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shaft Stripes clove brown to chaetura drab ; under wing coverts dusky 

 hair brown ; iris dark brown ; bill black ; tarsi and toes dull greenish gray, 

 claws black. 



Adult female. — Very different from the male: forehead, lores, and 

 anterior part of crown posterior to the hind end of the eyes pale hair 

 brown finely streaked with buffy white ; crest smaller than in male and 

 dark clove brown to fuscous; posterior part of crown, occiput, and 

 auriculars between wood brown and sayal brown, the auriculars with 

 fine dusky streaks ; nape and sides of neck and anterior interscapulars as 

 in the male but washed with brownish gray and the shaft streaks less 

 rufescent, more dusky; rest of upperparts of the body, the wings, and 

 tail as in the male but averaging slightly more brownish ; chin and throat 

 white faintly washed with buffy and the feathers with shaft streaks of 

 pale bufify brown; cheeks similar but with the streaks much darker — 

 dingy sepia; breast like the back but slightly paler; abdomen light buffy 

 whitish without the large central black patch found in the male, and the 

 feathers with narrow, incomplete shaft streaks of dark brown, these 

 streaks disappearing on the lower abdomen ; elongated feathers of the 

 sides and upper flanks as in the male but averaging paler chestnut ; lower 

 flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts as in the male. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Lores, forehead, crown, and occiput Saccardo's 

 umber, bordered on each side by very broad supraorbital bands of very 

 pale cinnamon-buff; entire upperparts of body pale tawny-olive finely 

 speckled with dusky ; interscapulars, scapulars, innermost secondaries 

 and inner upper wing coverts with broad white shaft streaks, which spread 

 out at the tips of the feathers, the feathers heavily blotched with dark 

 mummy brown subterminally ; innermost secondaries with the white shaft 

 stripes greatly reduced, the feathers crossed by heavy transverse blotches 

 of dusky mummy brown, and their inner webs extensively suffused with 

 the same ; remaining secondaries and the primaries dull clove brown, 

 their outer webs mottled with dull pale tawny-olive ; rectrices dusky bister 

 transversely mottled and tipped with pale dull olive-buff; chin and throat 

 whitish somewhat tinged with pale buffy ; breast, sides, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts dingy buffy white transversely mottled and barred 

 with hair brown to dusky hair brown; middle of abdomen uniformly 

 dingy buffy white. 



Natal doztm. — Forehead, lores, and anterior half of crown and the 

 sides of the head vary from clay color to pinkish buff" ; a broad band 

 of russet, rimmed with black from the point of origin of the crest to 

 hindneck ; auriculars dark brownish ; remainder of upperparts light pinkish 

 buff, broadly striped and blotched with warm sepia ; underparts pale 

 grayish buff. 



