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uniform black, with an indistinct series of small white streaks immediatel}^ 

 above the ear-coverts, suggestive of a postocular stripe. Upper back and 

 entire underparts light tawny-cinnamon, the latter absolutely uniform, 

 except on hinder flanks, and longer under tail-coverts, which are varied 

 with black and whitish, in the form of edgings and terminal spots of the 

 latter, the former as sub-edgings and V-shaped markings ; feathers of the 

 upper back varied by a blackish speckling along the edges. Lower back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials, rump, and upper tail-coverts confusedly 

 mottled and vermiculated with brownish gray and blackish, the scapulars 

 and tertials suffused or stained with rusty brown; wing-coverts rather 

 broadly but irregularly barred with whitish, the inner webs of the latter 

 deeply indented with the same, forming an irregular or interrupted border ; 

 feathers of lower rump and upper tail-coverts with irregular 'herring-bone' 

 markings of blackish. Tail bluish gray, minutely mottled with whitish and 

 dusky. Primaries brownish gray, their outer webs coarsely mottled with 

 paler. Bill uniform black; feet (in dried skin) dark horn-color." (R. R.) 



Adult female. — Very similar to that of Colinus virginianus texanus but 

 with the pale edges of the dorsal feathers averaging more whitish, less 

 grayish, more in contrast to the rest of the coloration of the feathers 

 involved ; top of head with the dusky median stripes to the feathers darker, 

 the edges paler and huffier. "Upper parts essentially as in the adult male, 

 lores and sides of forehead pale buff, this extending back to the nape in a 

 continuous, broad superciliary stripe ; chin, malar region, and entire throat 

 uniform pale buff, bordered behind by a narrow transverse chain or series 

 of black and rusty triangular spots. Chest pale cinnamon, slightly varied 

 with black and whitish ; rest of lower parts white, the sides and flanks 

 broadly striped with pale cinnamon, enclosed between U- or V-shaped 

 black markings, the breast and belly having sparse V-shaped bars of black ; 

 under tail-coverts pale cinnamon, broadly tipped with huffy whitish and 

 each ornamented by a subterminal V-shaped mark of black." (R. R.) 



Juvenal male. — -Forehead, crown, and occiput mottled fuscous-black and 

 light ochraceous-buff, the feathers having shafts, edges, and narrow tips 

 of the latter color ; interscapulars and upper wing coverts as in the adult 

 female, but with white shaft streaks terminally widening into small tri- 

 angular spots, and the feathers blotched with clove brown to dark chestnut- 

 brown ; remiges as in the adult male ; lower back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts as in the adult female ; rectrices dusky sepia crossed by numerous 

 narrow wavy white bars each of which is proximally bordered with mummy 

 brown, the brown widening medially to form a large shaft spot ; the median 

 pair of rectrices slightly more brownish, less grayish than the outer ones ; 

 sides of head, chin, and throat dusky fuscous, a whitish patch on the lower 

 cheek on either side ; many of the gular and mental feathers with narrow 

 grayish white edges ; breast, sides, and flanks, pinkish buff to pale pinkish 

 buff mottled with dull dusky sepia, the feathers with narrow white shafts ; 



