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portion of outermost quill but crossing the fourth opposite tip of the 

 fifth; middle pair of rectrices pale gray irregularly mottled and ver- 

 miculated with darker gray and dusky and with irregular transverse 

 broken spots along shaft, these sometimes developed into indistinct 

 bars or "herringbone" pattern; second pair with inner web white 

 broadly tipped with dull brownish black, sometimes crossed by a 

 narrow band of the same anterior to middle portion, the outer web 

 mostly plain brownish black, except toward shaft; third pair white 

 broadly tipped with dark sooty brown or dull brownish black, the 

 outer web broadly edged with the same, except basally, this also 

 sometimes crossed (on both webs) by a band of black anterior to the 

 middle; fourth pair similar but less broadly tipped with blackish; 

 fifth (outer) pair white with a more or less broad (sometimes nearly 

 obsolete) oblique or A-shaped band of black across middle portion; 

 sides of forehead and thence backward to above eyes duU white, form- 

 ing a distinct supraloral stripe; lores and orbital region dull light 

 ochraceous-buff, narrowly and indistinctly barred or vermiculated 

 with dusky ; auricular region dull pale buffy, narrowly and indistinctly 

 streaked with darker ; posterior portion of malar region ochraceous-buff 

 with triangular or V-shaped spots of black; anterior portion of malar 

 region, chin, and throat, immaculate white, passing into pale buff on 

 foreneck, where some of the feathers are narrowly tipped with black- 

 ish; chest and breast buff, the former irregularly and narrowly barred 

 with blackish, many of the feathers mostly pale buff or buffy white; 

 sides, flanks, and abdomen immaculate white, passing into pale buff 

 on under tail-coverts; axillars and innermost under wing-coverts 

 immaculate white, the other coverts spotted with ochraceous-buff 

 and grayish dusky; biU dark brownish, blackish termiaaUy; legs 

 and feet deep brownish (in dried skins) ; length (skins), 205-220 (212) ; 

 wing, 132-137.5 (134.5); tail, 102-124 (113.8); exposed cuhnen, 12-14 

 (12.8); tarsus, 14.5-15 (14.8); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).» 



Adult female. — ^Very different in coloration from the adult male. 

 Upper parts much as in adult male, but general color darker, with the 

 vermiculations coarser, black markings rather larger, buff markings 

 deeper, and collar across hindneck tawny instead of ochraceous-buff, 

 as well as less distinctly defined; band across middle portion of pri- 

 maries ochraceous-buff instead of white, much narrower, interrupted 

 at shafts, the inner primaries spotted with ochraceous-buff and the 

 outer ones with a subbasal series of ochraceous-buff spots; four outer 

 rectrices (on each side) broadly barred or banded, on both webs, with 

 dark sooty brown or brownish black and light brownish gray mixed 

 with ochraceous-buff and coarsely vermiculated or marbled with 

 dusky; under parts deep buff, immaculate on abdomen, nearly so on 

 chin and throat, elsewhere barred or transversely spotted with 



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