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and axillaries ; quills below dusky, yellow along the inner edge ; bill 

 dark horn-colour : " legs and feet yellowish brown " (H. Durnford). 

 Total length 5 - l inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2*9, tail 2, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, slightly tinged with yellow, all the feathers mesially streaked 

 with blackish brown ; lower back and rump uniform brown, washed 

 with ashy olive ; lesser wing-coverts brown, edged with ashy and 

 washed with olive-yellow, the median and greater series edged with 

 wkity brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, edged with yellow, brighter on the quills, the inner secon- 

 daries edged with whitish ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown, with 

 dusky centres ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with yellow, whitish 

 towards the ends of the feathers ; crown of head brown, streaked 

 with blackish brown ; lores and feathers round the eye whitish ; 

 sides of face dull white", streaked with brown, the ear-coverts 

 browner ; throat white ; remainder of under surface ashy white, 

 streaked with brown on the fore neck, breast, sides of bodv, and 

 flanks, the latter pale reddish brown with a slight tinge of yellow ; 

 abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts uniform ashy whitish ; axil- 

 laries yellow : under wing-coverts ashy whitish, tinged with yellow ; 

 quills dusky below, yellow along the inner web: " bill horn-brown, 

 the lower mandible paler ; legs and feet slate-colour ; iris wood- 

 brown " (H. Durnford). Total length 4*8 inches, culmen 0-35, 

 wing 2-55, tail 1-8," tarsus 0-65. 



Young male. Resembles the adult female but is rather more 

 ashy, especially below, where the streaks are smaller and less 

 distinct. 



Hah. Brazil and Argentine Republic to Bolivia. 



