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the head, the neck behind, back, rump, and tail light rufous or cinnamon color. Under parts generally a paler shade of the 

 same rufous as the back, frequently nearly white, but sometimes as dark as the upper parts, and always with more or less 

 numerous circular or oblong spots of black. Quills brownish black, with white bars on their inner webs. Tail tipped with 

 white, frequently tinged with rufous and with a broad subterminal band of black, outer frequently white, tinged with ashy and 

 barred with black. Bill light blue, legs yellow. Back generally with transverse stripes of black, but frequently with very 

 few, or entirely without ; rufous spot on the head, variable in size, and sometimes wanting. 



Younger mah. — Upper parts as above ; wing coverts, and tail ferruginous red, with numerous transverse bands of brownish 

 black. Under parts with numerous longitudinal stripes, and on the sides with transverse bands of brownish black, external 

 feathers of the tail palest, broad subterminal band on the tail obscure or wanting. 



Young. — All the rufous parts of the plumage with wider transverse bands of brownish black; wing coverts dark bluish 

 cinereous, with large circular spots of black ; under parts with longitudinal stripes, and large circular spots of black. 



Total length 11 to 12 inches, wing 7 to 7j, tail 5 to Sj inches. 



H b. The entire continent of America. Specimens in Nat. Museum, Washington, and Mus. Acad. Philadelphia. 



List of specimens. 



