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gray ; chin and upper throat light buff ; lores, cheeks, and sides of throat 

 pale ochraceous-buff with a grayish wash; auriculars tinged with wood 

 brown; lower throat with a grayish wash; feathers of breast and sides 

 of breast gull gray, each feather narrowly tipped with fuscous and with a 

 lanceolate shaft marking of wood brown, ending in a point some distance 

 short of the terminal border of fuscous ; feathers of abdomen white, more 

 or less tinged with pinkish buff on the middle of the abdomen, and each 

 feather sharply banded and tipped with narrow, but widely spaced, bands 

 of mummy brown to fuscous; feathers of sides and flanks between drab 

 and hair brown with long terminal tear-shaped shaft markings of white; 

 thighs white, more or less tinged with huffy; under tail coverts similar 

 but with pale buffy brown centers and terminally converging V-shaped 

 marks of the same; under wing coverts grayish white with hair-brown 

 centers ; iris brown ; bill blackish ; feet ashy gray. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Forehead, lores, sides of head light buff; center 

 of crown and occiput wood brown, the crest averaging paler — avellaneous ; 

 the feathers sometimes with white terminal shaft stripes ; nape and inter- 

 scapulars drab with white shaft streaks; scapulars, upper wing coverts, 

 and upper back pinkish cinnamon to pale tawny-olive, each feather with 

 a shaft streak of white and crossed by four or five fuscous bands, the 

 bands about as broad as the interspaces; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts grayish drab mottled obscurely with darker, and many of the 

 feathers with small white medioterminal spots ; secondaries like the scapu- 

 lars but with their inner webs largely dusky hair brown ; primaries dusky 

 hair brown, their outer webs mottled with pale tawny-olive to buffy; 

 median rectrices drab to hair brown with many cross bars of chaetura 

 drab and with some whitish in the interspaces ; lateral rectrices similar 

 but with their inner webs more uniformly hair brown, less barred; chin 

 and upper throat white; breast pale wood brown to pale tawny-olive 

 with white shaft streaks ; lower breast feathers with the dark areas paler ; 

 abdomen, sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts similar but still paler, 

 the dark bars almost disappearing, and without the white shaft streak. 



Natal down. — Forehead, front half of crown, in front of a little gray 

 topknot, and the sides of the head cinnamon-buff to pinkish buff ; a broad 

 band of chestnut from the middle of the crown, back of the topknot, down 

 to the hindneck, bordered narrowly with black and with broad stripes of 

 buffy white; auricular spots dark chestnut; chin and throat buffy white; 

 rest of underparts pale grayish buff; back mottled with pale buff and 

 russet.^" 



Adult male.— Wing 116-121 (118.8) ; tail 80-90 (83.7) ; culmen from 

 base 16.1-17.7 (16.7) ; tarsus 31-35 (33) ; middle toe without claw 27-28 

 (27.4 mm.)." 



°° None seen ; description ^r Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 54. 

 " Ten specimens from Texas. 



