2f. IIAIIHY C. OBKRHOLSER. 



wcljs ul' si'condaries willi dislincl bars of ocliraceoiis 

 white; ends and oxlornal w(d)s ol' all Lhe wing-quills 

 somcwhat mollled with ochracooiis wliilo; innormost 

 socondai'ies barrod and vermiciilalcd wilb butly whilish ; 

 axillars yollowish white; inferior wing-coverts buffy 

 wbile, mollled with dark brown and ochraceous buff; 

 lesserwin^-coverls mollled wilh deep tawny, inner median 

 coverls with bully white, exleriorones with tawny ; some 

 of lhe greater coverls broadly lipped on onter webs with 

 white or buffy white, these on inner webs and lhe 

 remainder at tips vermicnlated wilh buffy white; primary 

 coverts conspicuously indented on exterior webs with 

 pale ochraceous ; largest feather of alula indented with 

 bulT and buffy white, the dislal half very broadly, form- 

 ing a slripe on both webs; remaining feathers of alula 

 indented on both webs wilh JjulTy ochraceous. Tail fus- 

 cous, with live bars of pale butf or bulTy white, these 

 much broader on exterior reclrices, the terminal portions 

 of all the feathers vermicnlated with dull bulTy white. 

 Nasal feathers dull white with a faint buffy finge, tip])e(l 

 with vandyke brown ; feathers immediately surrounding 

 the eyes burnt umher brown, but shading to pale buffy 

 ochraceous posleriorly ; rest of suborbital region, with 

 auriculars, grayish white vermiculaled with dull brown, 

 the longest feathers of latter lipped with tawny; most of 

 the rutr feathers white or buffy white, shading distally 

 inlo tawny, many of them vermicnlated, and nearly all 

 tipped very narrowly with dark vandyke brown; the 

 feathers immediately behind ear-coverts, are, however, 

 shoi'ter, stiller than the remainder of the ruff, and are 

 nearly all wilhout any white, being tawny ochraceous, 

 very slighlly tipped with dark vandyke brown ; ear tufls 

 inconspicuous, the longer fealhei's dull bully white, the 

 shorler ochraceous, all eilher barred, mollled or vermic- 

 ulaled with brown aud brownish black ; chin pale dull 

 bulV, unmarked, throat pale tawny ochraceous, most of 

 the feathers barred with dull brown ; remainder of lower 

 parls white, ralher grayish anleriorly, nuuiy of the feath- 



