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third or more on both webs, this followed by a broad black band, 

 then chamois to primrose yellow mottled with olive-buff, then 

 broadly neutral gray mottled with white and tipped with ashy 

 black; outer secondaries with no chestnut or black, but the outer 

 ones chamois and primrose yellow mottled with olive-buff for their 

 basal three-quarters, and terminally neutral gray mottled with white 

 and with slate-gray, the extent oi the olive-yellow area decreasing 

 rapidly from the outermost to the inner secondaries, which are 

 almost all grayish and which have two or three blackish bands on 

 their terminal third and are tipped with blackish, vary narrowly 

 edged with white ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts black narrowly 

 barred with white, the white marks very much narrower than the 

 black interspaces, the black becoming slightly ashy on the upper 

 tail coverts ; rectrices like the upper tail coverts but crossed by two 

 broad black bands, each of which contains a narrower band of bright 

 Sanford's brown in the more proximal third of the whole band; 

 chin and upper throat white; a white line from the bill along the 

 lower edge of the black lores, cheeks, and auriculars; a dusky snuff- 

 brown malar stripe vermiculated with blackish extends about as far 

 back as do the white superciliaries ; lower middle of throat pale 

 tawny snuff brown; sides of lower throat and breast tawny snuff 

 brown finely barred or vermiculated with dull fuscous-black, the 

 brown becoming paler on the lower breast and the sides ; sides, flanks, 

 under wing coverts, and axillars chamois to pale tawny-buff coarsely 

 vermiculated with olivaceous fuscous-black, thighs similar but with 

 few vermiculations and slightly paler; abdomen white becoming 

 cartridge buff on the lower portion; under tail coverts cartridge 

 buff to pale warm buff, terminally vermiculated with black; "iris 

 red ; eyelids yellow, edged brownish ; inside of mouth bright orange ; 

 extreme tip of maxilla orange-yellow, edges of commissure bright 

 orange, rest black, becoming brown at base; mandible bright orange; 

 feet and toes bright orange, front of tarsi and upper surface of 

 toes brown-orange, claws yellow." ^^ 



Juvenal. — Not known, but, judged by analogy with the nominate 

 race, the juvenal plumage is probably identical with the adult 

 stage. 



Natal down. — Not known. 



Adult maZe.— Wing 20&-240 (223.8) ; tail 145-168 (159.0) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 61-66.5 (63.9) ; tarsus 53-58 (55.3) ; middle toe without 

 claw 40-46 (43.4 mm.). ^^ 



"Deignan, Auk, liii, 1936, 188. 



" Five specimens from Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. 



