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feathers narrowly edged with blackish ; cheeks dark sepia, borders of the 

 malar stripe blackish ; auriculars like the occiput ; chin and throat fuscous 

 with the paler basal parts of the feathers dark Verona brown, showing 

 through in varying amounts ; breast like the interscapulars but somewhat 

 more rufescent and with the dark vermiculations largely absent, but with 

 many of the feathers with conspicuous black-ringed white spots on their 

 medioterminal portion ; upper and lateral parts of abdomen like the breast 

 but brighter, more rufescent, and with many more and larger black- 

 bordered white spots, some of the feathers having as many as three of these 

 spots on each web, the pale spots larger than the remainder of the feather, 

 the spots more or less washed with buffy ; sides and flanks similar but with 

 the spots slightly reduced, the intervening brownish part of the feathers 

 thereby made more extensive and conspicuous; middle of abdomen and 

 the thighs buffy white barred with dull dark sepia, the pale interspaces 

 much broader than the bars ; under tail coverts dark sepia washed, along 

 the shaft, with Saccardo's umber and indented on both webs with large, 

 marginally continuous spots of white more or less tinged with buffy ; under 

 wing coverts barred dull sepia and buffy white, the whitish areas broader 

 than the darker bars. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male on the upperparts of head and 

 body but differing below in that the chin and throat are pale buffy, longi- 

 tudinally spotted or streaked with fuscous to fuscous-black, the breast 

 relatively more spotted with white and the pale spots of most of the ab- 

 dominal feathers larger and running into each other reducing the sepia 

 parts to irregular bars with distally pointed median elongations. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Similar to. the adult female but slightly darker 

 brownish above; the breast buffy white heavily and abundantly spotted 

 with sepia transverse marks, each of which is distally edged with tawny 

 buff; abdomen, sides, and flanks whitish transversely spotted with dark 

 sepia. 



Natal down. — Forehead, lores, very broad supraorbital bands, auricu- 

 lars, and cheeks between clay color and pale tawny-olive, center of crown 

 and occiput Brussels brown, the area edged with darker; chin and throat 

 white tinged with pale cinnamon-buff; a narrow blackish line running 

 posteroventrally from the eye to the sides of the neck.^^ 



Adult male.— Wing 95.3-105.6 (99.4); tail 52.4-59.2 (55.8); culmen 

 from base 13.8-16.0 (14.6) ; tarsus 26.2-29.2 (28.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 22.7-24.1 (23.5mm.).*2 



, Adult female.— Wing 97.1-98.3 (97.5) ; tail 47.2-57.4 (51.8) ; culmen 

 from base 13.5-14.7 (14.2) ; tarsus 25.4-28.4 (27.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 21.2-22.5 (21.9 mm.)." 



" Remainder of only example seen was already in juvenal plumage. 

 " Ten specimens from Honduras. 

 "Eight specimens from Honduras. 



