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less broken by dusky streaks) of pale dull buffy and bordered laterally 

 by a broad superciliary stripe of pale dull buffy, narrowly streaked 

 with dusky; a broad dusky loral stripe, extending from above rictus 

 to anterior angle of eye, and a less distinct postocular streak of dusky; 

 napo pale dull buffy passing into light grayish brown on lower hind- 

 neck, streaked with dusky, the streaks broader and less dark toward 

 back; scapulars, interscapulars, lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts deep grayish brown, the feathers tipped (at least laterally) and 

 spotted along edges (not sharply) with paler grayish brown and dull 

 grayish buffy, the latter more evident on upper tail-coverts and lower 

 rump, where sometimes forming more or less distinct bars; wing- 

 coverts and secondaries similar to scapulars and interscapulars but 

 (except anterior lesser coverts) paler grayish brown with distinct 

 shaft-streaks of dusky and, where" unworn, more distinctly margined 

 terminal!}^ v/ith pale grayish buffy; primary coverts and primaries 

 dusky, the four innermost primaries spotted on outer webs (nearly 

 if not quite to shafts) with pale grayish buffy (this sometimes mottled 

 with grayisli brown) : shaft of outermost primary white, that of the 

 next nearly white, the others light grayish brown; tail grayish brown 

 (light hair brown or grayish drab) barred with dusky (the dusky bars 

 considerably narrower than the grayish brown interspaces), the rec- 

 trices narrowly and indistinctly margined at tips with pale grayish 

 buffy or dull buffy whitish; chin and upper throat (sometimes whole 

 throat) immaculate dull white or buffy white; rest of under parts, 

 together with sides of head (beneath eyes) and sides of neck, pale 

 dull buff, the lower breast, abdomen, anal region, and antero-median 

 under tail-coverts immaculate, the sides of head and neck, foreneck, 

 chest, and upper breast slightly tinged with brownish and streaked 

 with deep grayish brown, the sides and outer flanks strongly tinged 

 or suffused with pale cinnamon or vinaceous-buff and barred or trans- 

 versely spotted with grayish brown, the lateral and posterior under 

 tail-coverts similarly but less heavily and more irregularly marked; 

 axillars vinaceous-buff, obhquely barred (rather broadly) with gray- 

 ish brown; under wing-coverts vinaceous-buff with irregular V- 

 shaped spots or bars of grayish brown; inner webs of primaries gray- 

 ish brown, deeply serrated or serrately barred with light vinaceous- 

 buff; bill blackish, the basal portion of mandible ])ale brownish (more 

 or less flesh colored or lilaceous in life); iris dark brown; legs and feet 

 dusky (grayish in life). 



Adult 7nale.--Wmg, 231-257 (239.1); tail, 88-101 (92.9); exposed 

 culmen, 77-93.5 (83.1); tarsus, 52-61 (55.7); middle toe, 33-36.5 

 (35).« 



a Thirteen specimens. 



