162 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
patch of dusky from lower part of suborbital region to end of auricular 
region, this last, however, sometimes indistinct or even obsolete; 
chin and median portion of upper throat, sometimes also lower throat 
and anterior portion of malar region, immaculate; prevailing color 
of back and scapulars black, but this much broken by broad edgings 
of brownish buff and bars or U-shaped lines of cinnamon; lesser 
wing-coverts dusky brownish gray, broadly tipped with white and 
more or less barred with pale brown or brownish buffy, especially on 
proximal coveris, the anterior lesser coverts, however, nearly plain 
dusky brownish gray; larger middle coverts, greater coverts, and 
primary coverts dusky, abruptly and rather broadly tipped with 
white, the secondaries similar but with white tips much narrower 
and less abrupt; primaries dusky, narrowly and indistinctly margined 
with white at tips; upper rump brownish gray, the feathers tipped or 
terminally margined with pale gray or grayish white; lower rump 
and upper tail-coverts pale buffy brown, irregularly marked with 
black; middle rectrices black with distal portion, abruptly, reddish 
cinnamon (sayal brown) passing into white terminally, the white tip 
separated from the cinnamon-colored portion by a curved sub- 
terminal bar of black, the cinnamomeous portion sometimes with afew 
irregular narrow markings of black; lateral pair of rectrices white, 
immaculate for the greater part of inner web and terminal third 
(more or less) of outer web, the proximal portion of outer web with 
several spots of dusky; intermediate rectrices intermediate in color 
between the middle and lateral pairs; foreneck and chest brownish 
buffy or pale vinaceous-buff, irregularly spotted and streaked with 
dusky; rest of under parts dull white, the breast more or less barred 
(irregularly) with dusky, the sides and flanks with more regular and 
much larger dusky bars; abdomen sometimes immaculate or nearly 
so superficially (always with concealed bars, however ?); under tail- 
coverts buffy, irregularly marked with black; axillars and under 
wing-coverts barred with white and grayish dusky, the bars of nearly 
equal width and more or less >-shaped, especially on axillars; bill 
brownish (in dried skins), becoming much darker terminally; legs and 
feet brownish (in dried skins). 
Young‘ Much more rufous than adults, and having the black of 
the upper parts more uniform, the lateral edges to the scapular 
feathers not so distinct; the inner greater coverts and inner second- 
aries regularly barred with black and rufous, the bars being of about 
equal width; the white tips to the wing-coverts not so distinct and 
slightly tinged with buff; the sides of the face and hind-neck much 
more rufous than in the adults, and the white upper breast also 
showing dusky circular bars; the white outer tail-feathers also 
barred with dusky brown.” @ 
a Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 629, 630. 
