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eep brown; back and rump similar to the crown; scapulars with very 

 ipge blackish-brown velvety spots, encircled by a buff line; upper 

 ing-coverts with rounded cream-white spots; primaries deep brown, 

 anded with pale rufous; secondaries similar, but mottled on the outer 

 ebs; innermost secondaries like the scapulars; innermost pair of 

 jctrices colored like the back and rump, the other pairs deep brown, 

 distinctly barred with rufous near the base, tipped with white; lower 

 arts paler than the upper surface; a band of silky white across the 

 iroat ; feathers of the abdomen with a white tip and a dark brown 

 ne before the white tip; "iris brown. " Total length about 8.5 inches 

 =204.5 mm.], wing 5.2 [132.1 mm.], taU 4 [101.6 mm.], tarsus 0.6 

 5.24 mm.]" 



Adult female. — Prevailing color of pileum anteriorly and laterally 

 nely mottled buffy grayish, paler along the lateral margin; median 

 ortion of crown and occiput chiefly chestnut, finely mottled or sprin- 

 ted with dusky, the underlying portion of the feathers the same 

 slor as sides of crown; back finely mottled or vermiculated dark rusty 

 r chestnut and dull buffy, the former prevailing; scapulars finely 

 lottled duU grayish buffy (like sides of crown), the innermost row 

 F feathers marked with sharply defined spots of black or mixed 

 lack and chestnut, each spot surrounded by a narrow ring (more 

 r less distinct) of duU light buffy; exterior scapulars with outer 

 ebs mostly chestnut mottled with dusky, the longer scapulars 

 milarly marked, but with the chestnut patch extending over greater 

 ortion of both webs ; general color of wing-coverts dull chestnut, finely 

 lottled with dusky, but the general color relieved by a cluster of 

 uffy spots on central portion of wing-covert area; secondaries 

 Darsely banded with dusky and pale chestnut or chestnut-buffy, 

 le former prevailing basaUy, the latter more broken up terminally 

 ito a confused mottling of pale chestnut or duU buffy and grayish 

 usky, the feathers margined at tips with buffy; primary coverts 

 usky, with large spots of tawny-ochraceous on outer webs; primaries 

 anded with dusky and tawny-ochraceous, the latter wider on outer 

 ebs, where dusky bands are more broken, but narrower and deeper 

 I color on inner webs, where dusky bands are very distinct and 

 lostly " solid " dusky; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts (the 

 mger of the latter wanting however), finely mottled grayish buffy, 

 lestnut, and dusky, the prevailing color being a dull buffy brownish; 

 lil finely mottled pale chestnut, buffy, and grayish dusky, crossed 

 Y about ten indistinct lighter and darker bars, the four outer rectrices 

 m each side) tipped with dull white (becoming buffy on fourth and 

 ater web of first), this white tip broadest on second rectrix (from 

 itside), onwhichitmeasuresabout 12 mm. wide; sides of head nearly 

 aiform dull tawny-ochraceous, this deepest on lores, superciliary 



a Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 581. 



