BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 403 
less broken by dusky streaks) of pale dull buffy and bordered laterally 
by a broad superciliary stripe of pale dull buffy, narrowly streaked 
with dusky; a broad dusky loral stripe, extending from above rictus 
to anterior angle of eye, and a less distinct postocular streak of dusky; 
nape pale dull buffy passing into light grayish brown on lower hind- 
neck, streaked with dusky, the streaks broader and less dark toward 
back; scapulars, interscapulars, lower back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts deep grayish brown, the feathers tipped (at least laterally) and 
spotted along edges (not sharply) with paler grayish brown and dull 
grayish buffy, the latter more evident on upper tail-coverts and lower 
rump, where sometimes forming more or less distinct bars; wing- 
coverts and secondaries similar to scapulars and interscapulars but 
(except anterior lesser coverts) paler grayish brown with distinct 
shaft-streaks of dusky and, where unworn, more distinctly margined 
terminally with pale grayish buffy; primary coverts and primaries 
dusky, the four innermost primaries spotted on outer webs (nearly 
if not quite to shafts) with pale grayish buffy (this sometimes mottled 
with grayish brown); shaft of outermost primary white, that of the 
next nearly white, the others light grayish brown; tail grayish brown 
(light hair brown or grayish drab) barred with dusky (the dusky bars 
considerably narrower than the grayish brown interspaces), the rec- 
trices narrowly and indistinctly margined at tips with pale grayish 
buffy or dull buffy whitish; chin and upper throat (sometimes whole 
throat) immaculate dull white or buffy white; rest of under parts, 
together with sides of head (beneath eyes) and sides of neck, pale 
dull buff, the lower breast, abdomen, anal region, and antero-median 
under tail-coverts immaculate, the sides of head and neck, foreneck, 
chest, and upper: breast slightly tinged with brownish and streaked 
with deep grayish brown, the sides and outer flanks strongly tinged 
or suffused with pale cinnamon or vinaceous-buff and barred or trans- 
versely spotted with grayish brown, the lateral and posterior under 
tail-coverts similarly but less heavily and more irregularly marked; 
axillars vinaceous-buff, obliquely barred (rather broadly) with gray- 
ish brown; under wing-coverts vinaceous-buff with irregular V- 
shaped spots or bars of grayish brown; inner webs of primaries gray- 
ish brown, deeply serrated or serrately barred with light vinaceous- 
buff; bill blackish, the basal portion of mandible pale brownish (more. 
or less flesh colored or lilaceous in life); iris dark brown; legs and feet 
dusky (grayish in life). 
Adult male.—Wing, 231-257 (239.1); tail, 88-101 (92.9); exposed 
culmen, 77-93.5 (83.1); tarsus, 52-61 (55.7); middle toe, 33-36.5 
(35).¢ 
a Thirteen specimens. 
