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averaging narrower, and posterior under parts more heavily or dis- 

 tinctly barred, the adult male with a conspicuous superciliary spot 

 of black, the adult female with posterior half of crown mostly black 

 (instead of wholly pale gray). 



Adult male. — ^Postnasal region (frontal antise) pale dull red; fore- 

 head (broadly), loral region, and adjacent parts of orbital region, 

 dull white; a conspicuous superciliary area of black, originating 

 above anterior extremity of the naked orbital area and extending 

 backward as far as middle of auricular region (at least); crown, 

 occiput, and hindneck bright poppy red, somewhat lighter or more 

 scarlet posteriorly; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts sharply and 

 regularly barred (broadly) with black and white, the white bars 

 averaging rather narrower than the black ones, the secondaries 

 similarly barred but the black interspaces much wider and (except 

 on inner secondaries) the white bars also much wider; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white, rather distantly barred with black, the 

 bars on longer upper tail-coverts less regular, sometimes more or less 

 U- or V-shaped; primaries black, their outer webs blotched or spotted 

 with white on sub-basal portion, the inner quills tipped or terminally 

 margined with white; tail black, the inner web of middle rectrices 

 with broad oblique bars or transverse quadrate spots of white, the 

 outer web sometimes with spots, or a wedge-shaped streak, of white, 

 the outermost pair with several broad white transverse spots, or 

 interrupted bars, on distal portion; auricular region very pale buffy 

 smoke grayish, fading into dull buffy grayish white on malar region, 

 chin, and upper throat, this gradually deepening into pale smoke 

 gray on foreneck and chest, this gradually passing into a more yel- 

 lowish light smoke grayish on breast, upper abdomen, and sides; 

 lower abdomen, superficially, bright red, but beneath surface pale 

 dull yellowish and grayish, rather indistinctly barred with dusky; 

 flanks and under tail-coverts dull white, tinged with pale ocher- 

 yellow, broadly barred with black, the black bars more V-shaped on 

 under taU-coverts; bill slate-blackish; legs and feet dusky grayish 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 224r-256 (245); wing, 129-137 

 (133.3); taU, 85.5-91 (88.9); culmen, 31.5-33 (32); tarsus, 22-24 

 (22.8); outer anterior toe, 18-19.5 (19)." 



Adult fcTnale. — Similar to the adult male, but crown dull buffy 

 grayish white (like forehead) anteriorly passing, through pale smoke 

 grayish on middle portion, into black posteriorly, the black feathers 

 tipped, more or less broadly, with pale smoke gray, this black area 

 confluent laterally with the black superciliary spots; length (skins), 

 220-250 (232); wing, 123.5-132 (129.6); tail, 85.5-91 (88.1); cul- 



o Ten specimens. 



