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Head small, tail long, rounded, consisting of twelve rather broad feathers ; toes 

 slender, claws very much compressed, arched, acute, hind toe strongest ; bill rather 

 short, depressed at the base, bristles extending nearly to the tip, nostrils partially 

 concealed by feathers. Forehead and loral space black; crown and occiput 

 chesnut- brown spotted with dusky, upper plumage slate color ; wings and tail 

 brown, the latter darkest ; outer four tail-feathers spotted with white, first more 

 so, fourth least ; fourth quill a little longer than the third and fifth, which are 

 about equal ; shafts brown, throat and foreneck black, sides dusky, breast and ab- 

 domen light red ; under tail- coverts black at the base, terminating with white; 

 upper tail- coverts dark brown, tipped with slate color. Length from bill to end 

 of tail 5 inches, wings from flexure 2 7-12, tarsus 8-12, middle toe and claw 61-12, 

 hind toe strongest, bill along the ridge 4-12, gap 6-12. 



This species I have named in memory of the lamented Cassimere H. DeAam. 



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