BIEDS OP NOETH AND MIDDLE AMBEIOA. 



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on outer webs of exterior scapulars and distal larger wing-coverts; 

 secondaries crossed by six or seven bands of lighter brown, more or 

 less mottled with darker and (some of them at least) passing into 

 white toward edge or along posterior margin; outer webs of primaries 

 with transverse, quadrate spots of lighter brown, those on distal por- 

 tion of longer quills partly white; tail crossed by narrow bands of 

 lighter brown (these becoming less distinct or more broken on basal 

 portion), these hght-brown bands more or less intermixed with white, 

 especially toward edge and on distal portion of tail; "eyebrow" 

 (supercihary region) and lores grayish white, the former with white, 

 the latter with black, shafts; postocular and auricular regions pale 

 brown, concentrically barred, more or less distinctly, with darker 

 brown; feathers immediately in front of and above eye uniform dark 

 sooty brown; facial rim or border mostly uniform dark brown, fol- 

 lowed immediately, in middle portion, by a narrow area of small 

 brown and white spots; middle of throat pale brown barred or striped 

 with dark brown, the lower portion immaculate duU white; rest of 

 under parts mixed buflf and white, the fatter in form of large, more or 

 less rounded spots on opposite webs of the feather, and broadly 

 barred with brown, the brown bars connected by a more or less broad 

 median space on each feather, those on under taU-coverts, however, 

 separated, or else connected by a very narrow shaft-streak; legs pale 

 buff, more or less thickly spotted or mottled with brown. 



Young. — Kemiges and rectrices as in adults; rest of plumage pale 

 brownish buff, broadly barred with light brown (except on head and 

 legs), the bars widest and most distinct on scapulars, which are 

 tipped with white; head (except orbital region and lores) pale brown- 

 ish buff, the feathers dark brown basaUy; legs immaculate pale buff 

 or duU buffy white. 



Adult male.— Length (skms), 425-450 (442); wing, 310-326 (320.5); 

 tail, 210-220 (215.8); cuhnen, from cere, 21-22 (21.3)." 



Adult female. — ^Length (skin), 470; wing, 328; tail, 225; cuhnen, 

 from cere, 22.5.* 



o Six specimens. 



6 One specimen (from near Pasadena). 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen 

 from 

 ceres. 



MALES. 



Six adult males otS.o. occidentalia 



One adult male ol S. o. caurina 



Two adult males ol S.o. huachucz 



FEMALES. 



One adult female otS.o. occidentalts 



Four adult females of S. o. caurina 



One adult female of S. o. huachuem 



Two adult females ol S.o. iucida 



320.5 



325 



316.5 



319 

 317 

 324 



215.8 



220 



205 



225 

 213.2 

 225 

 221 



21.3 

 23.5 

 20.7 



22.5 

 22.9 

 19.5 

 22.7 



