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upper tail-coverts paler and more buffy brown (wood brown or 

 Isabella color), the coverts sometimes narrowly tipped with paler: 

 middle pair of rectrices clear chestnut or deep cinnamon-rufous^ 

 sharply tipped with black, the next two pairs blackish brown, pass- 

 ing (more or less broadly) into chestnut or chestnut-brown on edge 

 of outer web; three lateral rectrices, on each side, broadly tipped 

 with white, the remaining portion white distally and on more or 

 less of outer web, brownish black or slate-black basally, the wliite 

 portion regularly and rather broadly barred with slate-black; mid- 

 dle and greater wing-coverts and secondaries light buffy brown, 

 very minutely freckled or vermiculated with dusky; alula, primary 

 coverts, and primaries dull blackish slate or slate-blackish, the pri- 

 maries more brownish terminally, the longer ones broadly edged with 

 white; loral and suborbital regions dull slate-blackish, relieved by 

 a conspicuous white orbital ring (interrupted on lower eyelid) and a 

 broad white bar across subterminal portion of auricular region, the 

 terminal portion of the latter black; malar region, chin, and throat 

 brownish gray or grayish brown, passing into broccoli brown or Isabella 

 color on chest; a broad band of white across upper breast, passing 

 laterally into pale buffy brownish, the lower breast pale buffy brown 

 or buffy grayish, passing into white posteriorly and on median portion 

 of abdomen (the brownish portion indistinctly barred with paler); 

 flanks and sides of abdomen pure geranium red, the under tail-coverts 

 similar but somewhat paler and usually tipped with pinkish white; 

 thighs grayish dusky, the feathers tipped with light grayish brown; 

 bill dull yellow; feet brownish or horn color (in dried skins) ; length 

 (skins), 267-287 (275); wing, 125-134.5 (131.3); tail, 160.5-185.5 

 171.3); culmen, 16-19 (17.3); tarsus, 13-15.5 (14.1); inner anterior 

 toe, 13.5-15.5 (14.6).« 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but middle rectrices 

 grayish brown basally, dull metallic bronze-green in middle portion, 

 cinnamon brown or russet terminally ; next two pairs brownish black 

 on inner web and terminal portion of outer web, the outer web mostly 

 dark sepia brown; lateral rectrices with pattern as in adult female, 

 but bars usually less regular; vermiculated wing-coverts and sec- 

 ondaries tinged or stained with pale buffy brown; chest mostly 

 grayish brown; breast as in adult female, but intermixed laterally 

 with bright geranium red ; maxilla yellowish horn color. (In younger 

 individuals the proximal greater wing-coverts and secondaries have 

 large terminal spots of buffy wliite, the ground color of the coverts 

 and secondaries more buffy, the chest wholly brown, breast without 

 any red, posterior under parts pink or whitish, and with a white 

 auricular patch and incomplete orbital ring, as in adult female.) 



o Seven specimens. 



