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versely spotted with black; middle and greater coverts paler (russet- 

 buflP or buffy russet), vermiculated with dusky and with irregular 

 spots, variable in size, of black, some of the middle coverts with an 

 irregular terminal spot of buffy, some of the greater coverts with a 

 large termiaal spot of ochraceous-buff; inner secondaries ("tertials") 

 buffy or pale russet-buff, vermiculated with dusky, irregularly streaked 

 mesially with black, and with a termiaal spot of buffy white to light 

 oChraceous-buff ; other secondaries dark grayish brown, marbled dis- 

 taUy with light russet and with irregular marblings of the same, dis- 

 posed in about three transverse series, on remaining portion; prima- 

 ries brownish' black fading iato dusky grayish brown terminally, their 

 outer webs with large irregular spots of tawny, the more grayish 

 exposed terminal portion of inner webs with narrow irregular mar- 

 blings of duUer tawny or light russet; primary coverts dark grayish 

 brown or sooty, spotted with light russet or dull tawny; middle pair 

 of rectrices light grayish brown irregularly vermiculated or finely 

 marbled with dusky and with a median series of alternating very 

 irregular blotches of black and pale russet or cianamon-buff; next 

 pair mostly dull blackish, with large, irregular, much broken spots 

 of pale russet and cinnamon-buff, these disposed as indications of 

 transverse bands; third pair still darker, through greater predom- 

 inance of the dull blackish color and restriction of the pale russet 

 marldngs, and with an irregular terminal spot of cinnamon-buff; 

 fourth and fifth pairs similar but with the pale russet or russet-buff 

 spots better defined (less broken), especially on outer web, and broadly 

 tipped (for about 10-12 mm.) with plain ochraceous-buff; loral and 

 suborbital regions bright russet or light chestnut, indistinctly flecked 

 with dusky, the auricular region similar but rather lighter (especially 

 on terminal and lower portions) and very indistinctly streaked; a 

 large patch of sooty black covering posterior half of malar region (this 

 slightly broken by a few small flecks of light russet), the anterior por- 

 tion of the malar region mostly buff or pale ochraceous-buff; chin 

 and throat rather broadly and sharply barred with black and tawny- 

 ochraceous; across the foreneck a band of buff immediately succeeded 

 by a broader one of ochraceous-buff or light tawny-ochraceous, the 

 feathers more or less broadly tipped with black; chest ochraceous- 

 buff or light tawny-ochraceous, narrowly barred with black, the 

 feathers of lower portion with a very large terminal spot of paler 

 ochraceous-buff to buffy-white margined with black; breast rather 

 broadly barred with black and tawny or tawny-ochraceous; sides, 

 flanks, and abdomen buff irregularly barred with blackish and nearly 

 covered (superficially) by very large spots of pale buff; under tail- 

 coverts buff with a few narrow irregular bars of dusky grayish; under 

 wiag-coverts duU ochraceous-buff or clay color, those toward edge of 

 wing broadly barred with dusky; inner webs of primaries dusky, 

 with irregular, mostly broken, narrow bars of* pale russet, except on 



