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and throat also) faintly barred or flecked with dusky, the auricular 

 region with narrow shaft-streaks of wliitish; under tail-coverts 

 broadly tipped or terminally margined with white; maxilla brownish 

 black, mandible grayish or brownish (bluish gray in life?); legs and 

 feet horn color (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 129-151 (141); 

 wuig, 66.5-74 (69.6); tail, 51.5-60 (55.1); culmen, 16.5-21 (19.7); 

 tarsus, 19.5-22 (20.6); middle toe, 12.-5-14.5 (13.2).« 



Adult female. — General color of upper parts olive-brown, the 

 pileum more rufescent (more russet or mars brown); interscapulars 

 with much concealed white; upper tail-coverts dull chestnut-brown, 

 usually tipped (more or less distinctly) with pale buffy brown or 

 buffy; tail dark chestnut-brown, the rectrices tipped with white or 

 buffy, the exterior pair with a quadrate spot of white or buffy on 

 outer web beyond middle portion; wings dusky, all the wing-coverts 

 conspicuously tipped with pale buff or buffy white, tertials broadly 

 edged with the same, the remaining remiges edged with russet or 

 brown (becoming paler and more buffy on outer primaries) ; sides of 

 head, chin, and throat pale olive-buffy, the auricular region with 

 narrow shaft-streaks of whitish or pale buffy; rest of under parts 

 plain light buffy olive (sometimes approachmg wood brown) the 

 middle of abdomen paler and more yellowish or buffy, the under 

 tail-coverts more rufescent or cinnamomeous; bill and feet as in adult 

 male; length (skins), 132-150 (141.1); wing, 64-70.5 (67.5); tail, 

 50-58.5 (54.1); culmen, 18-20 (18.8); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); middle 

 toe, 12-14 (13.2).«' 



a Twenty specimens. 



b Twenty-one specimens. 



