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dusky bars, appreciable only in a good light ; outer two pairs of tail-feathers 

 with broad, continuous, and perfectly distinct dark bands ; middle of throat 

 and abdomen pure white ; remaining under parts pale grayish brown more 

 or less tinged with pinkish on the jugulum and sides; under tad-cove, ts 

 whitish with very faint, confused, transverse markings ot reddish brown ; 

 similar but still fainter reddish markings on the breast and flanks; a fairly 

 well defined, whitish, superciliary stripe. Bill uniform dark horn color, 

 lightening only at the extreme base of the lower mandible where it is 

 brownish flesh-color. 



The small size, short wings, slender bill, dark under mandible, 

 and clouded breast of this form, indicate that it is most nearly 

 related to mariamv, despite the tact that its general colonng is 

 even paler and more uniform, and its dark markings are less pro- 

 nounced, than in falustris, whereas marlance is decidedly the 

 deepest colored and most boldly marked of the three. In respect 

 to the coloring of the upper parts Mr. Scott's types do not repre- 

 sent his bird at all fairly, for they are exceptional in having rather 

 'less and duller black on the crown and back than is usually found 

 in palustris. Average specimens of marlamv have more black 

 than palustris, and the dark extremes show little or no trace of 

 the usual light area on the centre of the crown, practically the 

 whole top of the head, as well as the nape, being solidly black 



The dark bars of the rump and upper tail-coverts, although 

 usually present and often conspicuous, are nearly or quite want- 

 in- in some otherwise typical specimens of manan*, but the 

 conspicuous barring of the under tail-coverts is very constant and 

 affords one of the best characters of this form. 



My specimens of griscus exhibit a good deal of individual varia- 

 tion- but with the exception of one bird, which has a lew distinct 

 blackish spots on the flanks and sides of the breast, they maintain 

 very uniformly the characters mentioned in the above diagnosis. 

 Several are even grayer and less marked than the type, and Mr. 

 Hardy's bird ( $ , Mcintosh Co., Georgia, Feb. 1, 1S93, W. W. 

 W ) actually lacks nearly all trace of the usual black areas on the 

 head and back, the uniform grayish brown of the upper parts 

 beino- diversified only by a scarcely appreciably dusky stripe on 

 each'side of the crown and a few minute, half-concealed, whitish 

 spots on the interscapulars. In the general coloring of the under 

 parts C. p. griseus bears a curiously close resemblance to the 



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