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other scapulars similarly colored, bend downward across the 

 wing, falling below the primaries. Wing coverts, anterior scap- 

 ulars, and sides of back, pure white. Outer webs of secondaries, 

 shining blue black, forming a speculum, the tips white, making a 

 bar below the blue black. Primaries, blackish brown. Under 

 parts, tawny, deepest on breast and middle of abdomen, which 

 are chestnut or even black, grading into light buff or ochra- 

 ceous on sides. A round black spot on each side of the breast in 

 front of primary coverts. Anal regions and under tail coverts, 

 black. Tail, brownish black. Bill, light bluish gray, yellowish 

 at tip. Iris, dark brown. Legs and feet, brownish gray. Total 

 length, about i8 inches; wing, 8;culmen, \\\ tarsus, if. 



Adult Fema/^.— Head and neck, reddish brown, speckled with 

 dusky. Upper parts, dusky; feathers, tipped with fulvous. 

 Wings, dusky; the coverts, tipped with brownish gray; tertials, 

 broadly margined with snuff brown. Tips of greater coverts and 

 secondaries, white, forming two narrow bars across the wing. 

 Primaries, blackish brown; speculum, dull purplish brown. Up- 

 per part of breast, rusty brown, spotted with black; upper parts, 

 sooty brown. Bill, bluish gray. Legs and feet, brownish gray. 

 Total length, 17^ inches; wing, 8; culmen, i^; tarsus, i|. 



