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with brownish margins ; tail of the same color as the back, partly 

 tinged with dull rufous, and crossed with four brown bars, three 

 of which are imperfect, being but little developed on the outer 

 webs, the outer bar, however, crosses both webs and is narrowlj' 

 tipped with white. Quill feathers brown, having their shafts, as 

 are also those of the tail feathers, reddish-brown ; cheeks dusky 

 ash ; space forward of the eye pale dull rufous; a line of whitish 

 feathers runs alon^ the ed<>e of the crown and extends over the 

 eye; throat ashy-white, tinged with rufous; sides of the neck, 

 upper part of the breast, and a band running to the hind-neck 

 grayish-ash ; lower portion of the breast and upper part of the 

 abdomen rufous, the feathers very narrowly edged with dull white ; 

 lower part of the abdomen of a pale rufous, with transverse bars 

 of dull white. Long feathers of the sides grayish-ash tinged with 

 rufous and destitute of bars or spots ; sides, just above the junc- 

 tion of the tail, plain rufous ; thighs of a bright but rather pale 

 rufous, the feathers having darker submarginal ends, terminating 

 with very narrow edgings of dull white; under wing-coverts and 

 axillars bright rufous barred with white. The feathers of the 

 throat, breast, and sides have their shafts dark brown ; upper tail 

 coverts grayish-ash, lower white ; bill horn-color, with a whitish 

 mark on the tooth and also on the edge of the lower mandible near 

 its base; legs greenish-yellow." 1 



" Length about 18 inches ; wing from flexure 9f ; tail 7f ; tarsus 

 2|." (Lawrence, 1. c.) 



Young male (41,129, Cuba, Dr. Gundlach) : Above dark, 

 blackish vandyke-brown, the feathers bordered inconspicuously 

 with dark rusty ; tail dull slate, narrowly tipped with ashy-white, 

 and crossed with four broad bands of dusky, almost equal to the 

 slate; beneath white, much tinged on breast and tibire with 

 reddish-ochraceous ; thickly striped with umber-brown, except on 

 crissum, the streaks on throat narrow and cuneate, those on 

 breast broad, and on sides changing into broad transverse spots 

 or bars; tibiae thickly spotted transversely with more reddish, 

 nearly rufous, brown ; larger lower tail-coverts with narrow shaft- 

 streaks of black. Occiput showing much concealed white, the 



1 Dr. Gundlach (Lawrence, 1. c. p. 7) adds : Cere and cheeks (*. e. orbits ?) 

 greenish yellow ; feet pale yellow with a greenish hue ; iris red ; length 

 0.457 ; extent 0.807. 



