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11, 1891; T. S. Palmer. Back and scapulars sepia, rather darker 
posteriorly, streaked with bufly; wings and middle tail-feathers fus- 
cous, margined with butfy and cinnamon; rest of tail brownish black, 
edged exteriorly with white; occiput, cervix, bend of wing and 
upper tail-coverts pinkish cinnamon rufous; horns, crown, lores, 
cheeks and jugular crescent black; forehead, superciliary stripe, 
auriculars, chin and throat pale 3^ellow; sides and flanks tinged with 
cinnamon and obsoletely streaked with dusky; rest of lower surface 
white. 
Adult femalein hreedmg plumage.— ^o. 139875, U.8.N.M., Biologi- 
cal Survey Collection; Coso Valley, California, May 11, 1891; A. K. 
Fisher. Similar to the adult male, but cervix pale cinnamon, streaked 
with brownish; crown and occiput fuscous, streaked with pale cinna- 
mon; bend of wing and upper tail-coverts much paler and less pink- 
ish; black of head replaced by brownish; auriculars brownish gray; 
yellow of head and throat rather paler; black jugular crescent smaller. 
AduJt male in wintei' 2)lum.age. — No. 139871, U.S.N.M., Biological 
Survey Collection; Granite Springs, California, January 13, 1891; 
A. K. Fisher, Very similar to the summer dress, but upper parts 
duller and more uniform; the cervix, bend of wing, sides of neck and 
breast, and upper tail-coverts much more pinkish, the black areas 
tipped with grayish. 
Adult female imclnter flumage. — No. 139888, U.S.N.M., Biologi- 
cal Survey Collection; Keeler, California, December 28, 1890; E. W. 
Nelson. Exceedingly similar to the summer female, but rather paler 
and more ochraceous al)ove, the bend of wing and upper tail-coverts 
darker and more vinaceous, the yellow of throat and head rather 
deeper, the breast sparingly streaked with dusky. 
Young in first 2}lwnage.—^o. 139881, U.S.N.M., Biological Survey 
Collection; Owens Valley, California, Jul}^ 20, 1891; F. Stephens. 
Above sepia, mixed with buffy ochraceous, spotted with pale buffy and 
white; wings and tail sepia, edged with buffy and ochraceous bull', the 
middle tail-feathers paler than the others; sides of head and neck 
mixed grayish, brownish and buffy; throat white, washed with sul- 
phur yellow; jugulum and upper breast pale buff', spotted with dusky; 
remainder of lower surface white, the sides faintly tinged with dull buff*. 
From actia the present subspecies may be easily distinguished by 
its very much paler color above, while its decidedly smaller size, con- 
spicuously more cinnamomeous shade of nape, upper tail-coverts and 
bend of wing render it readily separable from leucolsema. Compared 
with occidentalia it is paler, of smaller size, with the cervix, upper 
tail-coverts, and bend of wing more cinnamomeous, the upper surface 
less uniform. It is somewhat smaller than adusta and paler, particu- 
larly in winter, with the back scarcely' or not at all reddish, the demarca- 
tion line between cervix and back usually well marked. From oaxacae 
it differs in larger size, much paler colors, and less reddish back. 
