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the throat is a triangnUir blackish-brown patch, speckled with rufous ; 

 sides of the head brown, freckled with minute rufous spots ; feathers of 

 the breast and abdomen ochraceous white, more or less tinged with 

 rufous, and having their centres dark brown, and their sides and ends 

 barred and mottled with the same color ; the exposed ends of the feathers 

 being but little mottled give quite a light appearance to the under 

 plumage ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts dull pale 

 rufous, the feathers of the latter with dark markings along their shafts; 

 sides under the wings dull rufous narrowly barred with dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts brown mottled with rufous ; tarsi clothed in front 

 with rufous brown feathers ; the bill is light brown, black at the point, 

 and having very strong bristles, some of which are nearly two inches in 

 length, and furnished with lateral filaments ; feet brown. Length about 

 111 inches ; wing ^i ; tail 5 J ; tarsus i. 



The female does not differ mncli in appecarance from the 

 male, except in having the white ends of the three outer tail 

 feathers raucli less in extent and more tinged with ochraceous; 

 in size it is rather smaller. 



A nestling is of a rather bright rufous color, variegated with 

 black, and having the throat paler. 



Remarks. — This bird which heretofore has been mistaken 

 for A. vociferus., differs materially from that species, more par- 

 ticularly in size, and in the form and white markings of the 

 tail, the feathers of which are very broad, and the white occu- 

 pying about an inch at the end, wdiereas in vociferus it extends 

 for half their length ; the colors are lighter and more ruibus in 

 vociferus. 



t Both specimens being mounted, I cannot give the length 

 exactly, but it appears to be little if any smaller than caroli- 

 nensis, the head being quite as large and the tail more full, but 

 the wings are a little shorter; the white on the tail of caroli- 

 nensis is restricted to the inner webs. 



This new species is very much like A. nuttallii, in the shape 

 of the tail, and in the even manner in which the white crosses 

 the ends of the outer feathers. 



