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dered anteriorly and laterally by a broad n -shaped stripe of brownish 

 white ; forehead, lores, and broad stripe passing thence backward over eyes 

 and auriculars to sides of hindneck, deep black; chin, throat, and malar 

 region uniform deep black, bordered above by a broad stripe of brownish 

 white, beginning at rictus and extending beneath eye across auriculars. 

 Hindneck and sides of neck dark chestnut, the feathers with mesial guttata 

 streaks or spots of rusty white, these larger and purer white on sides of 

 neck ; upper back dark chestnut, the feathers irregularly barred or trans- 

 versely mottled on edges with black and brownish gray ; rest of back, with 

 scapulars, wing coverts, and tertials coarsely mottled and irregularly barred 

 with blackish on an olive and brownish gray ground, with lighter mark- 

 ings along edges of many feathers, especially tertials and greater wing 

 coverts ; lower back and rump olive-brown, especially on lower back ; upper 

 tail coverts and middle rectrices similar but more grayish brown, marked 

 with broad mesial streaks of black and irregularly barred with lighter; 

 rectrices dull slate-gray, tinged with olive, and indistinctly barred or 

 transversely mottled on outer webs with paler. Primaries plain, dull, 

 brownish slate. Chest, breast, and middle line of belly white, the feathers 

 broadly and abruptly bordered with black, this narrowest on upper part 

 of chest, broadest on belly ; sides and flanks chestnut, each feather whitish 

 centrally and bordered with black, this more or less broken or mottled on 

 many of the feathers ; under tail coverts rusty, tipped with dull light buffy, 

 and marked with a large central sagittate or triangular spot of black. Bill 

 entirely deep black; feet dark brown." (R. R.) 



Adult female. — Similar to that of C. n. caboti, but generally darker, less 

 grayish, more brownish above, the dark blotches larger and more numerous, 

 the ground color of the upper parts generally dark Dresden brown, the 

 feathers without grayish edgings; the inner edges of the scapulars pale 

 buffy (instead of white as in caboti) ; lores, superciliaries, chin, and throat 

 darker than in caboti — dark clay color with an ochraceous wash; basal 

 portions of feathers of breast and upper abdomen less rufescent, more 

 brownish; brown centers of flank feathers deeper chestnut with broader 

 fuscous borders. "Broad superciliary stripe (including sides of forehead), 

 chin, throat, and malar region plain, dull ochraceous or clay color ; pileum 

 brownish black, streaked with dull grayish buffy; auriculars plain silky 

 brown ; suborbital region dull ochraceous, streaked with blackish ; hinder 

 part and sides of neck pale dull grayish buffy, thickly marked with tri- 

 angular spots of black, these larger and more blended on hindneck, smaller 

 and more individualized on sides of neck. Upperparts in general coarsely 

 mottled, spotted, and barred with black and pale brownish buffy on a light 

 bister-brownish ground, the black spots (of irregular form) more con- 

 spicuous on hinder scapulars, tertials, lower back, and rump; primaries 

 plain brownish slate, their outer webs more ashy ; tail as in male but more 

 coarsely mottled. Lower parts dull whitish, the chest and breast thickly 



