BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 725 



is variously marked with black and light brown; a large subterminal 

 spot of white on outer webs of outermost middle and greater wing- 

 coverts; primary coverts dusky, with more or less distinct bands, or 

 transverse spots, of tawny-brown; secondaries and inner primaries 

 crossed by bands of lighter tawny-brown or cinnamon-brown, these 

 bands, like the darker interspaces, mottled or vermictdated with 

 grayish dusky, and margined by a more or less distinct line of dusky; 

 outer webs of longer primaries cinnamon-brown passing into dusky 

 next to shaft, and with large, nearly semicircular spots of light cin- 

 namon-brown which on proximal half or more of quills pass exteriorly 

 into white; tail mottled cinnamon-brown and dusky, crossed by 

 narrow bands of light cinnamon-brown or brownish cinnamon, these 

 bands sometimes irregular or broken on middle rectrices; entire face 

 (including "eyebrows") and sides of neck brown, like color of upper 

 parts, narrowly barred with dusky; no distinct, if any, darker (or 

 otherwise different) facial rim or border; under parts with ground 

 color of anterior half (approximately) pale brown coarsely but densely 

 vermiculated with dusky brown, the breast sometimes with rather 

 indistinct irregular mesial streaks of dusky; rest of under parts simi- 

 larly but less densely vermiculated on a white ground, the dark brown 

 vermiculations sometimes intermixed with irregular V-shaped bars 

 of the same color; legs light buffy brown or pale cinnamon-brown, 

 more deeply cinnamomeous on thighs, and heavily barred, or trans- 

 versely mottled, with deep to dark brown; bill pale duU yellowish 

 (in dried skins), with latero-basal portion grayish or horn color; toes 

 and lower part (unfeathered) of tarsus light brownish (in dried skins). 



Rufous phase. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head, sides of neck, and upper parts uniform 

 bright chestnut or rufous-chestnut, the crown sometimes with very 

 indistinct streaks of dusky; outer webs of exterior scapulars and out- 

 ermost middle and greater wing-coverts marked with white, as in the 

 brown phase; outer webs of longer primaries with large spots of white 

 which pass into cinnamon-rufous on inner portion, the proximal pri- 

 maries, secondaries, and primary coverts showing very indistinct 

 bands of darker, or faint indications of such bands; tail with indis- 

 tinct darker bands, these distinct only on inner web, however; chin, 

 throat, and chest cinnamon-rufous irregularly barred and vermiculated 

 with buffy or rusty whitish; rest of under parts white or rusty white, 

 profusely vermiculated with brown or russet, the vermiculations assum- 

 ing the form of irregular but well-defined bars on flanks, etc.; legs 

 pale rusty or duU rusty whitish, barred or transversely mottled 

 (mostly on outer side of tarsus) with brown or chestnut; biU, etc.,' 

 as in the brown phase. 



