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or most saturated on back; pileum and hindneck with numerous 

 small rounded or guttate spots of dull white to pale rusty; across the 

 lower hindneck a broken collar of mixed black and white, this mar- 

 gined posteriorly by more or less of buffy to pale tawny or cinnamon- 

 rufous; back nearly if not quite immaculate on surface, but with 

 concealed small spots or bars of buffy or pale tawny-buff, the rump 

 similarly marked but with spots or bars more exposed; upper tail- 

 coverts with transverse spots or bars of white, mostly concealed; tail 

 brownish black or blackish brown, crossed by six to seven narrow 

 bands of white, these falling far short of shafts on both webs; outer 

 webs of scapulars more or less barred or transversely spotted with 

 dull white to pale tawny; wing-coverts more or less spotted or barred 

 (uTegularly) with dull whitish, buffy, or pale ta^vny; secondaries 

 crossed by four or five transverse series of dull brownish buffy or 

 dull pale tawny spots (on edges), those on proximal secondaries becom- 

 ing more brownish and much less distinct inwardly, those on distal 

 secondaries more sharply defined and confined to edge; primaries 

 dusky brown with more or less distinct spots of lighter brown on outer 

 webs, those on distal portion of longer primaries much more distinct 

 and paler (dull white to buffy); "eyebrow" (superciliary region) and 

 lores dull white, the shafts of the bristly loral feathers blackish; 

 auricular and suborbital regions barred with dusky brown and pale 

 fulvous or dull buffy; malar region and chin immaculate white; across 

 middle of throat a conspicuous broad band varying in color from 

 uniform blackish brown to lighter brown and buffy or pale tawny (the 

 latter mostly on tips of feathers) , this dark band extending laterally, on 

 each side, to sides of neck; a conspicuous white patch covermg upper 

 chest and median portion of foreneck, usually confluent posteriorly 

 with a white (usually immaculate) median stripe on breast and abdo- 

 men; sides of breast, sides, and flanks brown (mummy brown, argus 

 brown, natal brown, or roods brown), '^ broken by transverse spots or 

 irregular bars of dull whitish or buffy to pale rusty, sometimes with 

 blackish transverse spots or bars also, especially on flanks, the inner 

 portion of these brownish lateral areas (next to the white median area) 

 broadly streaked with black; legs dull brownish white to pale rusty 

 brown, heavily mottled with brown; under tail-coverts white, the 

 longer ones with blackish mesial streaks on distal portion; under wing- 

 coverts buffy white, those near edge of wing streaked with dusky 

 brown, the streaks sometimes coalesced and forming a stripe running 

 parallel with the edge; under surface of remiges grayish brown trans- 

 versely spotted with white, except on distal portion of longer and 

 outermost primaries; bill pale dull yellowish; iris bright lemon yel- 

 low; naked portion of toes dull j^ellowish gray (m dried skins). 



o Of " Color Standards and Color Nomenclature " (1912). 



