250 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



tipped and edged with the same, the edgings more buffy, the tips 

 purer white; secondaries broadly edged with Hght buffy brown pass- 

 ing into buffy white on terminal margins; primaries, primary coverts, 

 and alula very narrowly edged with grayish white and with broader 

 terminal margins of purer white; tail nearly black, becoming brownish 

 slaty basally, the rectrices indistinctly but rather broadly edged with 

 brownish gray; outermost rectrix edged with white, and with a large 

 white space (about 21.6 long) terminating the inner web; the third 

 w^ith the white space about 20.3 long, the fourth w ith it about 15.2, and 

 so on, decreasing in size and distinctness of definition to the fifth, 

 where it forms a narrow mark along the edge of the inner web near tip ; 

 a rather indistinct superciliary stripe of dull grayish white; lores, 

 suborbital region, and ear-coverts blackish, the last streaked with 

 light brownish gray; under parts, including malar region, buffy 

 white; along each side of throat a narrow streak of dusky; chest 

 faintly shaded with grayish, forming an indistinct broad band, within 

 which many of the feathers have a small dark brownish gray cordate 

 central spot; sides of breast similarly colored, forming two lateral 

 patches nearly meeting on the median line, but the dark spots larger 

 and more distinct; sides and flanks with broad longitudinal streaks of 

 dusky, most intense on flanks; bill brownish black, becoming pale 

 brownish on basal third of mandible; legs and feet black; ''iris dull 

 yellow.''" 



Young. — Forehead and crown dark brownish gray, uniform ante- 

 riorly but posteriorly streaked with pale brownish gray, the feathers of 

 the hinder crown and occiput being this color, with broad, dusky 

 grayish mesial streaks; nape and hindneck very pale brownish gray, 

 indistinctly mottled with darker tips to the feathers; back and 

 scapulars buffy brown with large central longitudinal spots of dusky; 

 lower back and rump buffy cinnamon, broadly but indistinctly 

 streaked with dusky toward upper tail-coverts, the latter nearly 

 uniform grayish tinged with cinnamon on edges; wings dusky (nearly 

 black on remiges) ; lesser coverts broadly margined with buffy brown- 

 ish gray; middle coverts broadly tipped with pale buff; greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with pale buff and broadly edged with deep 

 buff; secondaries broadly margined with cinnamon-buff, paler at tips; 

 primaries, primary coverts, and alulse edged with dull whitish. Tail 

 as in adult; under parts dull white, the chest marked with distinct 

 blackish spots (larger and more round centrally, smaller and more 

 angular or sagittate laterally) ; sides and flanks broadly streaked with 

 dusky grayish; an indistinct superciliary stripe of grayish white; 

 lores and suborbital region dusky mixed with grayish; ear-coverts 

 dusky grayish, paler centrally, the feathers with dull whitish shaft- 

 streaks. 



a Charles F. Adams, manuscript, on label. 



