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hind neck, and smaller wing-coverts ; they are conspicuously large 

 on the other wing-coverts, the dorsal region, scapulars, and tertials ; 

 the quills are blackish-brown with indented marks of pale reddish 

 fulvous on the outer webs of the primaries, and large roundish paler 

 spots on the inner webs ; under wing-coverts reddish fulvous, sparse- 

 ly mottled with black ; tail dark brown, of the same color as the 

 back, crossed with four bars (including the terminal one), of light 

 reddish fulvous, which do not quite reach the shaft on each web ; 

 bristles at the base of the bill black, with the basal portion of their 

 shafts whitish ; front white, superciliary streak pale fulvous ; cheeks 

 dark brown, the feathers tipped with fulvous ; upper part of throat 

 pale whitish buff, the lower part grayish-white, with a buffy tinge, 

 separated by a broad band of dark brown across the middle of the 

 throat, the feathers of which are bordered with light fulvous ; the 

 sides of the neck and the upper part and sides of the breast are dark 

 brown, like the back, the feathers ending with fulvous, the spots 

 being larger on the breast ; the feathers of the abdomen are pale 

 fulvous, conspicuously barred across their centers with dark brown ; 

 on some of the feathers the terminal edgings are of the same color; 

 the flanks are of a clear light fulvous, with bars of a lighter brown ; 

 under tail-coverts fulvous, with indistinct bars of brown ; thighs 

 clear fulvous, with nearly obsolete narrow dusky bars ; the feathers 

 of the tarsi are colored like the thighs and extend to the toes ; bill 

 clear light yellow, with the sides of the upper mandible blackish ; 

 toes dull yellowish-brown. 



Length (fresh), 8^ in. ; wing, 6f ; tail, 3| ; tarsus, \\. 

 The female differs but little from the male in plumage ; the bars 

 on the abdomen appear to be a little more strongly defined, and at the 

 base of the culmen is a small red spot. There are two females in 

 the collection, the other also having the red spot ; in one the tarsi 

 are feathered to the toes, in the other only for two-thirds their length. 

 Length of one (fresh), 8 in. ; wing, 6^ ; tail, 2| ; tarsus, i-. 

 Length of the other, 8^ ; wing, 6^- ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, i\. 

 Mr. Ridgway suggested a comparison with his S. gtiadeloupen- 

 sis, the type of which belongs to the Boston Natural History Society, 

 and by the courtesy of Dr. Brewer I have been able to make it. 



Compared with guadelonpensis, the prevailing color is dark brown, 

 instead of a rather light earthy-brown, and the spots on the inter- 

 scapular region are much larger ; it is more strikingly barred below, 

 the other having the breast more spotted ; the bars on the tail are 

 four instead of six. In the Antigua bird each feather of the breast 

 is crossed with but one bar, while those of the other are crossed 

 with two. 



