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chocolate brown on the rump; upper tail coverts, black, with 

 a greenish gloss. Scapulars, yellowish brown. Joint of wing, 

 and a patch continuous with it, partly concealed by the scapu- 

 lars, white. Wing-coverts and tertials, grayish brown; sec- 

 ondaries, white tipped with gray forming the speculum. 

 Primaries, white, the tips and outer web of the first five dark 

 grayish brown. Sides and flanks, white suffused with pink 

 undulated with dark brown bars anteriorly and posteriorly, some 

 indistinct. Upper portion of flanks bordered with reddish 

 brown. Tail, grayish brown, pale on inner webs. Bill, ver- 

 milion red. Iris, reddish brown. Legs and toes, vermilion 

 red; webs, blackish. Total length, about 22 inches; wing, 10; 

 tail, 4; culmen, 2; tarsus, i^. 



Adult Female. Upper part of head, dark brown; back of 

 neck, pale grayish brown; cheeks, throat, and sides of neck, 

 grayish white. Entire under parts, brownish white, passing 

 into pure white on the under tail coverts. Upper parts, grayish 

 brown, grading into blackish brown on the rump. Scapulars, 

 grayish brown, paler than in the male. Wing coverts, pale 

 grayish brown. Secondaries, white, forming the speculum. 

 Primaries, grayish white; outer webs and tips, dark brown. 

 Upper tail coverts, pale grayish brown. Culmen, if inch; 

 wing, 10; tail, 3f ; tarsus, if. 



Downy Young. Superciliary stripe, and one through the eye 

 dividing into two posteriorly, buff. Upper parts, olive gray. 

 Spot on each shoulder, and entire under parts, buff. 



