﻿RILEY] BIRDS FROM WEST [NDI1 283 



black; rum]) rufous; tail, except outer feather, dark rufous with in- 

 terrupted bars of black, a broad subterminal Mack bar, the tip rufous; 

 the outer tail-feather huffy white at the base and on the outer web, 

 rest rufous with only a narrow black shaft-streak, the subterminal 

 black bar reaching little beyond tin- shaft; forehead, superciliary 

 .streak, cheeks, throat, breast, and under tail-coverts huffy white: 

 upper breast with narrow black streaks, lower breast and flanks with 

 oval black spots; an ochraceous-buff collar on hind part oi neck; 

 rictal stripe, stripe on side of neck, a spot a little lower down, and 

 another on occiput black; primaries black, narrowly tipped with buff, 

 the inner web with large white spots in a sawtooth pattern, v<\<^<\ 

 with rufous; secondaries black, tipped with slaty and buff, the inner 

 web of the feathers with large white spots, the inner feathers with 

 some slaty and rufous bars and spots; primary coverts black barred 

 with slatv and rufous; lesser coverts slate gray, the feathers tipped 

 and barred near the base with rufous and black, the subterminal bar 

 on some of the feathers being- contracted into a cordate spot ; under 

 wing-coverts buff. Wing, 169; tail, 121 ; culmen, 12.5. 



Variations in the males. — The series before me from the various 

 islands south of the Anegada channel shows considerable variation 

 within certain limits. In some the black bars on the tail do not reach 

 the shaft, while in others they are complete ; the rumps on some are 

 spotted with black ; the lesser wing-coverts are not tipped with 

 rufous, and the black spots are more pronounced in some than others ; 

 the rufous spots on the head in two specimens (Xos. 77.S44, Do- 

 minica; 96.481, Guadeloupe) is very extensive, occupying nearly the 

 whole top of head, and are without the narrow black shaft-streaks; 

 the huffy collar is absent in nearly all the specimens except the one 

 described; in about half the specimens the tip of the tail is white; in 

 most of the series the breast is more or less tinged with ochraceous- 

 buff ; the under wing-coverts are sometimes spotted sparsely with 

 black ; the outer tail-feather in some specimens is white barred with 

 black, and between this condition and the one described there is almost 

 every variation with hardly two exactly alike. 



Females. — The females differ from the males in being lighter in 

 color ; more heavily barred above ; the rufous spot on the head not so 

 pronounced and the shaft-streaks more numerous and heavier; the 

 black bars on the tail are heavier, except the subterminal bar which 

 is not so wide, and the bars are never broken ; the lesser coverts of 

 the wing are rufous barred with black, not slaty, the spots on the 

 underparts are more numerous and streaky. 



Habitat. — This form probably inhabits most of the Lesser Antilles 



