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both webs are abundantly marked; the scapulars with a fairly large 

 terminal pinkish buff mark on the inner web ; the secondaries with a smaller 

 and median terminal spot of the same; primaries clove brown, the inner 

 webs uniform, the outer ones barred with pale pinkish buff to pale 

 ochraceous-salmon ; upper back just posterior to the interscapulars dark 

 fuscous-black edged and barred with narrow lines of auburn, the bars 

 widely spaced ; back and lower back pale huffy brown with a slight olive 

 tinge, each feather with several small black subterminal flecks ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts similar but darker — cinnamon-brown on the 

 rump and darkening posteriorly to dark cinnamon-brown, the feathers of 

 the rump and the upper tail coverts finely vermiculated with blackish, 

 the black flecks extended laterally to form somewhat heavier wavy bars 

 each of which is edged distally with a wider one of pale cinnamon-brown ; 

 rectrices clove brown to dark mummy brown crossed by widely spaced 

 narrow bars pale cinnamon-brown; lores and circumocular area bare, 

 crimson in life; an indefinite band from the forehead over the eye to 

 the upper side of the auriculars dark auburn; cheeks and auriculars 

 brighter auburn; chin and line of the gape narrowly paler auburn; 

 throat, breast, and sides cinnamon-brown, slightly washed with olivaceous 

 anteriorly, the feathers of the throat slightly duskier subterminally ; those 

 of the breast and sides subterminally narrowly banded with one or two 

 bands of blackish, the more posterior feathers with these bands heavier 

 and distally edged with pale cinnamon-brown to almost whitish; flanks 

 like the sides but more heavily and coarsely marked with black and pale 

 subterminally; middle of abdomen dull buffy brown with indistinct dusky 

 cross bars, darkening posteriorly to almost olive-brown ; thighs dark olive- 

 brown indistinctly barred with cinnamon-brown under tail coverts olive- 

 cinnamon-brown barred with blackish and pale cinnamon-brown; greater 

 under wing coverts plain clove brown ; lesser ones darker, barred sparingly 

 with cinnamon-brown ; iris dusky brown ; bill very dark, darker than iris ; 

 tarsi and toes plumbeous. 



Adult female. — Like the male, but with the "mantle," i.e., the inter- 

 scapulars, somewhat more olivaceous, less precisely and sharply vermicu- 

 lated with blackish and pale gray. 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 141.0-153.5 (145.9) ; tail 67.0-71.0 (69.1) ; culmen 

 from base 19.7-21.4 (20.4) ; tarsus 43.5^8.0 (45.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 34.1-38.7 (35.8 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 136.5-144.5 (139.3); tail 59.5-65.0 (63.5); 

 culmen from base 18.7-19.6 (19.1); tarsus 43.4-46.1 (44.3); middle 

 toe without claw 33.2-36.0 (34.6 mm.).s8 



' Eight specimens from Costa Rica and western Panama. 

 ' Five specimens from Costa Rica. 



