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and with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts streaked with 

 smoke gray and light smoke gray, the long coverts with 

 avellaneous; tail brownish fuscous black, anteriorly mar- 

 gined on both webs with very pale brownish or brownish 

 white; primaries fuscous; rest of the wing of the same 

 color as the tail, but the longest scapulars and the inner- 

 most greater wing-coverts broadly margined exteriorly with 

 cinnamon, the lesser coverts edged with dull buffy brown, 

 the bend of the wing dull reddish; remainder of the wing- 

 coverts and quills margined with dull pale buff and with 

 whitish ; superciliary stripe white, anteriorly with a slight 

 wash of buffy; postocular streak fuscous; the rest of the 

 sides of the head grayish white with a slight dull buflfy 

 tinge, and flecked with pale fuscous, the lores darker; nar- 

 row rictal and submalar streaks fuscous ; sides of the neck 

 very pale buff}^ grayish, thickly but finely streaked with 

 fuscous; chin, and upper throat pale ochraceoas salmon, 

 immaculate except for a few small spots of dusky on the 

 posterior portion of the latter; rest of lower parts dull 

 creamy white, with a buify tinge on the abdomen and cris- 

 sum, and broadly streaked with fuscous, most so on the 

 sides, flanks, and crissum, but elsewhere the white inter- 

 spaces broader than these dark markings ; lining of wing 

 smoke-gray; edge of wing cinnamon. 



Measurements. — Male:^ Wing, 113-120.0 (average, 115.3) 

 mm.; taU, 83-92 (86.8) ; total culmen, 22-24 (22.6) ; tarsus, 

 26-31.5 (29) ; middle toe without claw, 20.5-22.3 (21.1). 



Female:- Wing, 81-98 (average, 93) mm.; tail, 63-72.5 

 (68.5) ; total culmen, 18.6-22 (19.5) ; tarsus, 24.5-26.5 (25.6) ; 

 middle toe without claw, 17-19.5 (18.5). 



Geographic distrihntion. — Central southern Texas and 

 northeastern Mexico. Breeds north to central Texas; west 

 to eastern Coahuila; south to Nuevo Leon and northern 

 Vera Cruz; and east to Tamaulipas and to the Brazos 

 River in Texas. 



' Seven specimens, from Texas. 



- Nine specimens, from Texas, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. 



