BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 709 



Adult female.— Ground color of upper parts pale broccoli brown 

 or drab, grayer on wing-coverts and scapulars, everywhere finely 

 vermiculated with dusky, all the feathers (except on rump) with 

 distinct though narrow mesial streaks of blackish, these broader 

 and tending to "herring-bone" pattern on pileum, where the ground 

 color is more strongly tinged with brown; inner webs of ear-tufts 

 grayish white (more buffy toward base), transversely mottled with 

 dusky; outer webs of exterior scapulars mostly pale buff, forming 

 a large, irregular patch on each feather, the lowermost (outermost) 

 middle wing-coverts similarly but less conspicuously marked; sec- 

 ondaries dull grayish brown banded with pale broccoli brown and 

 finely mottled along edges with pale brown and dusky; primaries 

 marked with distinct quadrate spots of pale buffy brown, becoming 

 paler (light brownish buff) on proximal portion of quills, many of 

 these lighter colored spots enclosing a dusky bar; and the darker 

 ones mottled with pale grayish brown; tail similar in coloration to 

 secondaries but the paler bands narrower; face grayish white, finely 

 and rather faintly barred with grayish brown; a broad but somewhat 

 broken band of brownish black across sides of head, from immedi- 

 ately beneath and behind ear-tufts to sides of throat, this black band 

 extensively suffused externally with pale buffy; across middle of 

 throat a series of narrow "herring-bone" streaks of black, connect- 

 ing lower extremities of the black facial rim, and immediately 

 beneath this a small area of immaculate brownish white; ground 

 color of under parts white (the feathers pale buffy beneath surface), 

 everywhere, except on median line of abdomen, anal region, and 

 under tail-coverts, narrowly and rather densely barred with irregular 

 zigzag lines of dusky, upper breast with several longitudinal spots 

 of black, each with an external suffusion of bright brown, the upper- 

 most of these spots narrower (streak-like), the lower decidedly 

 broader; feathers of lower breast (except median portion), sides, 

 flanks, and sides of abdomen with narrow but very distinct median 

 streaks, which occasionally, through coalescence with the fainter 

 transverse lines, tend somewhat to a "herring-bone" pattern; median 

 line of lower breast and abdomen and anal region immaculate white 

 (the feathers pale buffy beneath surface) ; under tail-coverts white, 

 faintly and rather distantly irregularly barred with grayish brown; 

 upper portion of thighs pale buff, faintly and sparsely barred with 

 light brown; tarsi and lower portion of thighs brownish white, trans- 

 versely mottled with grayish brown, chiefly on outer side; under 

 wmg-coverts pale buff, the edge of wing, however, white; bill dusky, 

 the terminal portion pale dull yellowish; length (skin), 205; wing, 



151; tail, 76; culmen, from cere, 14.° 



o One specimen (the type); adult male not seen. 



