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halves, buffy brown to hair brown basally and the terminal darker 

 areas edged and laterally mottled with the same; secondaries and 

 inner primaries fuscous, paling on the inner margin of the inner web 

 to drab, both webs obscurely but thicldy speclded with fuscous-black; 

 six outer primaries broadly black terminally (from the tip to opposite 

 the emargination on the inner web) ; then fuscous on the outer web 

 and paling abruptly to white on the basal part of the inner web, the 

 lighter areas of all the remiges still paler on the under surface; bend 

 of the wing pale ochraceous-buff mixed with fuscous-black; rec trices 

 dusky grayish hair brown, brownest next to the shaft, whitish at 

 extreme base, the inner webs of all but the median pair paling to 

 pale ochraceous-buff internally, both webs abundantly flecked with 

 fuscous-black to black, subterminally broadly fuscous-black (almost 

 solidly so), narrowly tipped with whitish; a black line running back 

 from the eye and widening posteriorly on the side of the neck under 

 the broadened buffy superciliary; cheeks and am^iculars pale ochra- 

 ceous-buft' with narrow shaft streaks of black; chin and middle of upper 

 throat pale ochraceous-buff with very fine blackish shaft streaks; 

 lower throat and breast black, the median part streaked with ochra- 

 ceous-buff, all the black feathers ochraceous-buff basally; abdomen, 

 sides, and under tail coverts light ochraceous-buff to pinkish cinnamon 

 heavily streaked with broad fuscous-black shaft streaks, the streaks 

 becoming telescoped into broad bars on the under tail coverts; flanks 

 and thighs fuscous black, the feathers narrowly edged with rufescent; 

 under wing coverts pale ochraceous-buff subterminally blotched with 

 blackish and tipped with slightly darker ochraceous-buff; iris light 

 yellow; bill blackish; tarsi and toes du'ty greenish white; claws, 

 blackish. 



Natal dovjn. — Unloiown. 



Adult male.—Wmg 485-512 (502.3); tail 218-234 (227); culmen 

 from cere 35-40.6 (37.2); tarsus 119-131 (123); middle toe without 

 claw 60-62 mm. (3 specimens). 



^c?w/^/maZe.— Wing 520-525 (522.5) ; tail 250-270 (261.3); culmen 

 from cere 40-42 (41.3); tarsus 128-135 (131.8); middle toe without 

 claw 52-68 (59.1 mm.).i^ 



Range. — Resident from southern Mexico (Oaxaca: Tehuantepec; 

 Jalisco (Los Mesos)); Guatemala (San Gerdnimo); Panama (Calobre, 

 Veraguas): south to Colombia CAgua Dulce, Santa Marta; Sierra 

 Perijd, Magdalena; Antioquia); Venezuela (Caracas); Ecuador (Rfo 

 Topo; Sabanifla; Chiguinda); and Peru (Chanchamayo ; Amable 

 Maria; Santo Domingo; Inca Mine); apparently scarce (or difficult 

 to find) throughout its range. 



" Six specimens (including the measurements of birds in the Berlin Museum 

 published by Kothe (Orn. Monatsb., xx, 1912, 5). 

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