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deep brown; back and rump similar to the crown; scapulars with very 

 large blackish-brown velvety spots, encircled by a buff line; upper 

 wing-coverts with rounded cream- white spots; primaries deep brown, 

 banded with pale rufous; secondaries similar, but mottled on the outer 

 webs; innermost secondaries like the scapulars; innermost pair of 

 rectrices colored like the back and rum]), the other pairs deep brown, 

 indistinctly barred with rufous near the base, tipped witli white; lower 

 parts paler than the upper surface; a band of silky white across the 

 throat; feathers of the abdomen with a white tip and a dark brown 

 line before the white tip; "iris brown. " Total length about 8.5 inches 

 [=204.5 mm.], wing 5.2 [132.1 mm.], tail 4 [101.6 mm.], tarsus 0.6 

 [15.24 mm.]<^ 



Adult female. — Prevailing color of pileum anteriorly and laterally 

 finely mottled buffy grayish, paler along the lateral margin; median 

 portion of crown and occiput chiefly chestnut, finely mottled or sprin- 

 kled with dusky, the underlying portion of the feathers the same 

 color as sides of crown ; back finely mottled or vermiculated dark rusty 

 or chestnut and duU buify, the former prevaiHng; scapulars finely 

 mottled dull grayish buffy (like sides of crown), the innermost row 

 of feathers marked with sharply defined spots of black or mixed 

 black and chestnut, each spot surrounded by a narrow ring (more 

 or less distinct) of duU light buffy; exterior scapulars with outer 

 webs mostly chestnut mottled with dusky, the longer scapulars 

 similarly marked, but with the chestnut patch extending over greater 

 portion of both webs ; general color of wing-coverts dull chestnut, finely 

 mottled with dusky, but the general color relieved by a cluster of 

 buffy spots on central portion of wing-covert area; secondaries 

 coarsely banded with dusky and pale chestnut or chestnut-buffy, 

 the former prevailing basaUy, the latter more broken up terminally 

 into a confused mottling of pale chestnut or duU buffy and grayish 

 dusky, the feathers margined at tips with buffy; primary coverts 

 dusky, with large spots of tawny-ochraceous on outer webs; primaries 

 banded with dusky and tawny-ochraceous, the latter wider on outer 

 webs, where dusky bands are more broken, but narrower and deeper 

 in color on inner webs, where dusky bands are very distinct and 

 mostly "solid" dusky; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts (the 

 longer of the latter wanting however), finely mottled grayish buffy, 

 chestnut, and dusky, the prevaihng color being a dull bufty brownish; 

 tail fuiely mottled pale chestnut, buffy, and grayish dusky, crossed 

 by about ten indistinct lighter and darker bars, the four outer rectrices 

 (on each side) tipped with dull white (becoming buffy on fourth and 

 outer web of first), this white tip broadest on second rectrix (from 

 outside), on which it measures about 12 mm. wide; sides of head nearly 

 uniform duU tawny-ochraceous, this deepest on lores, superciliary 



a Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 581. 



