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these pale bars edged with fuscous on the scapulars and secondaries and 

 with clove brown on the upper coverts; the scapulars and secondaries 

 broadly tipped with pale pinkish buff; median and greater upper wing 

 coverts and primaries buffy brown, the coverts banded with buffy white, 

 the primaries spotted transversely on their outer webs with pale pinkish 

 buff; rectrices clove brown paling on the lateral feathers to dark olive- 

 brown, and all narrowly tipped with pale pinkish buff; lores, chin, upper 

 throat, and sides of head cartridge buff, tinged especially on the sides of 

 the head with pale chamois ; a dark subocular band Saccardo's umber, the 

 feathers tipped with clove brown ; the lower cheeks with a mass of closely 

 packed dark clove-brown spots; feathers of the sides of neck and the 

 lower throat ochraceous-tawny (chiefly on the concealed parts of the 

 feathers) broadly tipped with white and edged with fuscous-black, the 

 ochraceous-tawny showing much more on the lower throat than on the 

 sides of the neck; pinnae composed mostly of black, abruptly truncated 

 feathers, a few of the lateral ones with various widths of buffy-white shaft 

 stripes, these pale areas edged with ochraceous-buffy and these feathers 

 with considerable ochraceous-tawny basally, their upper coverts, largely 

 ochraceous-tawny and buffy white; breast, upper abdomen, sides, and 

 flanks, whitish, each feather crossed by several fairly narrow bars of 

 buffy brown to olive-brown, these bars becoming broader and darker on 

 the sides and flanks, where they are bicolored, paler in the middle and 

 darker on the margins; middle and lower abdomen with the dark bars 

 greatly reduced in breadth and darkness or wanting; under tail coverts 

 clove brown very broadly tipped with ochraceous-tawny on their inner 

 webs ; under wing coverts whitish, the outer ones terminally spotted with 

 drab to pale buffy brown, bill dark brown ; iris brown, gular sacs, yellow 

 in the breeding season; toes yellowish, claws brownish black.^^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but averaging smaller. 



First-winter plumage. — Like the adult but with the outer two primaries 

 more pointed than the others (juvenal feathers that are retained in the 

 postjuvenal molt, all the juvenal primaries being rather pointed) . 



Juvenal. — Much more rufescent than the adult, more rufescent than 

 the juvenal of T. cupido; forehead, crown, and occiput bright ochraceous- 

 tawny, with some of the largely concealed basal blackish showing through 

 as spots, especially on the midcrown; interscapulars and scapulars bright 

 tawny-olive with no white shaft stripes and with less (narrower and 

 rowly edged with blackish, all these feathers with conspicuous white shaft 

 stripes ; feathers of back, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts bright 

 tawny-olive with not white shaft stripes and with less (narrower and 



^ As in the other members of its genus, in worn plumage the tips of the dorsal 

 feathers seem to become bleached as well as abraded and are more grayish than in 

 freshly plumaged specimens. 



