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ru.sty, the sides ami flunks slripod with rufous. (Adult males of some s])Ccios willi 

 lower parts ebieflj' uniform cinnamon-rufous.) Adult males with head black, or 

 striped with black and while, or brown and white. Adult females with head striped 

 with brown and ochraceous or buft', the chin and throat entirely of the latter color. 

 Kest of dried grasses, etc. (sometimes arched over on top), embedded in ground or 

 placed on ground, in meadows, grain-fields, etc. £gijs numerous (12-upward of 

 20), pyriform-ovate, white, usually more or less stained (adventitiously ?) with light 

 brown. 



«'. Adult inah'S with feathers of sides and flanks rufous edged with white and with 



black line between white and rufous, or else entirely rufous. Adult females 



(except in C. virginianus cubanensis) with feathers of sides and flanks rufous 



edged with white, the two colors separated by a blackish line. 



6". Adult males with lower parts always whitish, varied with black and rusty 



as above described. 



Adult males: Broad superciliary stripe, and broad patch covering chin, 

 throat, and malar region, white ; rest of head black, sometimes, 

 especially in winter plumage, mixed with or overlaid by brown ;' 

 sides of neck spotted with white and black, the spots of triangular 

 form. Adult females similar to males, but throat-patch and super- 

 ciliary stripe buff or ochraceous, and the darker stripes of head 

 chiefly brown or rusty. Young: Top of head and ear-coverts dusky 

 slate, or dull grayish ; rest of head dull soiled whitish ; chest and 

 breast dull grayish brown or brownish gray, streaked with whitish ; 

 belly plain white; back rustj^ brownish, more or less streaked with 

 whitish and spotted with blackish. Bowny young : Head dingj- buft', 

 paler, or nearly white, on throat, with a blackish line behind eye 

 and a small spot of same above corner of mouth ; a patch of chestnut 

 on occiput, gradual!}- narrowing anteriorly to a line along middle of 

 forehead; upper parts nearly uniform chestnut; lower parts pale 

 grayish buff, deepening into dull brownish on sides, 

 c'. Feathers of flanks with the black markings narrow, only occasionally, or 

 not at all, interruptii\g the white edgings ; black markings on breast 

 and belly narrow, always much narrower than the white inter- 

 spaces; chest usually chiefly, or entirelj-, light cinnamon. 

 d}. Upper parts with much of rusty, usuallj- with conspicuous largo 

 black blotches on scapulars, tcrtials, and lower back, and with- 

 out verj- distinct light bars. Adult male usually without a well- 

 defined band of uniform pale cinnamon across the chest, imme- 

 diately beneath the black collar. 

 e'. Larger, with colors averaging lighter, especially on lower 

 parts, where black markings arc narrow and usually de- 



' Partially melanistic examples sometimes occur in vhich the thro.it is partly or even wholly block. 

 The Ortyr cattantut of GoL'LD was probubly based on a specimen of this character. 



