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into the dark interscapulars ; upper tail coverts blackish washed or edged 

 with dark warm sepia and with a faint greenish gloss ; rectrices variable, 

 in some specimens all are uniform blackish with a greenish gloss ; m 

 others the median pair are heavily vermiculated with dull orange-chestnut ; 

 in still others the outer webs of all the tail feathers have incomplete, 

 narrow, irregular, white bars and whitish tips ; lower breast and sides 

 tawny-russet paling into light ochraceous-tawny to light ochraceous-buff 

 on the adbomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts ; under wing coverts 

 chestnut vermiculated with blackish ; bill yellowish, darker and somewhat 

 olive-brown basally; tarsi and toes dull "pinkish gray." 



2. Red phase: Similar to the dark phase but with the lower throat, 

 entire breast, the scapulars, interscapulars, entire back, rump, upper wing 

 coverts, and remiges bright orange-chestnut to Sanford's brown, the 

 inner secondaries obscurely and incompletely barred with blackish, and 

 the rectrices broadly barred black chestnut and cinnamon-buff, the chest- 

 nut usually confined to the median two pairs and edged with black, not 

 coming directly into contact with the buff bars, of which there are seven 

 or eight, including the terminal one. 



3. Barred-backed phase: Feathers of head and neck white with small 

 black tips, the whole area definitely much whiter than in the two phases 

 described above ; the crest mostly white instead of black barred with white ; 

 the black tips practically absent in the feathers of the chin and upper 

 throat; lower throat, upper breast, posterior part of hindneck, and inter- 

 scapulars broadly barred with black and white, the bars about equal in 

 width (8 mm.) in one specimen, the black ones wider than the white 

 ones in several others; scapulars, upper wing coverts, and secondaries 

 very conspicuously banded with broad bars of pinkish buff to cinnamon- 

 buff, the dark (wider) bars dull deep chestnut edged with black or, in 

 some birds, and especially on the interscapulars, almost solid black; 

 primaries pinkish buff to cinnamon-buff, terminally suffused with pinkish 

 cinnamon and banded with orange-cinnamon to mikado brown, these 

 dark bands more widely spaced (narrower than the pale interspaces) and 

 more developed on the inner than the outer webs; on the innermost 

 primaries the dark bands have some blackish margins; back and rump 

 pale cinnamon-buff barred with black-edged chestnut bands; upper tail 

 coverts and median rectrices like the scapulars and secondaries, the outer 

 rectrices becoming blacker and the pale bars narrower, sometimes almost 

 disappearing in the outermost pair ; underparts of body paler than in the 

 other phases — the lower breast and sides pale ochraceous-buff, abdomen, 

 flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts as in other phases; under wing 

 coverts ochraceous-buff speckled with dull chestnut.^^ 



" This plumage is very different from anything else seen in this species ; the only 

 character elsewhere exhibited that approaches it is in the tail of the rufous phase. I 



