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BULLETIN 50, UlsriTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



on supra-auricular region; liindneck more greenisli than pileum, 

 with a soft gloss of bronze-green in certain lights; rest of upper parts 

 deep reddish brown, deeper (hessian brown) on back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts, lighter (between prussian red and 

 cameo brown) on middle and greater wing-coverts, the primaries 

 and distal secondaries grayish dusky; four middle rectrices dark red- 

 dish brown, the remainder grayish dusky or dusky gray (darker sub- 

 terminally) tipped with dull light gray; malar and suborbital regions 

 white, tinged with buff anteriorly, passing into gray on auricular 

 region ; beneath this white and gray area a conspicuous line of black, 

 extending from side of middle throat to beneath lower end of auric- 

 ular region; chin and upper throat dull white; foreneck, sides of 

 neck, and chest deep gull gray slightly darker, and tinged with semi- 

 metallic oUve-green laterally, fading into paler gray on breast; 

 median portion of lower breast, abdomen, and anal region very pale 

 buff, the under tail-coverts similar but with basal portion of the 

 feathers brownish gray or grayish brown; sides olive-brown, the 

 flanks light buffy grayish brown; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 grayish brown; bill dusky, the basal portion of tomia and mandible 

 carmine; "- iris dark brown; "' bare orbital space carmine; "' legs and 

 feet carmine, soles of toes whitish," 



Young. — Conspicuously different in coloration from adults. Fore- 

 head dull whitish, more or less tinged with rusty brown or cinna- 

 mon; crown, occiput, and hindneck dusky gray, faintly glossed with 

 bluish green or bronze-green; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, proximal secondaries, and some of wing-coverts dull chest- 

 nut or bay, indistinctly though rather broadly barred with dusky, 

 the feathers sometimes narrowly tipped with cinnamon or pale 

 rusty; foreneck and chest distinctly barred with dusky brownish gray 

 and pale cinnamon or dull cinnamon-buff, the remaining under parts 

 also more or less vermiculated, or freckled, with cinnamon-buff pre- 

 dominating on center of abdomen. 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 240-285 (251); wing, 13G-145 (140.5); 

 tail, 72-82.5 (78.6); exposed culmen, 12-15.5 (13.3); tarsus, 38-43 

 (40.6); middle toe, 28-32 (30.2).^ 



« Jos6 C. Zeled6n, manuscript. 



i Twelve specimens. 



