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Adult male. General colour above brown, with a slight wash of 

 ashy olive, the lower back and rump chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with 

 ashy olive, paler on the ends of the greater series ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown edged -with ashy, whitish 

 on the margins of the primaries, the inner ones of which have a half- 

 concealed spot of white at the base ; upper tail-coverts ashy olive, 

 slightly washed with chestnut on the edges ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, the centre ones shaded with ashy, all the feathers margined 

 with paler brown, the tips also paler : crown of head like the back, 

 with a slight reddish tinge on the forehead ; lores dusky brown ; 

 ear-coverts light olive-brown, with paler shaft-lines: cheeks and 

 entire under surface of body chestnut; a small spot of white at the base 

 of the cheeks; thighs brown washed with chestnut; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts ashy, with whitish edges ; axillaries 

 creamy white, slightly washed with rufous ; quills below blackish 

 brown, creamy white along the inner edge. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 0-35, wing 2-05, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 uniform earthy brown with a slight olive tinge, the rump like the 

 back ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts, 

 as well as the bastard-wing, dark brown, edged rather broadly with 

 ochreous buff, the bastard-wing more narrowly ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, edged with olive-brown, the secondaries broadly 

 margined with ochreous buff like the greater coverts ; upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, paler at tips, and 

 edged with olive-brown ; crown of head like the back ; lores, eyelid, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body pale 

 ochreous brown, the throat a little paler and shaded with ashy, as 

 also the fore neck ; abdomen creamy buff; sides of body, flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts ochreous buff; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ochreous buff with ashy bases ; quills below dusky, 

 whitish along the inner edge. Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 035, 

 wing 1-95, tail 1*55, tarsus 0-5. 



The size of the white wing-spot varies greatly, and is very con- 

 spicuous in some specimens, and hardly perceptible in others. 



There is apparently a seasonal plumage, when the bill is brown 

 instead of black, the plumage browner, and the brown edges to the 

 wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers broader and more conspicuous. 



The skins from Panama appear to be somewhat smaller aud to 

 lack the white spot at the base of the cheeks ; at least this is the 

 case in the two males in the Salvin-and-Godman collection. The 

 wing in these two birds is 2 inches, in Colombian examples 2-05, 

 in those from Guiana 2-05-2-15, and from Tobago 1-95 inch. 



The difference in intensity of the rufous colouring of the under 

 surface is probably due to age, and has apparently nothing to do 

 with locality (cf. Berlepsch, Z. c, and Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 p. 351). 



The young male at first resembles the adult female, but is more 

 decidedly olive above, and has traces of cinnamon colour on the 



