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ors with broad shaft stroaks of dark brownish black, 

 Ihosc (lark streaks iisiially niore or loss bordorcd with 

 tawny or ochraceous, nearly all the foathers vorniiciilalod 

 or barred with dark Ijrowii, loasl niimerously on crissum, 

 where also the shaft streaks are rodiiced to a minimiim; 

 tibiao pale ochraceous bull", with indistiiict spots of brown ; 

 tarsi bulTy white, sparsely marked with small spots of 

 (lull brown. 



RuFOUs PHASE. — ( F'emale adult, from near Apache, 

 Arizona.) Similar in pallern of coloration to the gray 

 phase just describe(I, Ijul dark markings above coarser 

 and more conspicuous; lh(^ plumage, especially of anter- 

 ior portions, strongly sulliised above and below with 

 deep rufous ; the rnfescent borders to the black longitud- 

 inal markings on under parts broader. 



Male in first plu.mage. — (Specimen from Fort (h'ook, 

 California.) Above brownish gray, rather lighler, and 

 except on head somewhat browner than the adult in gray 

 phase; head and nncha more grayish than back, vermic- 

 ulated with white ; remainder of upper parts fmely 

 mottled with whitish and buffy, this coarsest on cervix ; 

 outer vanes of scapnlars ochraceous, more or less marked 

 with color of back ; wings and tail nearly as in the adult ; 

 forehead, short superciliary stripe and narial vibrissae 

 buffy white ; auriculars and post auricular region burnt 

 umher brown mixed with blackish gray aud ochraceous ; 

 chiu bull, almost immaculate ; remainder of lower parts 

 duU white, strongly tinged anteriorly with buffy, and 

 across the breast with ochraceous, everyw^here with 

 somewhat irregulär transverse markings of dull brown, 

 these narrow and numerous anteriorly, but posteriorly 

 much broader ; legs bull'y ochraceous, heavily marked 

 with dark brown. 



The absence of suflicient malerial rcnders it impossible 

 to determine whether or not the immature specimen above 

 described belongs to ivMQ ßammeolus or to the subspecies 

 idahoe?isis, but it is retained under the former until future 

 Observation shall settle the matter. 



