BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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grayer and with lower portion sometimes faintly glossed with 

 bronzy or purplish; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts plain olive- 

 brown, the remaining upper parts similar but usually somewhat less 

 brownish; lateral rectrices darker (nearly black distally), the outer- 

 most (one to three pairs) tipped with white; malar, suborbital, and 

 auricular regions drab-gray to pale mouse gray, passing into pale 

 purphsh gray on neck and chest, this mto olive-brownish on flanks 

 and outer portion of sides; lower abdomen creamy or pinkish white 

 (the middle under parts usually more or less tinged with pale vina- 

 ceous) ; anal region and under tail-coverts white, the latter with outer 

 webs gray or olive-brownish; axillars and imder wing-coverts cinna- 

 mon-rufous, the proximal portion of inner webs of remiges tinged with 

 the same; bill black; bare loral space and posterior angle of bare 

 orbital space, didl crimson, the rest of orbital space gray; iris pale 

 grayish yellow to sulphur yellow; legs and feet lake red; length 

 (skms), 238-256 (247); wing, 128-137.5 (132.8); tail, 83-90 (87.1); 

 exposed culmen, 14-16 (14.6); tarsus, 29.5-33.5 (31.3); middle toe, 

 23-25 (24). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, and usually(?) quite 

 mdistinguishable, but sometimes with coloration, slightly duller; 

 length (skins), 233-255 (244); wmg, 129-136 (132.4); tail, 79.5-91 

 (85.7); exposed culmen, 14-16.5 (14.9); tarsus, 29-32.5 (30.6); 

 middle toe, 23-24.5 (23.9).'' 



Young. — Very different in coloration from adults. General color 

 of upper parts essentially as in adults but wing-coverts, secondaries, 

 and proximal primaries more or less distinctly margined terminally 

 with russet or cinnamon; feathers of occiput and nape with shaft- 

 streaks (more or less distmct) of cinnamon or light rusty; foreneck 

 and chest duU brown, the feathers margined terminally with pale 

 cinnamon or brownish buffy; otherwise much as in adults. 



Panama (Montana del Vermejo and Sana, Veragua; Volcan de 

 Chh'iqui and Bugaba, Chiriqui; Laguna del Pita; Cana; Gatun, 



