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Wing coverts very pale buffy brown edged and tipped with whitish; iris, 

 bill, and feet as in male. 



Juvenal wafe.^-Forehfead, CTown, occiput, and nape dull fuscous, the 

 feathers narrowly tipped with pale buffy brown ; ^ lores and a narrow 

 superciliary stripe pale pinkish buff tO: light buff ; ihterscapulars and 

 scapulars dark fuscous to chaetura black' completely edged with ashy 

 cinnamon-buff and with narrow buffy shafts ; upper wing coverts similar 

 but with lateral extensions of buff from the shafts forming incomplete bars 

 of the same ; secondaries dark fuscous to clove brown barred with pale 

 ashy buff, the pale bars flecked with dusky ; primaries dusky clove brown 

 with fairly broad bars of whitish or very pale buff on the outer webs 

 and also on the basal part of the inner webs; back, lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts dull fuscous to dusky sepia, the feathers completely 

 edged with pale ashy cinnamon-buff and with paler buffy shafts and 

 median wedge-shaped markings of the same, these marks largely absent 

 on the upper tail coverts * ; rectrices dusky avellaneous crossed by many 

 broad bars of clove brown each of which is proximally bordered with 

 tawny Sayal brown, the feathers externally edged with pale ashy cinnamon- 

 buff ; sides of face largely bare ; chin and throat pale buffy to almost 

 white; auricUlars, sides of neck and malar area and lower throat pale 

 warm buff streaked with dull grayish sepia; breast dark pinkish buff 

 spotted with dull sepia; feathers of sides and flanks clove brown to dull 

 sepia completely edged with pinkish buff and with broad shaft stripes 

 of the same ; abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts pale pinkish buff 

 with a slight grayish tinge, some of the feathers, especially of the thighs 

 and ufider tail coverts faintly blotched or transversely mottled with sepia 

 to wood brown ; bill dark horn color ; iris brown ; tarsi and toes dark 

 brown. 



Juvenal female. — Like the corresponding stage of the male but with 

 no 'bare area on the sides of the head; the sides of the neck somewhat 

 more vinaceous, the auriculars less grayish, slightly more brownish; inter- 

 scapulars more vinaceous in tone. 



Natal down. — Forehead arid sides of crown pale cinnamon-buff to 

 ochraceous-buff ; center of crown and occiput dark fuscous to fuscous- 

 black, becoming washed with rufescent on the posterior occiput and nape 

 which is almost chestnut-brown; upperparts of body pale tawny-buff 

 tinged with tawny-russet and with three broad fuscous-black stripes; 

 wings with blotches of fuscous^black and rufescent ; sides of head pale 

 ochraceous-buff; a blackish spot on the auriculars ;, a light sepia malar 

 streak ; underparts pale buffy yellow tinged with tawny or pale ochraceous. 



■According to Leffingwell (Occ. Pap. Conner Mus., i, 1928, 21) the upper tail 

 coverts in juvenal males are barred "with olive buff, often running to chestnut 

 on the margins." I have seen but one young male and do not find this to hold for it. 



