BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



821 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above brown (nearest bister) thickly spotted 

 with white or dull white, the spots larger and of subrounded form on 

 outer webs of primaries; tail crossed by about five bands of dull 

 white (those near base of tail more cinnamomeous), varying in relative 

 width; "eyebrow" (superciliary region) and lores dull white, the 

 latter more or less tinged with brown and with black shafts; sub- 

 orbital and auricular regions streaked with brown and pale brownish 

 buffy or dull brownish white, the latter usually predominating; malar 

 region, chin, and upper throat immaculate white, this extending 

 upward behind auricular region; lower throat broadly barred with 

 pale brownish buff or duU buffy white and deep brown; immediately 

 beneath this barred throat-band a patch of immaculate white on 

 foreneck; rest of under parts duU white, passing into pale buff on 

 thighs, immaculate along median line (narrowly), but broadly barred 

 elsewhere (except on under tail-coverts) with brown, the sides of 

 breast and chest brown, broken by large spots of white; longer under 

 tail-coverts usually with a more or less distinct subterminal spot of 

 light brown; axillars and under wing-coverts light buff, the latter 

 more or less spotted with brown, at least toward edge of wing; biU 

 dull grayish yellow or light yellowish gray (in dried skins) ; iris clear 

 lemon yellow; toes and naked portion of tarsi dull grayish brown (in 

 dried skins). 



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

 parts mostly plain brown, or much less spotted than in adults; under 

 parts pale brownish buff or dull buffy white, the breast broadly but 

 indistinctly barred with sooty brown, the lower throat crossed by a 

 broad band of sooty brown (the feathers tipped with that color). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 195-230 (216); wing, 154.5-170 

 (164.2); taU, 73-80.5 (76.4); culmen, from cere, 14.5-15.5 (14.9); 

 tarsus, 42-46.5 (44.1); middle toe, 18.5-21.5 (20.6)." 



Adult femaZe.— Length, (skins), 191-235 (216); wing, 156-169 

 (163.9); taU, 70-78.5 (75.6); culmen, from cere, 14-15.5 (14.8); tar- 

 41-45.5 (43); middle toe, 19.5-22 (20.8).« 



sus, 



" Ten specimens, from Florida. 



