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rump, upper tail coverts and tail, fine cinnamon rufous; scapulars and back 

 barred with black, the bars broadest and most conspicuous posteriorly. Tail 

 tipped with white, and with a broad, sharply-defined subterminal zone of black, 

 about one inch in width; lateral feathers with outer web, and terminal half of 

 inner, ashy white, the latter with one or two distinct transverse spots anterior 

 to the subterminal one; wing coverts with more or less conspicuous cordate spots 

 of black, rather sparsely distributed; basal two-thirds of secondaries and whole 

 of primaries deep black; the latter whitish around the terminal margin, and 

 with nine transverse bands of white on inner web of longest (second), the white 

 rather exceeding the black, the points of which do not reach the edge of the 

 feather; lining of the wing white, with conspicuous cordate spots of black; 

 front and superciliary region more hoary than the forehead, almost approaching 

 white; whole lateral region of the head, with chin, throat and lower parts, 

 white; the neck, breast and sides, however, with a deep tinge of ochraceous, 

 the tint hardly approaching the depth of color seen on the nape; on the head 

 there are (considering both sides) seven black spots; the first originating in 

 front of the bare ante-orbital space (leaving the lores white), and extending in 

 a stripe downward aci'oss the maxillae, forming a conspicuous 'mustache;' the 

 second crosses the tips of the ear coverts, in form of an oblong transverse spot; 

 the third is smaller, situated as far behind the last as this, and is posterior to 

 the 'mustache,' crossing the sides of the neck; the last is an odd nuchal spot 

 separating the ash of the occiput from the rufous of the nape; breast and sides 

 with circular or cordate spots of pure black, these varying in size, but generally 

 larger on the sides; other lower parts immaculate. Adult female: Blue above 

 confined to the head, which shows the rufous patch as in the male; entire up- 

 per parts rufous, lighter and less purplish than the male, everywhere barred 

 with black; tail with twelve sharply-defined narrow bars of black; the sub- 

 terminal broadest, and about three-eighths of an inch in width; longest pri- 

 mary with eleven transverse spaces of pale rufous nearly twice as wide as the 

 dusky ones, which scarcely touch the edge; beneath yellowish white, paler than 

 in the male, breast and sides with rasty longitudinal spots; head as in the male. 

 Young male: Exactly like the adult male, but with the rufous darker, approach- 

 ing to chestnut; spots beneath inclining to a tear-shaped form, and, though 

 more numerous, are not so well defined as in the adult; also rufescent tinge be- 

 neath more general; blue of the wings with scarcely any spots; white terminal 

 band of tail tinged with rufous; sometimes the two or three outer feathers are 

 clouded with ash, and possess indication of bars, formed of irregular black spots. 

 Young female: Generally like the adult, but with rufous above darker, approach- 

 ing ferruginous; the bars everywhere broader, and purer black; rufous vertical 

 patch streaked centrally with black; spots beneath larger, darker, approaching 

 reddish umber." 



Length. 



Male 10.35 



Female... 11.40 



Iris brown; cere, edges of eyelids and lips orange; bill light 

 blue; legs and feet yellow; claws black. 



