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whitish, more or less tinged with pale tawny-buffy, the feathers grayish 

 basally ; under tail black with dark russet shafts ; under wing coverts 

 slate color washed with brownish ; bill black, slightly brownish terminally ; 

 iris Vandyke brown; tarsi and toes pale sepia. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male but smaller and with a shorter 

 crest. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Top of head, nape, interscapulars, and back 

 between dark drab and hair brown, the feathers minutely speckled with 

 buffy drab, many with a terminal triangular white shaft spot; long oc- 

 cipital crest feathers dull fuscous banded on their terminal third with 

 tawny-drab; lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts similar but more 

 rufescent — pale Saccardo's umber vermiculated and transversely mottled 

 with black; upper wing coverts pale Saccardo's umber transversely ver- 

 miculated with black and each feather with a terminal shaft spot of white ; 

 innermost secondaries similar but with large black blotches; rest of sec- 

 ondaries and all the primaries dull fuscous, their outer webs heavily mot- 

 tled and washed with pale Saccardo's umber ; rectrices dusky grayish 

 Saccardo's umber barred with black, the black wavy bars distally edged 

 with pale grayish; a pale grayish line from the bill across the lores, 

 through the eye to the posterodorsal angle of the auriculars ; cheeks and 

 auriculars and sides of neck like the upper back but slightly more grayish, 

 less brownish ; the cheeks also averaging paler ; chin grayish white ; throat, 

 breast, and upper abdomen dusky hair brown with a slight slate tinge on 

 the most posterior parts, and each feather with a small white median 

 terminal spot; middle of abdomen grayish, the feathers edged and tipped 

 with white ; sides similar but with traces of dull chestnut ; flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts pale cinnamon-brown. 



Natal down. — Forehead, lores, broad supraorbital bands, sides of 

 crown and occiput, sides of nape pale bufify or tawny-buff; center of 

 crown, occiput, nape, and upperparts posteriorly to the tail deep chestnut- 

 fjrown, this color narrowly bordered with black; on either side of this 

 on the body is a whitish line followed, on the caudal half or so of the 

 body, by a second blackish one, lateral to which the bird is pale Saccardo's 

 umber transversely vermiculated with blackish and with whitish; wings 

 pale Saccardo's umber the upper coverts and remiges, just sprouting, 

 broadly tipped with pale buffy; a patch of deep chestnut brown on the 

 band of the wing; chin, throat, and underparts of body whitish with a 

 faint buffy tinge; sides, flanks, and thighs pale Saccardo's umber; bill 

 and legs pale dull brown. 



Adult male.— Wing 129-136 (131.2) ; tail 71-82 (76.5) ; culmen from 

 base 15.7-17.9 (16.9) ; tarsus 35.0-37 (36.3) ; middle toe without claw 

 29.1-32.9 (31.4 mm.).^^ 



' Eleven specimens from western Washington, Oregon, and California. 



