narrow 

 white lines ; those farthest from the body plain ; 

 under wing-coverts dark ash, margined with white ; 

 greater quills blackish ; the five first have white 

 margins two-thirds of their length ; secondaries 

 blackish, but white at the base, and marked with 

 that colour on the exterior edge ; tail blackish, 

 the six middle feathers six inches and a quarter in 

 length ; the three exterior ones shorten gradually, 

 the most outward being two inches shorter than 



