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distinctly, sometimes not at all, with brown of a lighter or deeper 

 shade. In some specimens the rufous margin of the feathers, above 

 described, is faded into white, on the outer edge, which color occa- 

 sionally takes the place of the rufous entirely ; in these specimens all 

 the colors are much lighter than described, and a good deal of white 

 is seen on the scapulars and tertiaries, the whole bird having the 

 appearance of being faded. Tail bright rufous, narrowly tipped with 

 white, and with a distinct subterminal black band and a few black 

 spots, most distinct near the shaft and on the inner web and generally 

 towards the base of the tail, as if the remains of former bands ; these 

 are sometimes nearly obsolete. 



Below, with the throat and upper part of fore-neck varying from 

 nearly white, with the tips of the feathers scarcely black, to deep 

 blackish-brown, the base of the feathers only being white ; a very 

 distinct dark beard-stripe from the middle of the ramus of the lower 

 mandible, runs down till it is lost in a patch on each side of the lower 

 part of the neck and upper part of the breast, which is sometimes 

 continued nearly across, forming an interrupted gorget ; the color of 

 this patch varies from a deep blackish-brown, more or less margined 

 with rufous, to a dull slaty ferruginous ; rest of the breast and upper 

 part of abdomen varpng from white to rusty, shafts of the feathers 

 sometimes dark, and with a central linear ferruginous spot, becoming 

 broader towards the dark patch already mentioned, and into which 

 they gradually run. A broad band of dark spots varying much in 

 intensity of color and number, crosses the upper part of abdomen, 

 the central spots of which are generally of an elongated tear-like 

 form, but vary much in shape ; on the sides more frequently form- 

 ing bands, sometimes covering the whole feather, with the exception 

 of a slight edging, more or less irregularly waved, of whitish ; lower 

 part of abdomen and crissum white, more or less rusty ; feathers of 

 tibiaj and thighs varying from white to pale-rusty, sometimes unicolor 

 and sometimes more or less distinctly barred with rufous brown, the 

 bars generally not extending to the margins of the feathers. Under 

 surface of wing nearly white at the base of the feathers, mottled or 

 barred with brown, and shaded suddenly into deep slaty-brown, 

 nearly on a line with the sinuation of the outer primaries. Under 

 surface of tail hoary or silvery rufous, the black showing less distinctly 

 than on the upper surface. 



Young. Above very similar to the adult, but Avith much more 

 white. Tail ashy-brown, narrowly tipped with white, with about 

 eight dark-brown bars. Entire under surface white, with numerous 

 large ovate spots of brownish-black on the sides of the upper part of 

 the breast, and a wide irregular band, formed of spots of the same 

 color, crossing the upper part of abdomen. Crissum and tibiaj with 

 irregular transverse bands and sagittate spots of dark-brown. 



