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cartridge buffy to buffy white, with five to seven dusky fuscescent 

 triangular bars, each of which has its base against the shaft and its apex 

 at the outer edge of the vane, causing the whitish areas to appear Hke 

 reversed triangles, these dusky marks becoming small and faint or disap- 

 pearing entirely on the distal third of the feathers ; secondaries fuscous 

 externally broadly edged with sayal brown coarsely vermiculated with 

 fuscous, and tipped with drab ; the innermost secondaries have their inner 

 webs also margined with vermiculated sayal brown with a wash of drab ; 

 the scapulars like the greater secondary coverts but with the light mesial 

 streaks much wider and the adjacent part of the inner web extensively 

 blackish; rectrices cinnamon to clay color tipped broadly with smoke 

 gray with fine black vermiculations subterminally broadly banded with 

 fuscous-black to bister, this band sometimes breaking down to a series 

 of vermiculations in the median pair of rectrices (possibly in younger 

 adult birds) ; the subterminal dark band edged basally with another smoke- 

 gray band similar to the terminal one, and the remainder of the feathers 

 crossed by seven to nine narrow, wavy, fuscous-black bands, each of 

 which is followed distally by a band of cinnamon-bufT, which in turn is 

 edged distally by a broken series of blackish vermiculations, which ex- 

 tend, in reduced size, into the brown interspaces ; loreal stripe pale pinkish 

 bufT narrowly edged with blackish spots ; lower eyelid a line of pinkish- 

 bufT and black spots ; feather of cheeks and auriculars elongated, sayal 

 brown, with blackish edges and pale ashy-brown shaft streaks ; chin whitish 

 washed with bufify or pale ochraceous-bufT and the feathers sometimes 

 tipped narrowly with black ; throat light ochraceous-buflF, becoming whitish 

 laterally on the upper throat, the feathers forming the lateral and posterior 

 portions of the gular area tipped with fuscous-black, producing a some- 

 what scalloped pattern ; upper breast cinnamon-brown to light auburn, 

 each feather broadly tipped with smoke gray, so that in fresh plumage 

 the brown is largely obscured ; the brown areas of the feathers basally 

 largely light pinkish cinnamon, with the darker cinnamon-brown forming 

 incomplete bands, especially subterminally; lower breast and upper and 

 lateral parts of the abdomen grayish white to pale smoke gray sub- 

 terminally crossed by broad bands of wood brown to buffy brown 

 narrowly edged on both sides with darker, and the feathers washed 

 with bufify basally ; the brownish subterminal bands usually largely 

 hidden by the grayish-white tips of the feathers, especially on the ab- 

 domen, these bands darker and more exposed on the lateral feathers 

 middle of abdomen with no brown, pure grayish white ; feathers of 

 the sides sayal brown to Saccardo's umber slightly vermiculated with 

 blackish and with white shaft streaks that expand distally into broad 

 terminal spots, flanks similar but the brown areas ashier and more 

 vermiculated, the vermiculations forming narrow bands, the shaft streaks 

 washed with grayish and not expanding into terminal spots; thighs 



