BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 21 
buff (on edges of feathers); sides of crown, occiput, and nape uniform 
dull black, forming two broad stripes extending from forehead to 
nape, where they sometimes unite; immediately beneath this blackish 
stripe a superciliary stripe of immaculate dull white, extending from 
lores over eye to end of auricular region; forehead, loral, suborbital, 
and malar regions dull buffy or brownish white, narrowly streaked 
with dusky, the auricular region more brownish buffy and more 
narrowly as well as less distinctly streaked; neck (all round) dull 
brownish buffy, rather narrowly streaked with dusky or fuscous; 
chin and throat immaculate dull white or buffy white; chest pale 
drab-gray or pale smoke gray, the feathers with very narrow shaft- 
streaks of dusky and very indistinctly margined with pale buffy; 
rest of under parts immaculate white, passing into buff on under 
tail-coverts; back, scapulars, tertials, ramp, and upper tail-coverts 
deep grayish brown (fuscous), the feathers more or less broadly edged 
with buff or pinkish buff; wing-coverts pale grayish brown or 
brownish gray, rather broadly margined with buff (more or less 
deep), and with narrow shaft-streaks of black; remiges dusky 
brownish gray, the second to fifth primaries, inclusive (from out- 
side), with basal portion extensively white, the three outermost with 
inner webs wholly white subterminally, and broadly white along 
edge toward base, the next with inner web white for outer half 
(except terminally), the next with inner web wholly white, except 
terminally; middle pair of rectrices brownish gray, usually with a 
more or less distinct subterminal spot of dull whitish or dull pale 
buffy, the tip more or less dusky; other rectrices white, broadly 
tipped with dull black or brownish black and broadly barred or 
banded with brownish gray; bill black, the rictus and basal half of 
mandible horn color or greenish; eyelids and iris yellow; legs and feet 
pale horn color or olive-greenish (olive-yellow or greenish yellow - 
in life). 
Young.—Similar to adults, but upper parts somewhat mottled and 
edgings to feathers more rufescent or cinnamomeous. (Not seen.) 
Downy young.—Above light buffy grayish (light to pale drab), 
finely and rather indistinctly barred with black; a black bar (more 
or less interrupted) .across forepart of crown, and extending back- 
ward from middle of this a narrow median line of black; occiput 
with a ©-shaped median spot of black, connected by a black line 
with a bar of blackish across nape; a distinct but irregular line of 
black along each side of dorsal region, extending from upper back 
to near root of tail; flanks and wings with a few irregular blotches of 
blackish; forehead and under parts immaculate dull brownish white 
or buffy white. 
