770 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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

 narrowly tipped with blackish, wing-coverts and secondaries more 

 or less (according to age) spotted with pale buff or buffy whitish, 

 and red of under parts replaced (at least in part) by white. 



Young male."' — Head dull brownish gray, darker above, paler 

 beneath, more tinged with olive-brownish posteriorly; lores and 

 suborbital region blackish gray; a small spot on malar apex, a con- 

 spicuous orbital ring (interrupted on middle portion of upper eyehd 

 and on anterior half or more of lower lid) and broad bar crossing 

 obliquely the middle portion of auricular region pure white; back and 

 scapulars grayish brown (interspersed with a few metallic bronze- 

 green feathers of the adult plumage) ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 duU cinnamon-brown, mixed with a few feathers of pure metalliq 

 green (of adult livery) ; middle rectrices dusky, passing into dull cinna- 

 mon-brown on edges and toward tips (the latter narrowly black at 

 extremity) and glossed with coppery bronze; next two pairs of rec- 

 trices uniform black; two outer rectrices wdth outer webs pure wMte 

 (except basally) , barred with black, the inner webs chiefly black, but 

 passing into pure white terminally and on edges, the white portion 

 barred mth black; lesser and middle mng-coverts buffy wliite or 

 very pale buff, margined with black, producing conspicuous large 

 spots; greater coverts and tertials pale grayish buffy, minutely 

 freckled with dusky, and each terminated by a large spot of buffy 

 white (nearly pure white on tertials) ; secondaries dusky, edged with 

 freckled pale grayish buffy; primaries blackish dusky, edged with 

 pure wliite; breast, belly, sides, flanks, anal region, and lower tail- 

 coverts dull white or grayish white, marked with rather broad but 

 more or less irregular transverse bars of grayish brown, this nearly 

 uniform on sides of breast, the flanfe, anal region, and crissum 

 nearly immaculate whitish; bill bright yellow; feet pale brownish 

 gray (in dried skin) . 



Young femnle (nestling). — Pileum dull grayish brown (between 

 hair brown and sepia) the feathers narrowly tipped with blackish; 

 hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain bro\\Ti 

 (between bister and sepia); wing-coverts (except distal greater 

 coverts) and proximal secondaries (tertials) mth a very large sub- 

 terminal roundish spot of pale buff margined with black, the basal 

 portion of the feathers vermiculated or freckled with grayish brown 

 and pale grayish buffy, the distal greater coverts and secondaries 

 light buffy grayish brown finely vermiculated with dusky, the former 

 rather narrowly tipped with pale buffy; alula, primary coverts, and 

 primaries dull blackish slate edged with paler, the edgings broader 



a Described from no. 109523, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Huachuca Mte., Arizona, 

 Aug. 24, 1885: Lieut. H. C. Benson, U. S. A. 



