BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 401 



proper blacker — ^blackish slate ; circumocular area, auriculars, and a band 

 connecting with the breast band white; eyelids black; chin and middle 

 of throat black, the white band across the lower throat and upper breast 

 posteriorly edged with black ; middle of crown, most of occiput, and upper 

 nape bufly brown to olive-brown, a few of the coronal feathers with 

 ochraceous-orange shaft stripes; most of nape and upper interscapulars 

 deep mouse gray with large rounded spots of buffy white to buffy ; most 

 of interscapulars deep mouse gray transversely broadly spotted with black, 

 these spots sometimes coalescing into blotches basally, and with broad 

 shaft stripes of warm buff to ochraceous-tawny ; scapulars and feathers 

 of back and lower back and rump similar but with the black areas greater 

 and more coalesced, the shaft stripes greatly reduced on the back, lower 

 back and rump; inner secondaries and upper wing coverts light grayish 

 olive with a faint buffy tinge and with broad auburn to pale chestnut shaft 

 stripes and both vanes transversely marked with large but widely spaced 

 black spots; outer secondaries without brown shaft stripes, and with the 

 light grayish olive color replaced by dark hair brown to light clove brown, 

 the black transverse spots thereby rendered much less conspicuous ; inner- 

 most secondaries externally and terminally spotted with pinkish cinnamon ; 

 primaries dark clove brown to fuscous, externally spotted with pale pinkish 

 buff to pale buff; upper tail coverts light grayish olive with very broad 

 chestnut to auburn shaft stripes and with both webs spotted with black; 

 rectrices similar but with narrower shaft stripes ; breast and upper ab- 

 domen pale warm buff, the feathers terminally washed with ochraceous- 

 tawny to tawny, the extent, in area and intensity of this wash increasing 

 posteriorly until on the middle of the abdomen the feathers are wholly of 

 this color and even darker, more washed with bright chestnut; sides of 

 neck and of breast dark gull gray to slate spotted with buffy to buffy 

 white; sides of upper abdomen with the spots pale ochraceous-tawny and 

 much larger, reducing the gray to incomplete, transverse bars ; lower sides 

 and flanks with the gray still more reduced and the brown areas darker — 

 more auburn and chestnut; the lower flanks dark chestnut with the gray 

 marks largely replaced by black; middle of lower abdomen, vent, under 

 tail coverts, and thighs black; under wing coverts grayish wood brown 

 flecked with pale pinkish cinnamon ; "bill black with mandible and maxil- 

 lary rami pale blue ; tarsi and feet, light blue (close to light Delft blue) ; 

 claws, horn color; iris dark brown" (van Rossem). 



Adult female. — Very similar to that of Cyrtonyx montezumae mearnsi 

 but averaging darker above (more blackish brown transverse markings 

 on the feathers) and more ochraceous, less pinkish or vinaceous below, 

 and with the dorsal shaft stripes definitely washed with buffy; from the 

 more southern races of C. montezumae it differs in having the breast 

 paler, less vinaceous. 



