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edged (except distally) with pale yellowish olive; upper tail-coverts 

 pale buffy yellow; tail dull black, the middle pair of rectrices with 

 inner web and inner portion of outer web pale buffy yellow (pale 

 naples yellow or straw yellow), the two outer pairs with a broad, 

 obhque subterminal area of the same or pale yellowish buff; auricular 

 region plain light yellowish or buffy olive, the feathers along upper 

 margin wdth a guttate or cuneate streak of dull white, the general 

 light buffy olive color fading below to pale olive-buffy on cliin and 

 throat, this passing into deeper olive-buffy or pale buffy olive (more 

 buffy than color of auricular region) on chest and upper breast; rest 

 of under parts light buffy yellow (nearly straw or naples yellow) 

 rather broadly but not sharply streaked with grayish brown or olive; 

 under wing-coverts mostly buff, the inner webs of remiges broadly 

 edged with pale yellowish buff or buffy yellow; bill blackish ter- 

 minally, more grayish basally; feet dusky grayish (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 83-85 (84); wing, 49.5-53.5 (51.4); tail, 24-25.5 (24.6); 

 culmen, 10.5-12 (11.1); tarsus, 11.5-12.5 (12); outer anterior toe, 

 10-10.5 (10.4).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but crown without orange 

 streaks (sparsely and minutely dotted with white), the ground color 

 dark sooty brown rather than blackish ; length (skin), 76; wing, 50,5; 

 tail, 24; culmen, 12; tarsus, 12.5; outer anterior toe, 10.5.^ 



Young male. — Essentially like adults, but dark sooty of pHeum 

 passing anteriorly into light brownish gray on forehead, nape and 



°- Four specimens. 

 t One specimen. 



Average measurements of the several forms of this species (according to material 

 examined) are as follows: 



3622°— Bull. .50, pt G— 14- 



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