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vermictilated with dusky and with a very large subterminal, irreg- 

 ularly triangular, spot or blotch of black; lesser wing-coverts sooty 

 black, minutely freckled with light brown, those along anterior edge in- 

 termixed with duU whitish; middle and greater coverts similar but 

 the blackish mainly restricted to an irregular median broad streak, the 

 lateral portions of the feathers freckled or vermiculated with pale 

 grayish brown and buffy whitish, many of these larger coverts with 

 an irregular terminal spot of duU buflfy whitish, broken by irregular 

 markings of dusky; inner secondaries ("tertials") pale grayish 

 brown or brownish gray, freckled and vermiculated with dusky, and 

 with a broad irregular median streak of black; other secondaries 

 dusky grayish brown or sooty, freckled with paler, these paler mark- 

 ings disposed in the form of indistinct transverse bands; primaries 

 and primary coverts brownish black, their outer webs spotted with 

 duU ochraceous-buff or pale tawny-rufous, these spots broken by 

 irregular markings of dusky, the terminal portion of primaries 

 (especially inner webs) dark grayish brown or dusky, mottled and 

 freckled with paler; middle pair of rectrices grayish brown or brown- 

 ish gray, freckled and vermiculated with dusky, and crossed by irreg- 

 ular (sometimes indistinct or broken) narrow bands of brownish 

 black; next pair similar but darker distally and tipped with buffy 

 or buffy whitish, sometimes much broken by dusky vermiculations; 

 three outer pairs of rectrices mostly (sometimes whoUy) uniform 

 brownish black subterminally, and very broadly tipped with white, 

 the white area about 20-25 mm. in extent (along shaft), of nearly 

 equal extent on the three rectrices, the anterior outlines running 

 nearly straight across both webs, and usually margined terminally 

 with dull ochraceous-buff; loral and auricular regions brown, nar- 

 rowly barred with black; anterior and lower portions of malar 

 region buffy white, the upper and posterior portions brownish black, 

 sparsely freckled with light brown; chin and throat sooty black, 

 freckled or irregularly and narrowly barred with pale brown; across 

 the extreme lower throat a band of buff or pinkish buff, this some- 

 times sparsely spotted with black; chest sooty blackish, freckled 

 or vermiculated with pale brown or buffy; across upper breast a 

 broken band or transverse cluster of very large irregular spots of 

 buffy whitish on a groimd of sooty black vermiculated or freckled 

 with pale brown or buffy, the lower breast similar but mostly un- 

 spotted; rest of under parts of body sooty black and pale buffy 

 brown or buffy in irregular vermiculations and marked with a greater 

 or less number of large dull buffy whitish spots, like those on upper 

 breast, the markings on the flanks disposed more in the form of 

 transverse bars ; imder tail-coverts buff or brownish buff with irregular 

 V-shaped markings of dusky; under-wing coverts barred with sooty 

 black and dull ochraceous-buff; inner webs of primaries dusky with 



