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most of the feathers show narrow indistinct brownish tips ; 
the primaries are black below the level of the emargination, 
above which they are crossed with irregular alternate bars of 
darker and lighter grey; the secondaries and tertiaries are 
similarly but more regularly barred throughout, and with the 
paler bars darker than those on the primaries; all the secon- 
daries and tertiaries have a broad dark tip, narrowly edged 
at the extremity of each with a shade of pale brown, which is 
also just perceptible on the tips of the primaries; the tail is 
white, but with a tinge of grey on the external webs of all 
the rectrices except the central ones, this tinge being deepest 
on the outermost pair, the tail is also barred with eight nar- 
row and irregularly dark transverse lines, which are more 
distinct on the outer than on the central rectrices, and least 
so on the latter as they approach the upper tail-coverts ; below 
these transverse lines there is a broad black band, succeeded 
by a much narrower band of greyish brown, below which the 
tail is narrowly tipped with white. 
The breast and wing-linings are of a slate-colour, resem- 
bling that of the head, neck, and throat ; the feathers of the 
bastard wing are barred on their under side with alternate 
markings of darker and lighter grey, succeeded by a dark 
slaty tip; the outer axillaries are dark grey, the inner ax- 
illaries similar, but with irregular white transverse bars di- 
_vided by dark shaft-marks ; the under surface of the remiges 
resembles the upper surface, but with the inner webs near the 
base finely mottled with intermingled white and grey; the 
abdomen and thighs grey, but with many of the feathers, 
especially on the thighs, transversely barred with white; the 
under tail-coverts resemble the upper tail-coverts, both in 
colour and in markings. ; 
No. 2, from the mountain region of Merida, in Venezuela, 
and marked as a female by the collector, only differs from 
No. 1 in the following particulars, viz.:—the lesser wing- 
coverts and scapulars, especially the former, are tinged with 
rufous, which also appears, though less decidedly, on the 
rump, bastard wing, axillary feathers, and abdomen; the 
thighs are dark rufous, crossed by narrow bars of white, the 


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