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wing coverts very pale bufify brown edged and tipped with whitish ; iris, 

 bill, and feet as in male, 



Juvenal male.— Forehead, crown, occiput, and nape dull fuscous, the 

 feathers narrowly tipped with pale buffy brown ; lores and a narrow 

 superciliary stripe pale pinkish buff to light buff; interscapulars and 

 scapulars dark fuscous to chaetura black completely edged with ashy 

 cinnamon-buff and with narrow buffy shafts ; upper wing coverts similar 

 but with lateral extensions of buff from the shafts forming incomplete bars 

 of the same; secondaries dark fuscous to clove brown barred with pale 

 ashy buff, the pale bars flecked with dusky ; primaries dusky clove brown 

 with fairly broad bars of whitish or very pale buff on the outer webs 

 and also on the basal part of the inner webs; back, lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts dull fuscous to dusky sepia, the feathers completely 

 edged with pale ashy cinnamon-buff and with paler buffy shafts and 

 median wedge-shaped markings of the same, these marks largely absent 

 on the upper tail coverts ^ ; rectrices dusky avellaneous crossed by many 

 broad bars of clove brown each of which is proximally bordered with 

 tawny Sayal brown, the feathers externally edged with pale ashy cinnamon- 

 buff ; sides of face largely bare ; chin and throat pale buffy to almost 

 white; auriculars, sides of neck and malar area and lower throat pale 

 warm buff streaked with dull grayish sepia ; breast dark pinkish buff 

 spotted with dull sepia; feathers of sides and flanks clove brown to dull 

 sepia completely edged with pinkish buff and with broad shaft stripes 

 of the same; abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts pale pinkish buff 

 with a slight grayish tinge, some of the feathers, especially of the thighs 

 and under tail coverts faintly blotched or transversely mottled with sepia 

 to wood brown ; bill dark horn color ; iris brown ; tarsi and toes dark 

 brown. 



Juvenal jemale. — Like the corresponding stage of the male but with 

 no bare area on the sides of the head ; the sides of the neck somewhat 

 more vinaceous, the auriculars less grayish, slightly more brownish ; inter- 

 scapulars more vinaceous in tone. 



Natal down. — Forehead and sides of crown pale cinnamon-buff to 

 ochraceous-buff ; center of crown and occiput dark fuscous to fuscous- 

 black, becoming washed with rufescent on the posterior occiput and nape 

 which is almost chestnut-brown ; upperparts of body pale tawny-buff 

 tinged with tawny-russet and with three broad fuscous-black stripes ; 

 wings with blotches of fuscous-black and rufescent; sides of head pale 

 ochraceous-buff ; a blackish spot on the auriculars ; a light sepia malar 

 streak ; underparts pale buffy yellow tinged with tawny or pale ochraceous, 



'According to Leffingwell (Occ. Pap. Conner Mus., i, 1928, 21) the upper tail 

 coverts in juvenal males are barred "with olive buff, often running to chestnut 

 on the margins." I have seen but one young male and do not find this to hold for it. 



