496 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



dusky and streaked with black; scapulars for the greater part pale 

 buffy gray, finely freckled or vermiculated with dusky, relieved by 

 large irregular and variously-shaped spots of black, these margined, 

 m part, with buffy white and pale ochraceous-buff, some of the feathers 

 with inner web, or portions of outer web, bright mars brown, minutely 

 vermiculated with dusky; wing-coverts brown, vermiculated with 

 dusky and streaked or otherwise marked with black, many of the 

 feathers with terminal or subterminal roundish spots, on one or both 

 webs, of buffy or buffy whitish; inner secondaries ("tertials") very 

 pale buffy grayish, or buffy grayish brown, minutely freckled and 

 vernoiculated with darker, and with a subterminal spot or streak of 

 black; other secondaries brownish black with large irregular broken 

 spots of light cinnamon-rufous on both webs; primaries and primary 

 coverts brownish black with large spots of light cinnamon-rufous or 

 dull ochraceous-buff, the terminal portion of their inner webs mostly 

 duU grayish brown; middle pair of rectrices light grayish brown 

 irregularly vermiculated and freckled with dusky and with occasional, 

 more or less distinct, blackish spots; next pair similar but more 

 coarsely vermiculated, and with about nine more or less distinct 

 (mostly imperfect) blackish bars, the last of which is very distinct 

 and precedes a buffy white terminal area about 8 mm. in extent; 

 remaining rectrices similar but with the white tip and blackish sub- 

 terminal band somewhat broader and other black bars more distinct, 

 especially on outer web; loral, auricular, and malar regions deep 

 chestnut-brown, very narrowly and indistinctly barred with dusky, 

 the lower anterior portion of the malar region spotted with buffy 

 white; chin plain cinnamon-buff or pale buffy brown; throat much 

 like auricular region, etc., but more coarsely barred; white spots of 

 lower anterior portion of malar region continued downward and 

 backward, forming two converging, more or less broken, lines, which 

 meet at middle of anterior edge of a conspicuous buffy white band 

 across lower throat or foreneck; chest tawny-brown or russet irreg- 

 ularly and narrowly barred or vermiculated with dusky; breast light 

 tawny-brown or brownish buff, narrowly barred with dusky, many 

 of the feathers with a very large roundish terminal spot of buffy 

 white or duU white; rest of under parts light duU ochraceous-buff 

 or brownish buff, narrowly and rather distantly barred with dusky, 

 the feathers of sides with large terminal spots of duU white, like those 

 of breast; under wing-coverts ochraceous-buff, irregularly barred 

 with dusky; inner webs of primaries dusky, with narrow transverse 

 broken spots, or bars, of pale dull cinnamon-rufous or cinnamon-buff; 

 bill brown, darker at tip; legs and feet brown, the toes darker ter- 

 minally; length (skin), 230; wing, 131.5; tail, 123; exposed culmen, 

 11.5; tarsus, 23; middle toe, 20." 



o One specimen. 



