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Adult niah'.—^o. 115926, U.S.X.M.: Charles Island, April 8; C. H. 

 Towiiseud. Lores, ear coverts, occiput, bind neck, and remaining uj^per 

 parts uniform blackish brown, ^ becoming lighter, more grayish, brown 

 on lower rumj), upper tail-coverts, and tips of wing-coverts, the edges of 

 the secondaries still paler, and tips of secondaries, innermost primaries, 

 and tail-feathers pale grayish brown, passing on terminal margins into 

 brownish white; outermost tail-feather pale gTayish brown, its outer 

 web slightly paler and faintly tinged with pink. Entire pileum glossy 

 dark vermilion ; lower parts scarlet-vermilion, paler posteriorly (flesh 

 color on under tail-coverts), deepest on breast, and on throat somcAvhat 

 broken by exposure of white bases of the feathers; under wing-coverts 

 and axillars flesh color, the former mixed with dusky. Bill black, 

 the mandible somewhat brownish basally; legs and feet black. Length 

 (skin), 4,85; wing, 2.50; tail, 2; exposed culmen, 0.42; tarsus, 0.72; 

 middle toe, 0.40. 



Immature male— Iso. 115927, U.S.KM.; Charles Island, April 8; C. 

 H. Townsend. Above dusky brown (very much paler than in adult), 

 paler and grayer on rump and upper tail-coverts, many of the feathers 

 of lower back and scapulars showing very indistinct and narrow paler 

 tips; wings and tail as in the adult, but the former rather paler; fore- 

 head and fore part of crown whitish, tinged with flesh pink (especially 

 near nostrils), each feather marked with a rather broad mesial streak 

 of dusky brown, the hinder part of crown nearly uniform dusky, but 

 the feathers light vermilion or flesh red beneath the surface. Lores and 

 orbits dusky, the ear coverts paler and faintly tinged with flesh pink; 

 chin, throat, and malar region white, very faintly tinged with flesh 

 pink, especially on chin; rest of under parts flesh color, deepest on 

 flanks, x)aler on chest and breast, where narrowly streaked with dusky. 

 Bill and feet as in adult. Length (skin), 5; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.03; 

 exposed culmen, 0.45; tarsus, 0.71. 



Adult female. — Xo. 115928, U.S.ISr.M. ; same date, etc. Above gray- 

 ish olive, becoming gradually paler and more grayish (nearly " hair 

 brown") on ruin[) and upper tail-coverts; crown somewhat streaked 

 with paler; forehead, superciliary region, and malar region whitish, 

 tinged with butty yellowish. Chin and throat butty white; rest of 

 under parts deep butt'-yellow, the chest marked with a few very indis- 

 tinct dusky streaks. Bill and feet as in the male. Length (skin), 

 4.80; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.05; exposed culmen, 0,48; tarsus, 0.70; middle 

 toe, 0.40. 



An adult male in more worn plumage (No. 125988, U.S.N.M.; Charles 

 Island, April 1 ; C. H. Townsend) is, through fading, a more pronounced 

 brown color above than the example described above. The two other 

 adult females show no trace of streaks on tlie chest. 



■A little darker and warmer thau "clove brown." 

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