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Specific characters. — In general coloration very similar to M. 

 fidcUs from the same locality but immediately distinguishable by 

 absence of white on chin, this color being confined to a band about 

 base of upper mandible extending to lores as in pallescens; black 

 of head and neck extends over entire neck and on fore part of back 

 and over most of breast ; posterior border of black not sharpl\- 

 defined as in fidelis but shading into the slaty color of body ; color 

 of wings, tail and rest of body the same in both these species. 



Measurements. — Wing, 138 mm.; tail, 129; tarsus, 22; culmen, 



42.5- 



