234 A Description of the Birds 
front and anterior part of crown black, rest of crown and nape 
rufous, the last with some dark variegations, or a transverse 
black band extending from the black of the cheeks; back of 
neck, interscapulars, back, upper tail coverts, and shoulders 
hoary bluish gray, with dark slate colored or blackish blue 
transverse bands ; from the eye, on each side, extends a black 
stripe as far as the nape, and another from each angle of the 
mouth for a short way down the side of the neck; sides of 
latter pale tawny white, which is also the color of the chin, 
throat, breast, belly, under tail coverts, and thighs. Primary 
and secondary wing coverts hoary blue, with dusky grayish 
white transverse bands; primary wing feathers brownish, 
with the inner vanes, for the greater part of their length, 
partially crossed by somewhat conical white spots; seconda- 
ries the same ; tail hoary white, with ten or eleven moderate- 
ly-broad black bands, and the intermediate spaces thinly 
sprinkled with minute brownish black dots or lines ; tips of the 
feathers all white ; legs and toes yellow ; claws black. Length 
from bill to base of tail eight inches; length of latter seven 
inches. 
Female.—Length from bill to base of tail nine inches and 
a half; length of tail seven inches and a half; front, and 
nearly all the crown black; the two black bands on sides of 
head less deep, and smaller than in the male; the rufous of 
head less clear, and the back with its colors duller, and its 
transverse bands more inclined to brownish black. 
Young.—Head rufous, with the front and nape a little 
variegated with black; back of neck and interscapulars 
blackish, with the feathers finely tipt with rufous; back, 
upper tail coverts, and shoulders blackish brown, with the 
feathers all broadly tipt with rufous; the black stripes on 
sides of head less strongly marked than in full grown 
specimens ; sides of the neck rufous; chin and throat tawny 
white; breast and anterior part of belly pale rufous, with a 
roundish or oviform black blotch towards the middle of each 
feather; hinder part of belly, under tail coverts, and thighs 
pale rufous, without variegations. Primary and secondary 
wing coverts blackish brown, clearly tipt with rufous; pri- 
mary wing feathers blackish, with the inner vanes marked 
by transverse oviform pale tawny spots, the extremities of 
which neither reach their shafts nor inner edges; all the 
feathers finely tipt with lhght rufous; secondaries simuarly 
colored, marked as the primaries, and all broadly tipt with 
rufous. ‘Tail blackish, with seven or eight irregular transverse 
rufous bands, and all the feathers broadly tipt with the last 
color; bill bluish green, with shades of black, and the lower 
re with a very faint tinge of greenish yellow at base; 
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