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^' brown edged with paler brown ; crown of head, slightly more 

 " ashy than the back; lores and feathers round the eye, ashy 

 " whitish ; ear-coverts, dull ashy brown ; cheeks and throat, 

 " pale ashy ; sides of neck like the head ; fore neck and breast, 

 " dark ashy brown, washed with olive ; abdomen, whitish ; 



sides of body and flanks, olive-brown : thighs, olive-brown ; 



under tail-coverts, pale fulvous; 'iris, dark brown' (J. 



Stolzniann). Total length, 3-5 inches; tail, 1-5 inches. 

 "Habitat: Ecuador to Peru." 



9. 5. talasco. 



The general colour of the upper surface is aslieu- 

 brown, mottled with darker (blackish) centres on the 

 upper back ; rump and upper tail-coverts more ashen 

 and only slightly mottled, a white band across the 

 lower rump ; the lesser coverts as back with blackish 

 bases ; the remainder of the wing-coverts are black- 

 ish with light brown edges and much lighter at their 

 ends; the inner primaries and secondaries have whit- 

 ish margins, and are white at the base, forming a 

 double wing-patch ; tail-feathers, blackish with ashen 

 margins and tips and white at their bases ; crown of 

 head dark ashen with mintite dark streakings; nape, 

 sienna-brown ; a fine white line divides the cheeks 

 from the throat, which is chestnut with a purplish 

 sheen ; sides of neck, light brown ; remainder of 

 under surface white, washed with sandy-brown on the 

 breast, and streaked with blackish on the sides and 

 flanks ; beak, blackish ; legs and feet ashen-brown. 

 Total length 4 in., tail \\ in. 



According to the Museum Catalogue the adult 

 male in winter plumage is much browner, with darker 

 brown centres to feathers ; the head is brown, and the 

 light edges to the wing-coverts and quills broader and 



