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transverse spot on each side; back, rump, scapulars, and wing-cov- 

 erts hair brown (rather more decidedly brownish than pileum and 

 hindneck), the back and rump with a few minute longitudinal flecks of 

 whitish, the scapulars with much larger transverse and roundish 

 spots of the same, suffused marginally with pale cinnamon-buffy 

 (those on anterior scapulars mostly of the latter color) ; middle wing- 

 coverts with a few rather large terminal spots of buffy white, some of 

 the greater coverts edged terminally or subterminally on outer webs 

 with the same; secondaries crossed by about four or five narrow 

 bands of pale dull cinnamon-buffy in closed wing, these becoming 

 light brown (barely distinguishable from the very slightly darker 

 interspaces) on underlying portion of outer webs; primaries darker 

 grayish brown (nearly hah brown), their outer webs very indistinctly 

 spotted (in transverse series) with paler brown, the spots much more 

 distinct, and brownish buffy, on distal portion of two longest quills; 

 upper tail-coverts similar in color to rump, etc., but very slightly more 

 rufescent, and with a few minute longitudinal spots or specks of pale 

 cinnamon-buffy; tail deep grayish brown (hair brown), crossed by 

 five transverse series of transversely oval white spots (these largest 

 on middle pair of rectrices, smaller and strongly tinged or suffused 

 with cinnamon-buffy on lateral rectrices), the inner webs with much 

 larger spots in corresponding position; rectrices also whitish at 

 extreme base and narrowly tipped with the same; "eyebrow" 

 and lores dull whitish, the latter with bristly shafts conspicuously 

 black; suborbital and auricular regions dull buffy whitish, rather 

 broadly barred with dark grayish brown; malar region immaculate 

 buffy white anteriorly, becoming nearly pure white posteriorly 

 (beneath auricular region) ; chin dull buffy white; across the throat a 

 broad, unbroken, band of light buffy brown or wood brown, slightly 

 darker along anterior edge (next to the white subauricular patch) ; 

 lower throat and foreneck and median portion of chest immaculate 

 white; sides of foreneck, sides of chest, and sides of breast ligh^ 

 cinnamon-brown or sayal brown, with a few (mostly concealed) small 

 transverse spots of whitish; rest of under parts buffy white, rather 

 broadly striped with cinnamon-brown or sayal brown, the under tail- 

 coverts, however, with only very small and narrow subterminal 

 streaks of the same on longer feathers; legs pale cinnamon- buff, rather 

 strongly tinged with cinnamon on lower part of thighs; under wing- 

 coverts buffy white, with a line of brown streaks on outer side, par- 

 allel with edge of wing, the under primary coverts broadly tipped 

 with grayish brown; under surface of remiges transversely banded 

 with grayish brown and pale buff (the latter broadest), the buffy 

 bands becoming obsolete on distal portion of longer and outermost 

 primaries; bill pale yellowish, darker or horn color on sides of maxilla 



