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occiput and nape; scapulars, interscapulars, and upper back dull hair 

 brown to chactura drab, the feathers edged with avellaneous or 

 vinaceous-buff, the edgings giving an ashy appearance to the scapu- 

 lars, interscapulars, and upper back; the feathers of the lower back 

 and rump and the upper tail coverts fuscous to dark chaetura drab 

 very narrowly tipped with army brown; lesser upper wing coverts 

 orange-cinnamon, the feathers with concealed median areas of grayish 

 fuscous; median upper wing coverts fuscous washed with grayish and 

 edged with pale cinnamon-orange; greater upper wing coverts fuscous, 

 the outer (primary) coverts tipped broadly with orange-cinnamon; 



Figure 15. — Heterospizias meridionalis. 



the inner (secondary) coverts narrowly tipped and margined with dull 

 vinaceous-buff; primaries and outer secondaries very broadly tipped 

 with black (in the outer primaries the black area half the length of 

 the feather) and bright orange-cinnamon (paling to pale cinnamon- 

 puilv internally on the outer primaries) in the proximal portion, the 

 orange-cinnamon areas on the inner webs barred with wavy narrow, 

 but widely spaced, blackish bands; the inner secondaries with the 

 orange-cinnamon replaced by dull hair brown obscurely barred on 

 both webs; tail black, tipped with white and crossed by a broad white 

 bar, the bar somewhat nearer the tip than the base of the rectrices, 

 and irregularly mottled with whitish in the basal black area; sides of 

 the head light buff to pale ochraceous-buff, the feathers with hair 



