BIRDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA, 507 



lations coarser on scapulars, wing-coTerts, and middle rectrices); 

 pileum broadly streaked with black, the streaks much broader along 

 median line, obsolete or nearly so on extreme lateral portions; scapu- 

 lars with irregular large spots or blotches of black, these usually 

 irregularly margined, in part at least, by buff (more or less deep); 

 middle rectrices with a median series of very irregular broken spots 

 of black, which often show a tendency toward forming broken bars 

 which become less distinct, or obsolete, toward edge of each web; 

 three outer rectrices (on each side) with terminal half or more of inner 

 web white, this encroaching more or less on inner portion of outer 

 web, the remainder of these rectrices coarsely and irregularly barred 

 with black and dull tawny-ochraceous, the latter largely predomi- 

 nating on terminal half (more or less) of outer web, especially on the 

 second and third, and sometimes nearly uniform — the tawny- 

 ochraceous extending across tip of inner web and even tinging, more 

 or less strongly, the white along inner edge; wing-coverts with large, 

 irregular spots or blotches of black and with a transverse series of 

 large buff spots across middle portion; primaries and primary 

 coverts dull black, coarsely and irregularly spotted with tawny or 

 tawny-ochraceous, the spots much less distinct and more broken on 

 inner webs, which are largely imiform dusky basaUy; loral, orbital, 

 auricular, and malar regions, chin, and upper throat dull ochraceous 

 or clay color, narrowly barred with dusky; lower throat deep buff 

 to buffy white, forming a conspicuous transverse band, the anterior 

 portion rather broadly barred with black; chest and breast brown 

 (varying from grayish brown to tawny-brown), finely vermiculated or 

 stippled with dusky (the upper chest or lower foreneck more closely 

 barred), the center of the breast with several irregular large spots or 

 blotches of buff or buffy white; abdomen and flanks duU buff to dull 

 ochraceous-buff, irregularly barred with dusky and with occasional 

 more or less distinct triangular spots of the general groimd color; 

 under tail-coverts clearer buff or ochraceous-buff, irregularly, and 

 very variably, barred (more or less) with dusky; bUl brown, darker 

 terminally; iris dark brown; feet brownish; length (skins), 280-320 

 (300); wing, 206.5-225 (213.9); tail, 138.5-151 (144.1); exposed 

 culmen, 9-14.5 (12.5); tarsus, 17.5-19 (18.4); middle toe, 17-19 

 (18.4) .« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without the white 

 areas on inner webs of lateral rectrices, which are irregularly marbled 

 or mottled with black on a light tawny-ochraceous or tawny-buff 

 ground, both webs of the three outer rectrices (on each side) being 

 more or less broadly tipped with nearly inunaculate light tawny- 

 ochraceous or tawny-buff; length (skins), 260-300 (282); wing, 



"• Twelve specimens. 



