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mon, deepening into bright rufous ou the aluhe, primary coverts, prima- 

 ries, and tibife, and narrow!}' barred (except on the wings*) with dusky. 

 Greater and middle wing-coverts and dorsal region generally grayish- 

 dusky, inclining to black on the wing-coverts ; terminal portion (about 

 the exposed one-fourth) of the secondaries and primaries deep black. 

 Tail deep black, broadly tipped with grayish-white, and crossed about 

 the middle by a broad zone of the same ; upper tail-coverts black, tipped 

 with white. Head and neck pale cinnamon, like the lower parts, 

 the head, without transverse bars, but the feathers with dusky shaft- 

 streaks ; auriculars and cheeks tinged with cinereous. Young: — Head, 

 neck, and breast pale ochraceous (varying to white) with shaft-streaks 

 of dark brown, the breast with large longitudinal spots or patches of 

 the same. Tail dusky, transversely mottled, or narrowly and irregularly 

 barred, with dull grayish, tinged with reddish. 



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Xew Granada } Verroanx. 



Brazil (Para) j Xat. Hist, ilnsenni of Kio. 



do j Sr. Don F. Albuixuerque. 



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Argentine Republic (Corrieutes) ■ Capt. T. J. Pajre. TJ. S. IN^. 



Oiher specimens examined. — lu nius. Philad. Acad., 7 ; Am. Mns., N. Y., 2; Boston Soc 

 3 ; total, 17. 



In measurements, the sexes disfer as follows, according to identifica- 

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* WLere there are, however, sparse aud more iudistinct bars on the lesser-coveit 

 region. 



