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median wing coverts tipped with yellowish-white 

 forming a double wing-bar ; lores and eye region, 

 whitish-ochre ; ear-coverts and sides of neck, fulvous- 

 brown ; under surface, buff tinged with ochre. 



Habitat : Texas to Mexico (B. M. C, Vol. XII.) 



28. 5. parva. 



Adult male : Crown of the head, nape, mantle, 

 back, wing, upper tail coverts, tail, lores, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and band across neck, black ; lower back 

 and rump, brown ; cheeks, throat, sides of neck and 

 under surface, white; tinged with yellowish below 

 the black neck band, the yellowish being more pro- 

 nounced on sides, flanks and ventral region ; the 

 middle primaries and secondaries have the base of the 

 outer webs white, forming a double wing patch, (the 

 latter is not visible when the wing is closed). Total 

 length 4 in., tail if in. 



Adult female : Fulvous - brown above, lightly 

 washed with olive; under surface, pale yellowish-bufF; 

 sides of face, yellowish-white; double bars of 3'ellow- 

 ish-white cross each wing ; wing-coverts and tail 

 feathers, brown, margined with paler brown. 



Habitat : According to Mus. Cat., Texas to 



Mexico. 



33. .S'. auriia. 



Adult male : Crown of the head, nape, mantle, 

 back, wings, upper tail-coverts, tail, lores, sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat and upper breast, 

 glossy black, with a greenish sheen ; a half-moon 

 shaped patch on sides of neck, and an irregular band 

 of white across the rump ; a double white patch at 

 the base of the primaries and secondaries, only the 



