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brown, the outer webs with a dull hazel streak next to the shaft; upper 

 back, lower back, and rump, light brownish olive tipped with smoke 

 gray to almost white, these tips basally bordered with black; upper tail 

 coverts slightly darker and coarsely but sparingly vermiculated with black 

 and with two small lateral white flecks on each; median rectrices olive- 

 brown crossed by 10 distally pointed broad V-shaped bands of pale bufify 

 brown to pale olive-buff, each of these bordered proximally by an irregular 

 blackish band, the broad interspaces flecked and stippled with blackish, 

 the median portion of the feathers suffused with dull hazel; lateral rec- 

 trices with their inner webs darker and more uniform clove brown, the 

 outer webs flecked and incompletely banded as in the median ones but 

 in decreasing amounts centrifugally, the median area of all the rectrices 

 somewhat suffused with hazel, which color also replaces in the lateral 

 ones the olive-brown found in the median pair; circumocular space bare, 

 subocular area and auriculars blackish, the feathers of the latter some- 

 times tinged with hazel ; a white malar stripe beginning narrowly under 

 the anterior end of the eye broadens posteriorly on the sides of the neck, 

 where it sometimes appears faintly speckled with hazel due to narrow 

 dusky tips of the color on its posterior feathers ; lower throat, breast, 

 and sides of neck pale neutral gray to deep gull gray, each feather with 

 a broad shaft stripe of hazel, the hazel paling slightly all along the margin 

 of the shaft stripe forming halationlike edge, all these feathers hair brown 

 on their concealed basal portion ; feathers of the sides similar but with the 

 hazel stripes narrower and paler, the gray portions becoming bufify brown 

 to huffy drab vermiculated and flecked with dark drab, and spotted with 

 dirty white; middle of abdomen pale drab gray to very pale light drab, 

 each feather medially suffused and mottled with grayish drab; flanks, 

 thighs, and lower abdomen olive-drab indistinctly mottled with hair brown 

 and tipped with grayish buffy white ; under tail coverts dark chaetura drab 

 to black narrowly tipped with white and crossed by a narrow but irregular 

 white band slightly distal to the middle of their length, under wing coverts 

 like the lesser upper coverts but somewhat darker, iris, circumocular bare 

 skin, bill, tarsi, and toes coral red ; claws buffy. 



Other plumages unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 163-166 (164.7); tail 157-169 (163); culmen 

 from the base 19.7-21.4 (20.5) ; tarsus 47.1-52.8 (50.7) ; middle toe 

 without claw 37.1-41.2 (39.2 mm.).« 



Adult female.— Wing 155-158 (157); tail 147-151 (149.3); culmen 

 from base 18.9-19.5 (19.3) ; tarsus 49.2-53.3 (51.4) ; middle toe without 

 claw 37.4-41.8 (39.6 mm.)." 



" Four specimens. 

 "Three specimeas^ 



