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throat, and breast pale neutral gray to light neutral gray with fine 

 shaft streaks of deep neutral gray; the lower breast narrowly barred 

 with ochi-aceous-tawny to briglit tawny; abdomen, flanks, thighs, and 

 and under tail coverts whitish abundantly and narrowly barred with 

 tawny to hazel, the bars brightest and most rufescent on the thighs; 

 where the white is often almost obliterated, bars fewest and most 

 widely spaced on the under tail coverts; under wing coverts white 

 barred with tawny; iris brown, brownish yellow, or pale brownish 

 yellow; cere yellowish green; bill leaden color, tipjDcd with black, 

 tarsus greenish, toes yellowish, claws black. 



Adult female. — Very similar to the adult male, but the forehead, 

 crown, and occiput usually with a brownish wash, the lower back 

 averaging darker, duller, less bright brownish, more dull fuscous; the 

 rectrices with four irregular narrow white bars. 



Juvenal wa/e.— Similar to the adult male above but top of head 

 fuscous instead of gray; the nape streaked with white; lesser upper 

 wing coverts at bend of wing less russet, more uniform with rest of 

 the upper wing coverts; lower back not more reddish brown than upper 

 back; pale areas of remiges much suffused with orange-cinnamon, and 

 more narrowly barred with fuscous-black; upper tail coverts fuscous 

 barred with white and washed with hazel; tail narrowly barred with 

 fuscous-black and white, the latter much suffused with cinnamon- 

 rufous or hazel (about 10-12 dark bars and an equal number of pale 

 interspaces) edged and tipped with dull sepia; below very different 

 from adult; chin, throat, sides of head, as in adult but breast, abdomen, 

 sides, flanks, and under tail coverts white narrowly streaked with 

 ochraceous-tawny; the thighs white spotted with ochraceous-tawny; 

 under wing coverts white spotted sparingly with tawny. 



Juvenal female. — Similar to ju venal male, but with the inter- 

 scapulars, back, rump, and upper tail coverts darker, fuscous-blackish; 

 the thighs suffused, not spotted, \Adth ochraceous ta^\^ly.•*^ 



Natal down. — Said to be white (Bond). 



Adult maZe.— Wing 210-235 (223.5); tail 137-151.5 (147.3); culmen 

 from cere 17-19.7 (18.6); tarsus 60.4-65.5 (64); middle toe without 

 claw 30.4-35.6 (32.6 mm.) (9 specimens). 



Adult Jen-tale.— IS mg 236-244 (241); tail 148.9-163 (159.3); culmen 

 from cere 19.7-21 (20.4); tarsus 63.2-68.5 (65.8); middle toe without 

 claw 32.7-35.8 (33.6 mm.) (5 specimens.) 



Range. — Resident in the island of Hispaniola, and islets off the 

 coast (lie a Vache, Petite Cayemite Island, Grand Cayemite Island, 

 Gonave Island) ; rather rare throughout its range. 



Type locality. — Santo Domingo =Samand. 



*" Only one specimen of each sex examined. With a greater series this difference 

 may be found to be merely individual. 



