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red; rictus orange-red; tarsus and toes salmon-orange red; lower part 

 of tarsus and large scutellae of toes dusky. 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male but head and secondaries 

 darker, pale neutral gray to neutral gray, the secondaries often nar- 

 rowly tipped with whitish; the primaries averaging slightly less of 

 the chestnut-brown color; the shafts of the rectrices black on upper 

 side only, light beneath (color in dried skin light buff). 



Immature (sexes alike). — Similar to adult female, sometimes even 

 darker (scapulars, interscapulars, all upper wing coverts, back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts dusky neutral gray to blackish slate) ; second- 

 aries not lighter than primaries; rectrices with angular whitish spots 

 on the inner webs, producing, on under surface, the effect of three 



Figure 11. — Ictinia mtsistpptensis. 



transverse whitish bands; inner web of outermost primary with a 

 large white area proximal to the emargination ; interior of mouth 

 whitish; iris less reddish that in adult. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Top and sides of head ivory white, each 

 feather with a dusky neutral gray center, the dark centers broad on 

 the crown and occiput, narrower on the cheeks and auriculars; lores 

 and supraorbital area black, a pale bufFy whitish superciliary band; 

 the nape, scapulars, interscapulars, back, rump, upper tail coverts, 

 and upper wing coverts blackish slate to black, the feathers narrowly 

 tipped with cinnamon-brown, often paling to buff or even whitish at 

 extreme distal edge; especially on greater upper wing coverts; scapu- 

 lars with a concealed white patch which sometimes shows through; 

 remiges dusky neutral gray to black, tipped with white; rectrices 

 dusky neutral gray obscurely banded with black (above) and tipped 

 with white; under surface of rectrices paler, deep neutral gray ob- 

 scurely banded with dark neutral gray, with white patches on the 



