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Grayish phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above mixed brown and gray, vermiculated 

 with dusky, the feathers, at least on back, scapulars, and (usually) 

 the crown with blackish mesial streaks or spots; a more or less dis- 

 tinct broken collar of white or pale buflpy spots across lower hindneck, 

 and, often, a more or less distinct band of finely vermiculated light 

 gray, or small whitish spots, across occiput; outer webs of exterior 

 scapulars ochraceous-buflf or tawny-ochraceous externally, passing 

 into bufly white internally, next to a distinct (sometimes broad) black 

 mesial streak; outer webs of outermost middle and greater wing- 

 coverts with a large subovate terminal or subterminal spot of ochra- 

 ceous-buff (something parly white); outer webs of primaries with 

 large spots of buffy white; orbital region, at least in part, cinnamon 

 to deep brown; rest of face grayish white narrowly barred with 

 dusky; facial circle (more or less distinct) bright cinnamon or 

 rufescent brown, sparsely spotted with black, or mostly unbroken 

 black, the portion crossing throat usually cinnamon or light cinnamon- 

 rufous (never black) ; under parts white, vermiculated or irregularly 

 barred with black and with irregular or ragged black mesial streaks, 

 these varying greatly in width but always broader on each side of the 

 median line, especially on sides of breast, where (as well as sometimes 

 those farther backward) the webs on each side the black streak or spot 

 are partly cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous; legs dull white to dull pale 

 buff, deepening on thighs into cinnamon-buff or light buffy brown, 

 more or less barred with dusky; axillars and under wing-coverts plain 

 dull light brownish buffy, the coverts just inside of edge of wing more 

 or less thickly barred or spotted with dusky; bill grayish horn color 

 (in dried skins) with yellowish tip and tomia; iris deep brown; toes 

 brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Remiges and rectrices (if developed) as in adults; upper 

 parts barred (most distinctly on pUeum) with grayish white, or pale 

 grayish, and dusky, but without any longitudinal streaks; imder 

 parts dull white or grayish white, broadly barred with dusky gray or 

 grayish dusky, the bars narrower and denser anteriorly, broader 

 and farther apart posteriorly. 



Rufescent phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts cinnamon-brown 

 instead of grayish, the pileum mthout blackish streaks, except a few 

 on forehead; face (except "eyebrows" or superciUary region) whoUy 

 bright cinnamon or light cinnamon-rufous; anterior under parts 

 strongly suffused with cinnamon; otherwise like the grayish phase, 



