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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



forming a narrow wedge running along inner side, next to shaft, 

 the edge of inner web of these rectrices also notched with white; a 

 white orbital ring (interrupted immediately above and below eye) 

 the sides of head otherwise more dusky than the general color, espe- 

 cially on loral and suborbital regions; chin, throat, and chest brown, 

 like upper parts; breast paler brown, with a more or less distinct 

 band of white across upper portion, the brown passing gradually 

 into, or at least not abruptly contrasted with, the geranium red or 

 deep geranium pink of remaining under parts;'* maxilla blackish, 

 sometimes paler at tip; mandible yellowish brown or brownish; feet 

 brownish; length (skin), 285-310 (302); wing, 136-157.5 (142.8); 

 tail, 175-200 (184.5); culmen, 14.5-17 (15.9); tarsus, 14-16 (15.2); 

 inner anterior toe, 13-15 (14.2).^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but with wliite tail- 

 markings as in adult female, the middle pair of rectrices metallic 

 green, narrowly tipped, or mottled at tip, with pale buffy brown or 

 cinnamon.'' 



Immature female. — Similar to the adult female, but middle pair of 

 rectrices narrowly tipped with buff or whitish (instead of black), 

 and proximal greater wing-coverts and secondaries (tertials) more 

 or less (sometimes conspicuously) spotted with pale buff. 



Young (first plumage). — Head, neck, chest, back, and scapulars 

 plain tawny-brown or raw umber, the suborbital region dusky; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts lighter and more rufescent brown (nearly 

 cinnamon) the feathers narrowly and indistinctly tipped with dusky; 

 under parts, posterior to chest, brownish buff or clay color, barred 

 or transversely spotted with brown; wing-coverts and tertials each 

 with a very large roundish spot of pale buff, margined with blackish; 

 primaries and rectrices as in the immature female. 



« Sometimes the brown feathers of the breast are narrowly tipped with paler, pro- 

 ducing an indistinctly barred appearance. 

 b Fourteen specimens. 



c In still younger specimens the proximal greater coverts and secondaries (tertials) 

 have terminal spots of buff or whitish and the upper breast partly light brownish 

 (sometimes narrowly barred). 



