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to hair brown), the feathers with a central V-shaped or hastate spot 

 of dusky; hindneck broadly streaked with dusky and dull white or 

 brownish white; back and scapulars broadly banded with dusky and 

 brownish white, the whitish bands more or less suffused with pale 

 buffy brown; rump and upper tail-coverts pale buff'y grayish brown 

 'or dull grayish buff, broadly barred or banded with dusky, the bars 

 narrower and less distinct on rump; inner web of middle rectrices 

 light brownish gray with broad dusky spots (more or less distinct) 

 near margin; their outer webs light brownish gray broadlj^ barred 

 with black, the grayish interspaces becoming paler and more buffy 

 exteriorly, especially toward base of tail; both webs of remaining 

 rectrices dull blackish or dusky, with broad transverse spots of dull 

 buffy white along margins, those on outer webs reaching nearly or 

 quite to the shaft; wings dull blackish, broadly barred or banded with 

 pale brownish buff'; a superciliary stripe of dull white; a narrow 

 dusky postocular stripe; lores pale dull grajdsh; suborbital, malar, 

 and auricular regions dull white, more or less streaked with dusky; 

 under parts dull white, passing into pale brownish buff'y on abdomen, 

 anal region, under tail-coverts, and flanks, the more anterior portions 

 sometimes strongly suffused with dull pale buff', especialh' laterally; 

 throat, chest, and breast marked with large roundish or transversely 

 cordate spots of grayish brown, these becoming more decidedly 

 transverse on sides of breast and passing into broad transverse bars 

 or bands of a darker hue (dusky) on sides and flanks; abdomen with 

 smaller transverse spots or bars; under tail-coverts broadly barred 

 with dusky; maxilla blackish or dusky, with paler tomia; mandible 

 dull whitish or buffy (in dried skins); legs and feet pale brownish (in 

 ^dried skins). 



Young. — " Difl'ers from the adult in having the head [/. e. the pileum] 

 uniform black, and the plumage spotted instead of barred, the back 

 being varied with large ovate spots of brownish white or ochraceous 

 brown; eyebrow and sides of face pale fulvous brown, the whole of 

 the under surface also tinged with this shade; throat dull white, un- 

 spotted; the breast and under parts barred with blackish brown, with 

 a few blackish spots on the breast."" 



Adult wfflZe.— Length (skins), 173-178 (176.3); wing, 88-90 (88.6); 

 tail, 70-80 (73.6); exposed culmen, 20; tarsus, ii7-28 (27.3); middle 

 toe, 18.* 



Adult fenicde.— Length (skins), 171-180 (175.5); wing, 85-88 (86.5); 

 tail, 74-77 (75.5); exposed culmen, 19; tarsus, 28; middle toe, 18-19 

 (18.5)." 



Southeastern portion of Mexican plateau, in States of Vera (Jruz, 



«Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1882, 200. 

 ''Three apecimens. 

 (^Two specimens. 



