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bars wider ; upper tail coverts and rectrices similar but with conspicuous 

 pale buffy shaft stripes and with brown replaced by deep smoke gray; a 

 broad band of white across the upper breast separating the black of the 

 throat from the lower breast, this white band continuous laterally with the 

 white areas of the sides of the head, and posteriorly narrowly edged with 

 black ; feathers of sides of breast and of upper abdomen and a narrow line 

 across the breast, just posterior to the black-edged white band, slate to 

 blackish slate, with two or three large white spots on each web ; median area 

 of lower breast and upper abdomen very dark, rich, blackish chestnut, be- 

 coming black on the lower abdomen, lower flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts; under wing coverts dull grayish wood brown; iris dark brown; 

 upper mandible black, becoming pale blue at the gape; lower mandible 

 pale blue; feet pale blue; claws pale brown. 



Adult female. — Forehead, center of crown, and occiput vinaceous-buff 

 to avellaneous, the feathers broadly barred with black and with pale pinkish 

 buffy shaft stripes, the dark bars becoming fewer on the occiput; nape 

 vinaceous-buff to avellaneous practically unmarked with black; scapulars, 

 interscapulars, and feathers of the upper back wood brown to Sayal brown 

 crossed by broad, dark, and by narrow, faint, fuscous to blackish bars 

 and with conspicuous pale buffy to pale pinkish buff shaft stripes; 

 secondaries avellaneous to bright pinkish wood brown barred with black, 

 each of the black bars with a wood-brown center, these bars disappearing 

 on the inner webs of the outer secondaries; primaries dull clove brown 

 with marginal spots of whitish on their outer webs; upper wing coverts 

 pinkish wood brown sparingly barred or flecked with dusky sepia; 

 feathers of back and lower back like the interscapulars but without con- 

 spicuous pale shaft stripes and with the heavy black markings more 

 coalesced into large blotches, rump and upper tail coverts and rectrices 

 pinkish wood brown transversely broadly spotted with blackish (these 

 markings not continuous across both webs) ; and with narrow pale 

 pinkish-buff shaft stripes ; lores pinkish wood brown, flecked blackish ; 

 broad supraorbital band, cheeks, and auriculars similar; circumocular 

 area and a posterior projection from it above the auriculars whitish, some 

 of the feathers with minute black tips ; chin and throat white ; sides of 

 throat and lower throat pinkish wood brown flecked with dusky; breast 

 bright vinaceous wood brown with faint pale pinkish white spots at the 

 tips of some of the feathers, which may or may not have narrow, dusky 

 shaft stripes ; abdomen similar but slightly paler, slightly more ochraceous, 

 less vinaceous ; the feathers of the middle upper part of the abdomen more 

 flecked and medially streaked with blackish ; flanks, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts similar but with few or no blackish marks; under wing coverts 

 wood brown obscurely spotted with grayish white. 



