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hazel to tawny basally with a broad transverse blotch of dull sepia before 

 the vinaceous-fawn area (this blotch and the tawny area hidden by the 

 overlapping of the feathers) ; interscapulars bright hazel to tawny-russet 

 completely edged with pale vinaceous-fawn, the russet central area termi- 

 nating in a broad fuscous to fuscous-black, distally pointed V ; scapulars 

 and larger inner greater and median upper wing coverts Sayal brown 

 to tawny-olive, edged and tipped with pale buffy; the tawny-olive color 

 giving place to a heavy fuscous-black mass either as an attenuated median 

 pattern extending distally along the shaft or as abruptly transverse area ; 

 in the latter case the dark part is more extensive than the tawny portion ; 

 rest of upper wing coverts pinkish buff to pale ochraceous-buff, edged 

 with somewhat paler, and with their centers very heavily blotched with 

 dull, dusky sepia ; long scapulars and innermost secondaries tawny to 

 tawny-olive, their median areas with heavy elongated blotches and 

 marbling of blackish, edged and tipped with pale buffy ; rest of secondaries 

 dull olive-brown crossed by five to seven bands of pale buffy to pale 

 pinkish buff, these bands much narrower than the dark interspaces but 

 tending to coalesce on the outer margin of the outer secondaries ; primaries 

 rather light clove brown barred with wavy whitish or pale pinkish buff 

 bars, those on the outer webs whitish, those on the inner webs consider- 

 ably suffused with pinkish to pale tawny-buff ; upper back like the scapu- 

 lars ; feathers of the back, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts deep 

 fuscous-black to chaetura black, broadly edged and tipped with pale 

 pinkish buff to pale tawny-buff, the more posterior ones with the dark 

 centers medially divided into V's by buffy shaft stripes which fail to ex- 

 tend to the ends of the feathers ; the pale edges wider and tawnier on 

 the upper tail coverts than elsewhere ; rectrices light pinkish avellaneous, 

 the median pairs suffused with hazel medially, all transversely blotched 

 or banded with fuscous-black ; on the inner pairs a paler avellaneous 

 band between the adjacent dark ones, the rest of the feathers sparingly 

 flecked with dusky brown ; the lateral rectrices considerably suffused with 

 light vinaceous-fawn; chin and upper throat whitish; malar stripe and 

 auriculars buffy brown with a slightly golden hue ; lower throat like sides 

 of neck but slightly less vinaceous ; upper breast like lower throat but 

 somewhat more buffy ; feathers of breast pinkish buff with a faint olive- 

 buffy tinge, obscurely and faintly marked with transverse lines of duskier 

 and with concealed large dark brownish V-shaped bars and tawny bases; 

 feathers of the sides and flanks with these dark brownish markings ex- 

 posed and increased in size and number; upper and lateral parts of ab- 

 domen like the lower breast but without any concealed basal bars or tawny 

 color, and slightly warmer buft'y in tone ; middle of lower abdomen similar 

 but slightly paler ; thighs like the lateral parts of the abdomen but ob- 

 scurely barred with hair brown ; under tail coverts light russet broadly 

 tipped and subterminally transversely mottled with pinkish buff; under 



