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Adult Male in Moull/,i,if /V//w,?-r.— Like the adult female, 

 but darker, and exhibiting a brilliant speculum. 



}',;/,;;^r._Also like the female, the males always distinguishable 

 from the females by having a speculum on the wing. 



Downy VoKng.—Cvov^n of head, back of neck, and upper 

 parts, olive brown, with a dull white stripe on each side of back. 

 Yellowish white stripe over eye, and a brown one through the 

 eye from bill, and a spot of the same color over the ears. Lores, 

 brownish. Under parts, grayish white. 



