BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 717 



pinkish fawn color with a mauve-avellaneous cast, the feathers with 

 medio-subterminal wedge-shaped black marks of variable size and 

 number, fewest and smallest on the upper back and the more distal 

 upper wing coverts; upper greater primary coverts fuscous to chaetura 

 black with some grayish cinnamomeous marks; primaries and outer 

 secondaries fuscous to chaetura black very narrowly tipped and 

 margined with grayish white, the inner webs incompletely barred 

 with whitish, the pale bars not reaching the shaft but confluent at 

 the inner edge of the web, the whitish sometimes washed with pinkish 

 cinnamon; the other secondaries with an increasing (from outer to 

 inner) amount of pinkish fawn or grayish pinkish cinnamon on both 

 webs, the innermost secondaries being almost wholly of this color 

 like the scapulars; lower^rback, rump, and upper tail coverts pale 

 neutral gray to light neutral gray, the shafts faintly darker; rec trices 

 light neutral gray narrowly tipped with whitish and crossed by a 

 broad (25-35 mm.) subterminal black band, the inner webs of all 

 but the median pair crossed by several narrow black incomplete bars 

 on their basal halves (occasionally no such bars are present); lores 

 and rather indefinite superciliary lines as forehead; cheeks and auri- 

 culars very pale buffy grayish with fine hairlike dusky shaft streaks, 

 a mustachial stripe extending from the anterior angle of the eye to 

 the sides of the throat deep neutral gray; chin and throat pale car- 

 tridge buff to creamy white sometimes to pale ochraceous-buff ; breast, 

 sides, abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts light buff to 

 grayish light pinkish cinnamon, the feathers of the upper breast with 

 blackish to fuscous shaft streaks, those of the lower breast, upper 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks v*^ith wedge-shaped subterminal spots of 

 the same, these spots varying in size and number; middle of lower 

 abdomen and under tail coverts uniform and usually more cinnamo- 

 meous then the rest of the underparts; thighs similar, but with a few 

 dusky streaks or spots; under wing coverts whitish to whitish buff 

 with dark fuscous spots; the axillars whitish barred with fuscous- 

 brown; orbital area and cere yellow; bill bluish gray becoming black- 

 ish terminally; iris dark brown; tarsi and toes yellow; claws black. 



Adult female. — Forehead cartridge buff to pale buff with dusky 

 hairlike shafts on the feathers; crown, occiput, and nape light sayal 

 brown with a cinnamomeous tinge, each feather with a heavy black 

 shaft streak; back, rump, scapulars, interscapulars, upper wing and 

 tail coverts slightly darker and slightly more rufescent than the head, 

 broadly barred with fuscous, the dark bars narrower than the paler 

 interspaces, the dark bars becoming somewhat narrower stUl on the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts, which are often washed 

 with gray; each feather with a very faintly dusky shaft; primaries as 

 in male, but the whitish areas on the inner webs washed with cinna- 



