766 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
forming a narrow wedge running along inner side, next to shaft, 
the edge of inner web of these rectrices also notched with white; a 
white orbital ring (interrupted immediately above and below eye) 
the sides of head otherwise more dusky than the general color, espe- 
cially on loral and suborbital regions; chin, throat, and chest brown, 
like upper parts; breast paler brown, with a more or less distinct 
band of white across upper portion, the brown passing gradually 
into, or at least not abruptly contrasted with, the geranium red or 
deep geranium pink of remaining under parts;* maxilla blackish, 
sometimes paler at tip; mandible yellowish brown or brownish; feet 
brownish; length (skin), 285-310 (302); wing, 136-157.5 (142.8); 
tail, 175-200 (184.5); culmen, 14.5-17 (15.9); tarsus, 14-16 (15.2); 
inner anterior toe, 13-15 (14.2).° 
Immature male—Sunilar to the adult male, but with white tail- 
markings as in adult female, the middle pair of rectrices metallic 
green, narrowly tipped, or mottled at tip, with pale buffy brown or 
cinnamon.’ 
Immature female —Similar to the adult female, but middle pair of 
rectrices narrowly tipped with buff or whitish (imstead of black), 
and proximal greater wing-coverts and secondaries (tertials) more 
or less (sometimes conspicuously) spotted with pale buff. 
Young (first plumage).—Head, neck, chest, back, and scapulars 
plain tawny-brown or raw umber, the suborbital region dusky; rump 
and upper tail-coverts lighter and more rufescent brown (nearly 
cinnamon) the feathers narrowly and indistinctly tipped with dusky; 
under parts, posterior to chest, brownish buff or clay color, barred 
or transversely spotted with brown; wing-coverts and tertials each 
with a very large roundish spot of pale buff, margined with blackish; 
primaries and rectrices as in the immature female. 
@ Sometimes the brown feathers of the breast are narrowly tipped with paler, pro- 
ducing an indistinctly barred appearance. 
b Fourteen specimens. . 
Localit Wing. | Tail. | Cub |p pans 
ocality. g. ‘ail. ‘arsus.| ante- 
men, rior toe. 
MALES. 
Eleven adult males from Mexico.........-.-.-.02-0--00---200e- 147.6 | 181.5 16.6 15.3 14.3 
Five adult males from Guatemala.................2-.2-22-e25- 141.1 | 176.4 16.3 15.3 14.1 
FEMALES, 
Ten adult females from Mexico..........-...-..--0--0--02- 222: 145.4] 186.8 15.8 15.1 14.3 
Four adult females from Guatemala..........-..-.---------++- 139 178.6 15.9 15.5 14.1 
¢ In still younger specimens the proximal greater coverts and secondaries (tertials) 
have terminal spots of buff or whitish and the upper breast partly light brownish 
(sometimes narrowly barred). 
