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side of the head, below the eyes, including the malar region and chin, pure white ; rest of neck, 

 entire upper parts, sides, and Hanks, rich chestnut-rufous or purplish-ferruginous ; wing-coverts 

 and middle of the rump dusky grayish brown, minutely mottled with paler ; remiges dull brownish 

 dusky ; rectrices brownish black, the shafts deep black ; lower parts white on the surface, but the 



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concealed portion of all the feathers dark brownish gray, showing when the feathers are disarranged 

 and in midsummer specimens completely exposed by abrasion of the tips of the feathers ; jugnlum 

 strongly washed with fulvous-buff, this sometimes invading the abdomen. Lower tail-coverts 

 entirely white, to the roots of the feathers. " Bill and edges of the eyelids grayish blue ; iris 



hazel ; feet dull grayish blue, webs inclining to dusky ; claws grayish brown " (Audubon). Adult 

 female ; Top of the head, down to below the eyes, and upper parts generally, dusky grayish brown, 

 minutely freckled with pale grayish fulvous (more reddish on the head) ; remainder of the bead 

 dirty grayish white, crossed longitudinally by a stripe of speckled dusky, running from the rictus 

 back across the auriculars, parallel with the lower edge of the brown of the top of the head ; neck 

 pale brownish gray, fading gradually into the white of the chin ; lower parts, except sides and 

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