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side of the head, below the eyes, including the malar region and chin, pnre white ; rest of neck, 

 entire upper parts, sides, and flanks, rich chestnut-rufous or purplish-feiTuginous ; wing-coverts 

 and middle of the rump dusky grayish brown, mmutely mottled with paler ; reniiges dull brownish 

 dusky ; rectrices brownish black, the shafts deep black ; lower parts white on the surface, but the 



Male. 



concealed portion of all the feathers dark brownish gray, showing when the feathers are disarranged, 

 and in midsummer specimens completely exposed by abrasion of the tips of the feathers ; jugulum 

 strongly washed with fulvous-buff, this sometimes invading the abdomen. Lower tail-coverts 

 entirely white, to the roots of the feathers. " Bill and edges of the eyelids grayish blue ; iris 



Female. 



hazel ; feet dull grayish blue, webs inclining to dusky ; claws grayish bro^^Tl " (Audubon). Adult 

 female : Top of the head, down to below the eyes, and upper parts generally, dusky grayish brown, 

 minutely freckled with pale grayish fulvous (more reddish on the head) ; remainder of the head 

 dirty grayish white, crossed longitudinally by a stripe of speckled dusky, running from the rictus 

 back across the auriculars, parallel with the lower edge of the brown of the top of the head ; neck 

 pale brownish gray, fading gradually into the white of the chin ; lower parts, except sides and 

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