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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ing anteriorly, beneath eye, to base of nasal tufts, the two sometimes 

 confluent on side of neck, behind the black auricular stripe ; malar region 

 dull whitish or pale brownish buffy anteriorly, more or less distinctly 

 barred with dusky (plain light brownish or dull grayish anteriorly), 

 black posteriorly, where the black is continued backward as a narrow 

 stripe, which usually sends a lateral branch upward to meet the pos- 

 terior end of the black auricular stripe; under parts dull brownish 

 buffy or pale Isabella color," paler (approaching dull grayish white) 

 on chin and upper tliroat, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the sides of 

 chest and breast marked with streaks or, usually, more or less guttate, 

 spots of black, the sides spotted, the flanks transversely spotted or 

 barred, the under tail-coverts with transverse bars or spots of the 

 same, usually of more or less V-shaped form; under wing-coverts dull 

 brownish white, sparsely (sometimes indistinctly) spotted or streaked 

 with black or dusky; inner web of remiges dull slate or dusky, with 

 large, roundish spots of white, arranged in transverse series, on inner 

 half of web; bill horn color, more or less darker on maxilla, paler on 

 mandible ; iris brown ; legs and feet dusky horn color (olive-greenish 

 in life); length (skms), 160-168 (162); wing, 95-101 (97.3); tail, 

 52.5-57 (54.9); exposed culmen, 19.5-21 (20.2); tarsus, 18-18.5 

 (18.1); outer anterior toe, 11.5-13 (11.8).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red, the 

 pileum uniform black, passing into soo.ty brown on anterior portion of 

 forehead; length (skins), 145-168 (152); wing, 93-98 (95.1); tail, 

 49-52.5 (50.1); exposed culmen, 17.5-19.5 (18.5); tarsus, 16-16.5 

 (16.3); outer anterior toe, 10.5-12 (11.6).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but with nape and sides 

 of occiput uniform black, the red confined to the crown, black mark- 

 ings duller, all the markings less sharply defined, and plumage of 

 softer texture. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but usually with much 

 less of red on crown (often only a few of the feathers tipped with red) . 



Middle and northern Vera Cruz (Orizaba ; Mirador; Carrizal; Cor- 

 dova; Huatusco, near Cordova; Jalapa; Coatepec; Jico; Plan del 



o The color deeper in fresh, or winter, plumage, paler in summer. 

 b Five specimens. 



The birds from southern Tamaulipas are intermediate between typical D. s. scalaris 

 and D. s. sympledus, but are nearer the former, both in measurements and coloration. 



