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coverts, the outer webs mottled with mouse gray, the inner webs 

 crossed by four to seven incomplete bands of the same, these pri- 

 maries terminally fuscous-black; third from the outside the longest; 

 the fourth slightly shorter; the second shorter than the fifth; the outer- 

 most one 80 mm. or more shorter than the longest; upper tail coverts 

 white either unmarked or crossed by 4 to 7 incomplete grayish drab 

 bars; basal two-thirds of tail white crossed by 11 to 14 narrow trans- 

 verse bands of pale chaetura drab, the more distal bands usually 

 wider and darker than the more proximal ones, broad terminal area 

 of tail (50 mm. or more in width) very dark fuscous-black to dark 

 fuscous; the outer web of the outermost pair almost entirely fuscous- 

 black; lores, orbital area, and cheeks bare; auriculars, chin, throat, 

 and sides of neck whitish, washed with ivory yellow; breast and a 

 lateral-dorsal extension connecting with the interscapulars cartridge 

 buff to pinlcish buff, the feathers crossed by four to sLx broad trans- 

 verse spots of deep fuscous-black, the spots larger on the midventral 

 part than on the lateral parts of the breast; posteromedian part of 

 abdomen and under tail coverts cartridge buff to dirty pinlvish buff; 

 cere and bare facial skin dull carmine-red; iris raw sienna; bill livid 

 whitish; bluish at base; tarsi and toes chrome yellow to very pale 

 yellow; claws black. 



Immature (sexes alike). — Forehead, crown, occiput, nape, scapulars, 

 upper wing coverts, secondaries, inner primaries and broad tips of outer 

 primaries, lower back, rump, abdomen (except the posteromedian 

 portion), sides, flanks, and thighs sepia to sayal brown, the feathers of 

 the top of the head with indistinct blackish median streaks, the median 

 upper wing coverts and the feathers of the rump with narrow whitish 

 tips and the former indistinctly crossed by transverse spots of fuscous, 

 the lesser upper wing coverts generally darker, more sepia, less sayal 

 brown, than the other upper wing coverts; the feathers of the abdomen 

 and flanks tipped (in fresh plumage) with cartridge buff, the feathers 

 of the anterior part of the abdomen often largely cartridge buff later- 

 ally, but not terminally edged with sayal brown and with a narrow 

 dark sepia to fuscous stripe on each side of the whitish or buffy whitish 

 shaft; posteromedian part of abdomen and under tail coverts as in 

 adults; under wing coverts dark sepia to fuscous; upper taU coverts 

 and rectrices as in adult but the broad terminal tail band sayal brown 

 to sepia instead of dark fuscous; interscapulars sayal brown (the more 

 anterior ones much washed with cartridge buff) tipped with buffy 

 white and with very variable cartridge buff to whitish median areas (in 

 some cases areas broad with fuscous-black shafts; in others completely 

 crossed by several broad wedge-shaped dark fuscous spots) ; outer 

 primaries as in adults, but the dark fuscous replaced by sepia; sides of 

 face, chin, throat, and sides of neck as in adults but less whitish, more 



