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feather margined with dusky; forehead, sides of head and neck, and 



entire under parts dull pinkish vinaeeous, palest on the throal and 

 the sides of the head, becoming duller, more whitish, on the middle 

 of the abdomen, and passing into dusky on the under tail-co verts , 

 which are usually edged with whitish or vinaeeous white; feathers of 

 the breasl with partially concealed dusky centers, and those of the 

 head and neck all around with obscure darker margins, giving a 

 decidedly squamate effect; wing-coverts pale gray, more or less 

 strongly shaded with pinkish vinaeeous (the inner ones usually 

 entirely of this color), marked on the outer webs with irregular glossy 

 spots of dark metallic violet, which sometimes are arranged to form 

 one or more bars across the coverts; tertiaries also with one or two 

 violet spots on the outer webs; alula black; primary-coverts black 

 with rufous chestnut centers; primaries rufous chestnut, the tips and 

 outer webs more or less extensively black or dusky brown; secondaries 

 dusky on the outer webs and rufous chestnut on the inner, in gradually 

 decreasing amount; axillaries and under wing-coverts rufous chestnut; 

 middle rectrices dark grayish brown, this color decreasing in amount 

 on the lateral rectrices, which arc black with dusky tips, the two 

 outermost with the tips and distal portion of the outer webs narrowly 

 white; feet flesh-colored; iris orange red; bill "pale red, inclining to 

 orange, dusky at the tip" (Audubon), "dark greenish horn-color at 

 tip, bright orange along commissure, paler and more yellowish orange 

 about the nostrils'' (YVorthington). 



Female similar, but lacking (normally) all trace of vinaeeous: above 

 plain grayish brown, duller and browner than in the male; crown, 

 occiput, and nape dull olive-gray, with a central brownish area; 

 forehead similar but usually much paler; below, including sides of 

 head and neck, light brownish gray, fading into whitish on the throat, 

 chin, and middle of the abdomen; head and neck all around, and the 

 breast, squamate as in the male; under tail-coverts grayish dusky with 

 prominent grayish white tips and margins; wings as in the male, but 

 brown margins and tips of remiges more extensive; wing-coverts pale 

 gray, and spots on inner coverts and tertiaries usually more bronzy 

 in lustre; tail as in the male, and colors of soft parts similar but duller. 



Age variation. — The youngest male examined is one from Amelia 

 Island, Florida, October 4, 1906 (No. 17,062, Bishop Collection). 

 In this bird the general coloration resembles that of the female, but 

 all the feathers of the upper parts, including those of the wing-coverts 



