770 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Immature female-—Similar to the adult female, but middle rectrices 
narrowly tipped with blackish, wing-coverts and secondaries more 
or less (according to age) spotted with pale buff or buffy whitish, 
and red of under parts replaced (at least in part) by white. 
Young male.—Head dull brownish gray, darker above, paler 
beneath, more tinged with olive-brownish posteriorly; lores and 
suborbital region blackish gray; a small spot on malar apex, a con- 
spicuous orbital ring (interrupted on middle portion of upper eyelid 
and on anterior half or more of lower lid) and broad bar crossing 
obliquely the middle portion of auricular region pure white; back and 
scapulars grayish brown (interspersed with a few metallic bronze- 
green feathers of the adult plumage); rump and upper tail-coverts 
dull cinnamon-brown, mixed with a few feathers of pure metallic 
green (of adult livery) ; middle rectrices dusky, passing into dull cinna- 
mon-brown on edges and toward tips (the latter narrowly black at 
extremity) and glossed with coppery bronze; next two pairs of rec- 
trices uniform black; two outer rectrices with outer webs pure white 
(except basally), barred with black, the inner webs chiefly black, but 
passing into pure white terminally and on edges, the white portion 
barred with black; lesser and middle wing-coverts buffy white or 
very pale buff, margined with black, producing conspicuous large 
spots; greater coverts and tertials pale grayish buffy, minutely 
freckled with dusky, and each terminated by a large spot of buffy 
white (nearly pure white on tertials); secondaries dusky, edged with 
freckled pale grayish buffy; primaries blackish dusky, edged with 
pure white; breast, belly, sides, flanks, anal region, and lower tail- 
coverts dull white or grayish white, marked with rather broad but 
more or less irregular transverse bars of grayish brown, this nearly 
uniform on sides of breast, the flanks, anal region, and crissum 
nearly immaculate whitish; bill bright yellow; feet pale brownish 
gray (in dried skin). 
Young female (nestling).—Pileum dull grayish brown (between 
hair brown and sepia) the feathers narrowly tipped with blackish; 
hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain brown 
(between bister and sepia); wing-coverts (except distal greater 
coverts) and proximal secondaries (tertials) with a very large sub- 
terminal roundish spot of pale buff margined with black, the basal 
portion of the feathers vermiculated or freckled with grayish brown 
and pale grayish buffy, the distal greater coverts and secondaries 
light buffy grayish brown finely vermiculated with dusky, the former 
rather narrowly tipped with pale buffy; alula, primary coverts, and 
primaries dull blackish slate edged with paler, the edgings broader 
@ Described from no. 109523, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Huachuca Mts., Arizona, 
Aug. 24, 1885; Lieut. H. C. Benson, U.S. A. 
