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and broadly edged with white on botli webs : lower back and rump 

 of a lead-colour ; upper tail-coverts minutel}' banded with blackish 

 and whitish ; breast aud abdomen rufous, with black streaks along 

 the middle of the feathers; sides and flanks blackish, finely dotted 

 more or less with rufous ; under tail-coverts blackish, stained more 

 or less with rufous and grey ; wing-coverts bluish lead-colour ; 

 speculum ou the secondaries glossy green ; two white bands across 

 the wings, one at the tip of the greater coverts, the other at the tip 

 of the secondaries ; primaries brown ; tertials of a bluish lead- 

 colour ; under wing-coverts and axillaries greyish ; tail-feathers 

 greyish brown, with the shafts whitish above, pure white below : 

 bill yellow ; feet reddish ; " iride castanea " {Museo C'hileno). Total 

 leugth about 17 inches, wing 7'-5, tail o'25, culmen 1*4, tarsus I'ti. 



Female. Upper part of the head and middle of the nape of a lead- 

 colour ; posterior half of the cheeks and sides of the neck with 

 narrow black and grey bands ; anterior part of the cheeks, throat, 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts of a bright cinnamon- 

 colour ; feathers of the back and scapulars black along the middle, 

 edged with grey on both webs ; lower back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, wings, and tail as in the male. In size somewhat less than 

 the male. 



Yoimg male. Upper parts almost the same as in the females, but 

 the upper part of the head of a dull brown-grey ; on the head many 

 black feathers, showing the transition from youth to adult stage ; 

 lower parts white ; sides barred with white and blackish brown ; 

 a few cinnamon feathers on the abdomen and uuder tail-coverts, 

 showing that young males also pass through the female plumage. 



Younrj ill down. Upper parts pale brown, underparts white ; 

 sides of the head white, with a brown band from behiud the eye to 

 the occiput ; a white patch on the interscapular region ; two white 

 bands from the scapular region along the sides of the back and 

 rump to the sides of the base of the tail ; wings pale brown, 

 broadl}- edged with white on the posterior edge; tail-feathers much 

 developed, whitish, freckled with brown, and with a subapical brown 

 band and a white one at the tip [Mus. Turhi). 



Hah. Elvers of the Chilian Andes. 



