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occiput, and all margined laterally with tawny or light russet; sides 

 of pileum with a few narrow streaks of black, the hindneck with 

 broader streaks ; back coarsely vermiculated with light russet-brown 

 and dusky and with rather broad, irregular, streaks of black, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts similar but with the general color rather 

 lighter and more grayish; scapulars with middle portion light buff with 

 a few coarse and irregular bars and finer vermiculations of grayish 

 dusky, the tip irregularly spotted with black and buff, and with a 

 very large, irregular, subterminal spot or blotch of black.; wing- 

 coverts irregularly marbled, barred and vermiculated with dull 

 ochraceous-buff or cinnamon-buff and dusky, and with irregular cen- 

 tral mesial or subterminal markings of black, some of the middle 

 coverts with a terminal spot of ochraceous-buff; inner secondaries 

 ("tertials") vermiculated and marbled with deep brownish gray and 

 pale cinnamon-buff, and with irregular mesial streaks of black; 

 remaining secondaries dark sooty brown with broken spots or mot- 

 tlings of dull ochraceous-buff, disposed in transverse series ; primaries 

 darker sooty brown or dull brownish black, their outer webs with 

 large spots of dull ochraceous-buff, their terminal portion (especially 

 of inner quills) more grayish dusky mottled and vermiculated with 

 pale grayish buffy; primary coverts dull brownish black, their outer 

 webs spotted, their inner webs narrowly and irregularly barred, with 

 dull ochraceous-buff; four middle rectrices light grayish brown 

 slightly intermixed with dull grayish buffy, irregularly vermiculated 

 and marbled with dusky, and with indistinct, broken, transverse 

 bands of dull black, these more disttact on distal portion; three outer 

 rectrices (on each side) dull brownish black, irregularly barred and 

 spotted with light ochraceous-buff (especially on proximal portion) 

 and tipped with ochraceous-buff, these buffy tips about 8-10 mm. in 

 width; loral, orbital, and auricular regions dull tawny-ochraceous, 

 narrowly and indistinctly barred with dusky; malar region (except 

 anterior portion), chin, and upper throat duU brownish black, narrowly 

 barred with light buffy brown or cinnamon, the anterior portion of 

 malar region ochraceous-buff, broken by a few narrow bars of brownish 

 black and terminal spots of buffy white; a rather broad band of 

 ochraceous-buff across lower throat or upper foreneck, extending 

 laterally to the sides of neck (behind auriculars), some of the feathers 

 with a small, broadly triangular, terminal spot of black; chest dull 

 brownish black transversely spotted with pale duU buff and deeper 

 cinnamon-buff, the buffy spots broken by irregular smaU lines and 

 spots of blackish; breast similar but with a few large irregular broken 

 spots of dull buffy white; rest of under parts dull buff, the sides, 

 flanks, and abdomen "rather coarsely and irregularly barred with 

 brownish black, some of the feathers with a distinct termiaal spot of 

 pale buff or dull buffy white; under tail-coverts with a few irregular 



