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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



more or less, by dusky marbling and crossed by several irregular 

 oblique bars (in ''herring-bone" pattern) of uniform dusky; other 

 rectrices dark sooty brown or sooty blackish crossed near end by an 

 interrupted white subterminal band, preceding which are large, irreg- 

 ular, broken spots of pale grayish buffy; malar, suborbital, and auric- 

 ular regions sooty blackish, the first and second spotted with pale buffy 

 or dull buffy whitish, the last streaked, more or less, with the same 

 or with cinnamon-buff; chin, upper throat, and subam-icular region 

 immaculate white, forming a very conspicuous y\-shaped patch; 

 lower throat and upper chest dusky grayish brown with large spots 

 of buff; lower chest vermiculated with dusky and pale buffy grayish 

 or dull grayish white, the last wdth a tendency to form irregular indis- 

 tinct spots ; rest of under parts pale to deep buff barred with dusky 

 (the bars much narrower than the interspaces), the under tail-coverts 

 deeper buff, with the bars much farther apart; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts deep buff, barred with dusky; under surface of primaries 

 dusky grayish brown or dull brownish slate, the four outermost 

 crossed, at about middle, by a broad band of white; under surface 

 of tail showing broad, more or less broken, bars or transverse spots of 

 pale buff or buffy white anterior to the white subterminal band ; bill 

 dusky; iris blackish brown; legs and feet browiiish; length (sldns), 

 199-221 (209) ;« wing, 161.3-176 (169.4); tail, 92.5-102.5 (99.1); 

 exposed culmen, 5-6.2 (5.7); tarsus, 12.5-13.8 (13.3); middle toe, 

 14-14.7 (14.4).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but lacking the white 

 subterminal band on tail as well as the white patch on outer webs of 

 primaries, the latter with proximal portion marked with large spots 

 of pinkish cinnamon or vinaceous-cinnamon, and wliite throat-mark 

 more restricted as well as more or less suffused with (sometimes 

 wholly replaced by) pinkish cinnamon or deep pinkish buff; length 

 (skins), 198-216 (206) f wing, 158.5-168 (162.1) ; tail, 90-98.5 (94.4); 

 exposed culmen, 5-6.5 (5.8); tarsus, 12-14 (13.1); middle toe 13-15.3 

 (14.1).'' 



