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Adult male. General colour above dark slaty-brown, with the head scarcely more dusky than the 
Баск; wing-coverts like the back, Ше quills dark sepia-brown ; tail-feathers blackish ; lores blackish ; 
the ear-coverts and sides of face also blackish ; cheeks and under surface of body dull ashy-brown, 
slightly paler towards the abdomen and flanks; the throat a little more dingy brown with obsolete 
blackish streaks; under tail-coverts blackish; axillaries and under wing-coverts like the breast: 
“bill red or orange ; feet orange; iris reddish-hazel; rim round the eye yellow” (L. Fraser). Total 
length 12:5 inches, culmen 1, wing 6:5, tail 5:3, tarsus 1:7. 
I do not see how a male bird from Santa Elena in Antioquia can possibly be separated from the 
bird described, which is one of Fraser's specimens from Matos, Ecuador (Sclater Coll.). The dusky 
streaks on the throat are prominent, and the measurements аге :—wing 5:95, culmen 1, tarsus 127. 
A female from Ninabamba, Peru (Jelski: Sclater Coll.), also seems to me to be identical. 
Wing 6:25 inches, culmen 11, tarsus 1:7. It is slightly more ashy-grey below, and the dusky 
streaks on the throat are obsolete. 
Young. More dusky above than the adults and with a slight olive tinge; under surface of body 
pale ashy, mottled with black bars at the ends of the feathers, before which is a whitish or pale buff 
spot or bar; the sides of the body tinged with olive (Bogotá, 8500-9500 feet). 
Mr. Seebohm says that in this species the second primary is about equal to the tenth, but 
in the British Museum series the second primary would seem to fall between the seventh and eighth 
or to be equal to the seventh. 
The description of the male has been taken from a bird from Matos in the Sclater Collection, 
that of the young being from a specimen from the environs of Bogotá in the Salvin-Godman 
Collection. I cannot find any indication on Mr. Seebohm's part as to the specimen he figured, but 
I suspect that it was one of Salmon's Antioquia birds. (В. В. S.] 
