12 HOUKNS AND WORCESTER: PRELIMINARY NOTES. 



less black. Elongated auriculars tawny buff, with black spots and 

 bars, the tips being black. Sides of face tawny buff streg,ked with 

 black, lighter below. A distinct buffy • white nuchal collar formed 

 by white subterminal bars on feathers of neck, the bases of which 

 are dark buff thickly vermiculated with black. Their tips are black, 

 and a black band intervenes between the white subterminal band 

 and the buffy bases of the feathers. Feathers of back dark brown, 

 thickly vermiculated with black. Feathers of rump fulvous brown, 

 spotted with black and reddish brown toward their tips, these col- 

 ors assuming the form of irregular bands on the upper tail-coverts 

 A few of the shorter scapulars almost black with irregular bars of 

 dark rufous brown. Outer webs of longer scapulars light buff, the 

 two outermost feathers being entirely of this color. The next scap- 

 ulars have inner webs thickly vermiculated with black. The inner 

 and longest scapulars have both webs marked in this manner, their 

 inner webs being the darker. The last of the longer scapulars with 

 an irregular terminal spot of black. Lesser wing coverts nearly 

 black tipped with chocolate brown. Bases of primary coverts ful- 

 vous brown, the outer webs heavily spotted with rufous brown, the 

 inner webs less so, and a subterminal bar of black crossing entire 

 outer and half of inner web, all the feathers tipped with prominent 

 •spots of creamy white. Secpndary coverts like primary coverts 

 but the black bar and white spot confined to outer web. 



Primaries fulvous brown when held toward light, changing to 

 smoky brown when held away from light. Outer webs spotted with 

 buffy white throughout their entire length, the spots being much 

 lighter on second and third primaries. Tips of feathers mottled 

 with rufous brown. General color of secondaries same as primaries, 

 their outer webs and tips b^ng spotted with rufous brown and 

 these spots in turn being speckled with fulvous brown. Inner three 

 secondaries speckled with fulvous brown, rufous .brown and creamy 

 White, each feather with a terminal spot of fulvous. General color 

 of tail rufous brown distinctly barred with lighter rufous brown, 

 each of these bars succeeded by a narrow irregular bar of black, the 

 entire feather thickly speckled with black and each feather having 

 a small black terminal spot. Throat and fore- breast like sides of 

 face. A buffy white pectoral band continuous with nuchal collar 

 and succeeded by a second creamy white band, the feathers between 

 the two bands being brown thickly vermiculated with black and 

 creamy white. Abdomen lighter. Flanks and under tail coverts 

 ashy, slightly tinged with pinkish, some of the feathers with dark 

 black shaft stripes, others with small terminal spots of black. Un- 

 der surface of tail much like coverts, the black markings of upper 



