300 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



dyke brown; thighs pale avellaneous to wood brown; under wing cov- 

 erts pale smoky wood brown, edged with grayish wKitfe ; iris' hazel ; bill 

 brownish black; feet described by collectors as "bluish black," "pale 

 olive brown," "dirty greenish white," etc.! (see Miller, Bull. Arner. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist, xxi, 1905, 342). , 



Adult female. — Very different from the male: forehead, lores, crown, 

 and sides of occiput light wood brown with shaft streaks of blackish; 

 crest averaging shorter than in male and dark olive-brown usually in- 

 conspicuously spotted or incompletely barred with dull tawny; center 

 of occiput from immediately behiijd the base of the crest to the hindneck 

 like the sides of occiput but with broader dark shaft streaks ; interscapu- 

 lars dark hair brown with a grayish sufifusioii and Vermiculated with 

 bufify brown ; back, lower back, and rump similar' but with less grayish 

 and more buflfy brown ;■ scapulars and innermost secondaries and the 

 inner upper secondary coverts edged on both webs with cartridge buff 

 to light pinkish cinnamon, the median portion of the feathers Saccardo's 

 umber heavily blotched' with mtlmmy brown distally and speckled and 

 vermiculated with the same in the more proximal parts; outer upper 

 wing coverts buffy brown edged with light ochraceous-buff ; oiiter 

 secondaries dusky olive-brown with small light buffy brown f recklings 

 on the outer part of the outer webs, these paler markings forming 

 indistinct edgings and tips to the feathers ; primaries dusky olive- 

 brown, the longest primaries, in the folded wing; exceeding' the 

 longest secondaries by 15-20 mm. ; upper tail coverts like the rump but 

 slightly darker, less olivaceous; rectrices between neutral gray and deep 

 neutral gray, laterally and terminally mottled with pale hair brown to 

 pale buffy, the sides and tips of the feathers often with a buffy wash 

 over the grayish ; chin, throatt, and sides of head whitish the chin and 

 throat with small specks of hair brown the sides of the head with these 

 specks elongated into streaks and darker; auriculars much washed with 

 olive-brown, forming a da'rk area surrounded by lighter; Idwer throat, 

 breast, and lower sides of neck washed with' pale buffy brown, the 

 feathers with dark olive-brown tips ; feathers of abdomen dusky olive- 

 brown, the feathers very broadly tipped and barred with whitish, these 

 tips and bars interrupted by a dark olive-brown shaft streak causing the 

 segments of the bars to appear like large rounded spots; sides similar 

 but the shaft streaks broader and suffused with cinnamon-brown to 

 Verona brown ; lower abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts 

 similar to the upper abdomen but with the pale spots narrowed: and 

 connected longitudinally to form paje edgings to the . f eathersy the brown 

 shaft streaks correspondingly increased in width ; under wing coverts 

 buffy brown edged with grayish white. 



Immature (sexes alike) i^ — Similar to i the adult female but darker; 

 more rufescent on the top of the heady wings, and upper back, and 'tail; 



