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region showing a more or less distinct indication of a l)uffy or dull 

 whitish stripe. 



Adult female in summer. — Above dusW, varied with paler streaks 

 and edgings; pileuni with a more or less distinct median stripe' of 

 pale bufly grayish, the dusky broad lateral stripes usuall}^ more or 

 less streaked with brown or rusty; hindneck and sides of neck broadly 

 streaked with pale buff y or grayish; scapulars and interscapulars more 

 or less edged on inner webs with pale buffy gra3'ish, on outer webs 

 with rusty; secondaries, innermost primaries, rectrices, and primary 

 coverts narrowly edged with pale grayish or buffy grayish, the upper 

 tail-coverts margined with the same; greater coverts and outermost 

 primaries edged with dull whitish; lesser coverts broadly margined 

 with brownish gray or red, or both (often extensively red); middle 

 coverts black, broadly margined terminally with white or pale buti'y; 

 a broad superciliary stripe of white, finely streaked with dusky, 

 usually becoming buff or salmon color anteriorly (over eyes and 

 lores); a broad postocular stripe of dusky; malar region and under 

 parts dull white (the chin, throat, and malar region often ])ufi' or 

 salmon pink), the under parts of the body broadly streaked or striped 

 with dusky (sometimes almost black), these stripes broadest on flanks; 

 under tail-coverts dusky, margined with white or pale buffy; chin and 

 throat sometimes imUiaculate, l)ut the latter usually marked with 

 small wedge-shaped or triangular streaks of dusky, the sides of the 

 throat margined hj a more or less distinct dusky sulimalar stripe; 

 bill dusky (the mandil)le usually paler, more or less horn colored); 

 legs and feet dark horn color or dusky. 



Adult female in vniiter. — Similar to the summer female, but the 

 lighter markings of upper parts more conspicuous, more pronouncedly 

 buff}' and rusty, and the sides of head and under parts more or less 

 tinged with buffy (superciliary stripe sometimes clear buff). 



Young (.svv/v.v alike). — Much like adult female, but superciliary and 

 malar stripes, chin, and throat yellowish (ocher j^ellow or buff-j^ellow), 

 under parts of body with ground color pale buffy or yellowish, with 

 the dusky streaks narrower; edgings to remiges distinctly buffy 

 brown or fulvous. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 205.7-236.2 (216.7); wing, 116.3-125.7 

 (120.9); tail, 88.0-96 (91.7); culmen, from base, 22.4-25.4 (23.6); depth 

 of l)ill at base, 12.2-13.5 (12.7); tarsus, 29.2-32.8 (30.2); middle toe, 

 20.6-22.6 (21.6).' 



Adult fe7nale.—Ijength (skins), 172.7-189.2 (177.5); wing, 95.3-101.6 

 (98.3); tail, 70.1-77.5 (74.2); culmen, from base, 17.3-20.3 (19.3); depth 

 of bill at base, 10.7-11.7 (10.9); tarsus, 25.4-26.4 (25.9); middle toe, 

 17.3-19.1 (18.3).^ 



^ Except in much-worn midsummer specimens. 

 ^Fourteen specimens. 

 * Ten specimens. 



