AVES TYTODIN^E. 7 1 5 



Total length, about 13.75 inches. 



Wing, 1 1.60 inches. 



Tail, 4.90 inches. 



An adult female from the same locality, 14 March, 1897, J- B. Hatcher, 

 is similar to the male in color, but a little darker generally ; the bird is 

 larger; length 14.30; wing 12.10; tail 5.25 inches. 



Color. — Adult male cited above. 



Head : With pronounced, facial disks and without ear-tufts. Top and 

 back of head pale buffy yellow, overlaid sparingly with a grayish tint, 

 finely mottled and speckled with dusky and silvery white ; facial disk 

 pure white, with a triangular deep chestnut spot in front of the eye ; 

 feathers of the ruff defining the disk shining silvery white, the terminating 

 ones with a subterminal bar of buffy yellow and a narrow terminal margin 

 of black or blackish ; this ruff defining the facial disk begins at the base 

 of the upper mandible, reaches around back of the ear and is continu- 

 ous to the other side of the head, terminating, as it began, at the base of 

 the upper mandible ; the feathers of the disk proper stiffly filamentous, so 

 as to present a more or less hairy aspect. 



Neck : The nape of the neck like the back of the head : the sides of the 

 same buffy yellow, each feather marked near the end with a minute tri- 

 angular greyish brown spot ; the chin and throat silvery white, with an 

 obsolete wash of very faint buff and some scattered tiny greyish brown 

 spots on some of the feathers. 



Back : Interscapular region buffy yellow, brighter than on the head, the 

 feathers much more overlaid with silver-grey, mottled with dusky and 

 white, and with a definite white arrow-shaped spot on most of the feathers, 

 bounded by dark brown ; the lower back much the same, but deeper col- 

 ored and more obscured by grey, the arrow-shaped markings not definite ; 

 upper tail-coverts similar. 



Tail : The two central rectrices pale buffy white ; the others, except the 

 two outer ones on each side, pale buffy white on their exposed webs and 

 pure silver-white on the inner webs ; the two outer rectrices with a wholly 

 white ground color ; all the rectrices crossed, more or less distinctly, by 

 six dusky-brown bars only a third as wide as the intervening ground 

 color ; on most of the feathers there is also some flecking of brown in 

 minute dots and spots, more pronounced near the tips. 



Wings : Quills pale buffy, rather lighter than the prevailing shade 



