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and proximal secondaries (next to tertials) immaculate white; 
distal secondaries deep brownish gray, their inner webs and basal 
portion of outer webs white, the outer webs edged with white distally; 
primary coverts and primaries dull black or dusky (fuscous-black to 
dark cheetura drab); lateral and terminal upper tail-coverts white, 
the latter sometimes (rarely) with a few dusky spots or blotches, 
the median anterior coverts sometimes margined with white; tail 
deep brownish gray, becoming darker (sometimes nearly black) 
distally, the lateral rectrices with basal half or more white; under 
parts of body, including lower chest, axillars, and under wing-coverts, 
immaculate white, the under primary coverts sometimes more or 
less broadly tipped with brownish gray, and the carpo-metacarpal 
region with more or less of dusky spotting; bill (in life) vermilion 
red, deeper (tinged with carmine) in middle portion, the basal por- 
tion more orange-red, the tip yellowish; naked eyelids vermilion red; 
iris bright yellow; legs and feet very pale flesh color or pinkish white. 
Young.—Head and neck dull black or dusky, the pileum and cheeks 
speckled with dull fulvous, and the feathers surrounding base of bill 
whitish; upper parts grayish brown, each feather rather broadly 
margined with dull buffy or fulvous; otherwise much like adults, 
but upper tail-coverts tipped with buff, bill brownish, iris brown, 
and feet dull livid grayish. 
Downy young.—Head and neck dull light brownish gray or buffy 
gray, finely mottled with darker, and with a narrow postocular line 
of black; rest of upper parts light buffy gray, finely mottled with 
darker, and relieved by two narrow stripes of black which extend, 
parallel to each other, from the upper back to the rump; under parts 
of body immaculate white; bill dusky, the basal half of mandible 
dull orange; iris brown; legs and feet dull flesh color. 
Adult male.—Wing, 246-258 (253.4); tail, 94-103 (98.2); cul- 
men, 76.5-86 (81.1); greatest depth of bill, 13-14 (13.4); tarsus, 
53.5-58 (56.1) ;. middle toe, 37.5-41.5 (40.1).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 256-269 (260.2); tail, 99-105 (102.4); cul- 
men, 86-91 (88.6); greatest depth of bill, 13-14 (13.6); tarsus, 
53-58 (55.6); middle toe, 39-43 (40.8).¢ 
@ Five specimens from Atlantic coast, United States. 
Cul- est 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. men, | depth Tarsus, 
MALES. 
Five adult males from Atlantic coast, United States..| 253.4 98. 2 81.1 13.4 56.1 40.1 
Three adult males from Bahama Islands (H. p. prattit).| 257 103.5 85.3 14.3 57.5 43.3 
One adult male from Tampico, Tamaulipas, April 
(Epi PO cee?) ccs acncaneswoscesewerareseesy erases 258 102 91 15 61 43 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 84 
