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Adult Feynale. — Upper parts, barred with gray, buff, and 

 black, the latter predominating, the gray most conspicuous on 

 lower back and rump, and buff or ochraceous predominating 

 upon side of breast and flanks, the feathers of these parts having 

 central streaks of white broadening at the tip, sometimes the 

 entire tip being white. Abdomen, black, feathers tipped with 

 white; under tail-coverts, black, barred with buff, and tipped with 

 white; median tail feathers, barred with ochraceous and black; 

 remainder black, with irregular narrow lines of ochraceous, 

 chiefly on the outer webs, and tipped with ochraceous, widest on 

 outer feathers. Dimensions about the same as those of the 

 male. 



Downy Young. — General color, lemon yellow, darkest on the 

 breast, a black bar through the eye to nape; top of head and 

 neck, back, and wings, rusty, with two spots on head, and trans- 

 verse ones on wings, black; maxilla, black; mandible, pale horn 

 color; feet, yellowish. 



