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throat white ; feathers of breast and middle upper abdomen white edged and 

 tipped with black, giving a scalloped appearance to these areas, the black 

 margins increasing in width posteriorly very much ; sides of breast and 

 abdomen to the flanks, white broadly edged and tipped with Brussels 

 brown; thighs, vent, and under tail coverts dull pale grayish ochraceous- 

 tawny, the under tail coverts with subterminal blackish shaft stripes; 

 middle of lower abdomen like the thighs but slightly more grayish, less 

 rufescent; under wing coverts dull brownish, edged with pale grayish.^^ 

 Adult female. — Narrow forehead, broad superciliary stripes, chin, and 

 throat between warm buff and ochraceous-buff ; feathers of crown and 

 occiput fuscous to fuscous-black narrowly edged with neutral gray ; nape 

 similar but the lateral margins pale huffy white and much broader ; inter- 

 scapulars cinnamon-brown, grayish basally, narrowly edged and tipped 

 with dusky grayish, and transversely spotted with buffy white, each of 

 these pale marks bordered on both sides by blackish, and sparsely and ir- 

 regularly barred with blackish, the grayish edges widening on the posterior 

 interscapulars and the feathers of the upper back which are subterminally 

 blotched with fuscous mixed with sepia ; scapulars as in the male but more 

 brownish, less grayish generally ; upper wing coverts as in the male but 

 more brownish generally and barred, on their outer webs, with broader, 

 more conspicuous pale buffy to pale pinkish buffy, black-bordered bars, all 

 the markings heavier and coarser than in the male ; secondaries externally 

 edged with pale ochraceous-buff and incompletely banded with the same 

 on their outer webs; primaries as in the male but their outer webs very 

 faintly flecked with pale ochraceous-buffy ; back, lower back, rump, and 

 tail coverts as in the male but browner, less grayish, and with the median 

 dark blotches smaller and less noticeable ; rectrices as in the male but all, 

 the lateral as well as the median ones, externally flecked transversely with 

 grayish white ; auriculars dark dull auburn ; feathers of sides of neck and 

 of the entire breast white with blackish-brown shaft stripes and cross bars 

 dividing the feathers into at least two rows of white spots terminally, the 

 feathers, especially those of the sides of the neck, pale dull hazel to ochra- 

 ceous-tawny basally ; feathers of abdomen white crossed by widely spaced 

 fuscous bars, the most distal of which is medially extended as a shaft 

 stripe, these bars petering out on the middle of the abdomen; on the 

 feathers of the sides and flanks the shaft stripes are very much longer and 

 broader and contain within them a median core of pale cinnamon-brown 

 to ochraceous-tawny ; thighs and vent white obscurely barred with dusky 

 sepia ; under tail coverts pale cinnamon-brown with subterminal broad, 



" One specimen from the type locality (Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. No. 103848) is 

 very brown on the wings, back, rump, and upper tail coverts, completely lacking the 

 gray. It also has the brown of the interscapulars, upper back, sides, and flanks 

 darker chestnut. 



