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duplicate, the upper and longer plume slightly recurved distally and en- 

 closing the lower and shorter one. Upperparts plain olive, the inner 

 webs of tertials edged with buff ; malar and suborbital regions, throat, 

 and foreneck chestnut, margined posteriorly by a white stripe ; rest of 



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Figure 15. — Orcortyx picta. 



head and neck, and breast, plain slate-gray, the crest black; sides and 

 flanks broadly banded with chestnut, black, and white. Sexes alike in 

 color. 



Range. — Mountains near Pacific coast of North America, from south- 

 ern Washington to northern Baja California. (Monotypic.) 



