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coverts brown like the wing-quills, the primary coverts with a few 

 buff and brownish white spots, chiefly on inner webs, the others 

 heavily spotted and mottled, in many places confluently, with cream 

 white, brownish white, and buff, these light markings forming on 

 the median and distal lesser coverts a conspicuous and almost solid 

 patch; moustachial stripe and sides of head and neck dark brown 

 like the ground color of upper parts, the subocular, postocular, and 

 auricular regions, together with the sides of neck, conspicuously, 

 the last-mentioned broadly, streaked with ochraceous buff and tawny 

 ochraceous, the moustachial stripe much spotted and streaked with 

 ochraceous buff and light tawny ochraceous; an ill-defined super- 

 ciliary stripe consisting of spots and streaks of whitish and buffy, 

 posteriorly confluent with the light streaks on the side of the neck 

 and on the cervix; lores mostly white, somewhat mixed, particu- 

 larly on lower portion, with fine markings of dark brown; chin 

 white, washed with buff, finely streaked, and somewhat spotted with 

 dark brown; broad gular crescent pure white; jugulum and upper 

 breast sepia, the former heavily spotted Vith tawny, the latter 

 spotted, streaked, and barred with creamy white, brownish white, 

 cream buff, and buff; remainder of inferior surface cream white, 

 barred with sepia, most thickly on lower breast, least thickly but 

 more widely on lower tail-coverts; under wing-coverts dark brown 

 like the wings, heavily barred with white, cream white, buff, and 

 ochraceous buff ; axillars cream color, barred with dark brown ; edge 

 of wing along the alula white. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet gray. 



Measurements. — Male : Total length (in flesh) , 235 mm. ; * extent 

 of wing, 565.2.^ 



Female: Total length (in flesh), 228.6-254 (average, 239.3) ;2 ex- 

 tent of wing, 558.8-590.6 (577.9). ^ 



Male:^ Wing, 192.5-211 (average, 200) mm.; tail, 105-121 (112.3) ; 

 exposed culmen, 5.9-7.0 (6.3) ; tarsus, 13-15.2 (14.3) ; middle toe, 

 14.2-15.5 (14.9). 



Female:* Wing, 185-203.5 (193.4) mm.; tail, 104-122.5 (112.8); 

 exposed culmen, 6.5-7.2 (6.9) ; tarsus, 13-14.8 (14.2) ; middle toe, 

 14.6-16 (15.3). 



Type locality. — Lipscomb, northwestern Texas. 



Geographical distribution. — Central portion of western United 

 States; south in migration through Central America, probably to 

 South America. Breeds in the Lower Austral, Upper Austral, 

 Transition, and Canadian zones, north to the Republican River, 



^ One specimen. 



^ Three specimens. 



^Ten specimens, from Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 



* Ten specimens, from Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah. 



