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ng anteriorly, beneath eye, to lores, where confluent with the duller 

 white of nasal tufts, its posterior end involving sides of neck, includ- 

 ing post-auricular region, except upper portion; malar region grayish, 

 intermixed with black, anteriorly (sometimes whoUy black except 

 Bxtreme anterior portion), posteriorly continued as a gradually 

 widening "solid" black stripe which curves upward behind the white 

 cervical area and connects with the black of back; under parts plain 

 pale brownish gray or dull grayish white, more whitish on chin and 

 throat, the under tail-coverts usually barred or flecked with black; 

 under wing-coverts mostly immaculate dull white, but with a black 

 patch on carpo-metacarpal region; inner webs of remiges dull slaty 

 with large semiquatrate spots of white, except on distal portion of 

 longer primaries; biU dark horn grayish, paler on mandible; iris 

 brown or reddish brown; legs and feet dusky (olive-grayish in life); 

 length (skms), 139-155 (145.7); wmg, 86-91 (88.6); tail, 48-53 

 (50.5); exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.7); tarsus, 15-16.5 (15.9); outer 

 anterior toe, 9.5-11 (10.5).'* 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red on 

 head, the red nuchal band replaced by a white one, this usually 

 divided by a median black area; length (skins), 139-153 (144); wing, 

 86.5-91 (88.7); tail, 48-54.5 (51.6); exposed culmen, 14-16.5 (15.2); 

 tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.3); outer anterior toe, 9.5-11 (10.1).* 



" Fourteen specimene (ten from Florida, foiir from southern Georgia). 



i Thirteen specimens (ten from Florida, three from southern Georgia). 



The extreme difficulty of satisfactorily separating this species into two or more 

 suhspecies and defining their respective ranges with even approximate accuracy is 

 quite as great as in the case of D. mllosus (see p. 203), the two cases being exactly 

 parallel, as the following measurements will.show: 



