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dull snuflf-brown vermiculated with sooty black; the anterior inter- 

 scapulars and lower sides of neck, and of the breast similar but more 

 rufesfcent-tawny snuff -brown to cinnamomeous and with the black 

 vermiculations a little more widely spaced; rest of interscapulars 

 and scapulars neutral gray heavily washed with brownish olive, the 

 interscapulars with more brownish than the scapulars, and broadly 

 barred with sooty black, each feather crossed by three or four such 

 black bands, which are not so broad as the interspaces; each black 

 band with a narrow pale margin on its proximal side, the gray inter- 

 spaces indistinctly marbled or irregularly vermiculated with deep 

 neutral gray; lesser and median upper wing coverts deep neutral 

 gray with an ashy cast, and incompletely barred with irregular bands 

 of minute wliite spots, the lesser coverts near the bend of the wing 

 considerably washed with olive-brown; a number of both the lesser 

 and the median coverts with large, somewhat oval white spots at 

 their tips; the median coverts crossed by a concealed blackish band 

 on their basal part; alula ashy deep neutral gray, largely black 

 toward the base; terminally edged with white; greater upper pri- 

 mary coverts dark olive-buff abundantly speckled, edged, and tipped 

 with chamois, the pale specks often assuming the form of incomplete, 

 transverse bars, the outermost of these coverts washed with deep 

 neutral gray terminally; the greater secondary coverts deep neutral 

 gray, the outer ones much tinged with olive-buff and abundantly 

 flecked and irregularly vermiculated with whitish; two outermost 

 primaries blackish basally, then crossed by a white band, which is 

 much mottled with neutral gray on the inner web and distally bor- 

 dered with the same on both webs ; following this is a broad blackish 

 band (30-40 mm.) containing within it a very large spot of Sanford's 

 brown (on the second primary this spot occupies most of the band) ; 

 distal to this is another wliite band (15-20 mm.) mottled with neu- 

 tral gray, then another blackish band, then a large Sanford's brown 

 spot, even larger than the more basal ; this, in turn, is distally edged 

 with a broad black band, followed by an equally broad white one with 

 the usual mottling, and finally a broad tip of deep neutral gray 

 mixed with blackish and narrowly tipped with pale grayish; the 

 third primary like the second, but with a slight olive tinge on the 

 gray just proximal to the second rufescent area; fourth and fifth 

 primaries dark olive-buff mottled with chamois to primrose yellow 

 for the basal half, then bright Sanford's brown for about 50 mm., 

 then broadly banded with black, then pale neutral gray mottled with 

 white, and tipped with dull sooty black ; sixth primary like the fifth, 

 but the inner web with a broad Sanford's brown area distally broadly 

 edged with black in the middle of the olive-buff and primrose yellow 

 basal area; remaining primaries Sanford's brown for their basal 



