. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 01. LEPTODON. 329 white ; rest of tail black, tipped with white, before which a siibter- miual bar of asliy brown ; cere aud orbits bright yellow; bill entirely black; feet deep yellow, claws black. Total length 18 inches, cul- men V5, wing 14-1, tail 8, tarsus 1-95. Young. Above dark brown, the wing-coverts margined and ex- ternally spotted with rufous ; forehead, eyebrow, and cheeks whitish, narrowly streaked with dark brown; crown slightly varied with rufous; hinder part of ear-coverts and sides of neck dark brown, the latter feathers margined
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 01. LEPTODON. 329 white ; rest of tail black, tipped with white, before which a siibter- miual bar of asliy brown ; cere aud orbits bright yellow; bill entirely black; feet deep yellow, claws black. Total length 18 inches, cul- men V5, wing 14-1, tail 8, tarsus 1-95. Young. Above dark brown, the wing-coverts margined and ex- ternally spotted with rufous ; forehead, eyebrow, and cheeks whitish, narrowly streaked with dark brown; crown slightly varied with rufous; hinder part of ear-coverts and sides of neck dark brown, the latter feathers margined with white, and looking as if streaked; quills dark brown, barred with black, the secoudaries tipped with pale rufous, inner surface of quills white at the base, with more or less irregidar bars of dark brown; rump, upper tail-coverts, and base of tail white; rest of tail dark brown, paler aud more ashy underneath, tipped with pale bfown ; under surface of body whitish, the throat narrowly, the breast very broadly streaked with dark brown, the sides of chest and flanks entirely brown, scarcely at all varied with white; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark brown, margined and barred with rufous. 06s. On comparing adults of R. leucopygus with R. sociabilis in the Leiden Museum, I noted that the former is a much larger and blacker bird, and is further distinguished by having the base of tail and the terminal band on the same, as well as the upper and under tail-coverts, white. Young birds measured as follows:— J (no. 1 of Schlegel's Cat.), wing 13"6 inches, tail 7*9, tarsus 1-85 ; 2 (^o. 2 of Cat.), wing 14, tail 8, tarsus 1-9. JIab. Florida and Antilles; Guiana; Columbia; Amazonia and Brazil. a. Juv. St. b. Juv. sk. c. Juv. St. d. Ad. St. e. Juv. sk. /. Juv. sk. g. Ad. St. British Guiana. Demerara. Bogota. Bogota. Pebas, Aug. Venezuela. S. America. i, 1872. Sir R. Schomburgk [P.]. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. Purchased. Purchased. J. HauxweU, Esq. [C.]. Purchased. Pm'chased
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