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to 8 to 10 (on the primaries) bands of dull sepia which merge to form 

 a continuous lengthwise sepia area next to the shaft; the outer web 

 of the outermost primary with very small ivory buff areas suggestive 

 of the pale interspaces on the inner web; the innermost secondaries 

 almost devoid of any whitish on either web ; second primary from the 

 outside the longest, then the third, first, and fourth; upper tail coverts 

 wood brown, the more anterior ones and the rump feathers edged with 

 cinnamon, the posterior coverts with no such markings; rectrices plain 

 pale drab to vinaceous-buff tipped with dirty buffy white, the inner 

 webs of all but the middle pair wdth eight or nine pale light ochraceous- 

 buff to very pale avellaneous, incomplete bars, the bars merging to 

 form a continuous pale edge to the inner web, these bars vaguely 

 suggested on the outer webs as well as on the two outermost rectrices; 

 lores and superciUaries like the forehead, but less yellowish; a malar 

 stripe of dark sepia feathers, each with a black shaft streak, extends 

 posteroventrally from the anterior angle of the eye to the sides of the 

 throat; behind this, cheeks and sides of neck ivory buff to cartridge 

 buff, the auriculars much mixed with sepia becoming wholly sepia 

 posteriorly (with black shaft streaks) ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, 

 sides, thighs, and under tail coverts whitish washed %vith cartridge 

 buff on the breast and pale pinkish buff on the middle of the abdomen; 

 the chin and throat immaculate; breast and upper abdomen with 

 numerous, small, ovate to elongated, tear-shaped spots of mummy 

 brown, the spots becoming larger, longer, and much broader on the 

 sides and flanks, practically coalescing into a large, somewhat inter- 

 rupted patch on the flanks; thighs with a few small elongated spots on 

 the outer side; lower abdomen and under tail coverts immaculate or 

 with only a few, and rather faint, spots; axillars plain mummy hrovm 

 with a few obsolete rusty spots toward the tip; rest of under mng 

 coverts white, the feathers with mummy brown shaft streaks, some of 

 which are broadened to include afl the edges of the feathers; iris dull 

 bro\\Ti; cere, orbits, tarsi, and toes medium cadmium to naples yeUow; 

 biU pale greenish at base passing to bluish and dark slate at tip; claws 

 blackish slate. 



Immature (sexes alike). — Like the adult, but with the scapulars, 

 interscapulars, back, rump, and upper tail coverts ashy avellaneous to 

 dull grayish cinnamon barred with fuscous, the scapulars each with 

 four or five dark bars, the shorter interscapulars with two or three 

 such bars apiece; the median pair as well as the rest of the rectrices 

 indistinctly barred on both webs hair brown; the nuchal collar washed 

 with pale cinnamon-buff; the thighs with more and heavier dark 

 brown spots; the superciliary lines with brownish streaks. 



Juvenal (sexes alike) .—Simflar to the adult, but the general color 

 of the feathers of the upperparts much darker, dark mummy brown 



