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cealed dusky bases, but with scarcely any evidence of dusky lateral 
margins; sides of body bright orange-rufous ; thighs pale ashy; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
bright orange-buff, the coverts round the bend of the wing ashy ; quills dull ashy below, with a slight 
shade of ashy-buff along the inner webs. Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0:85, wing 4'7, tail 3:35, 
tarsus 172. 
A female specimen from Matto Gros 
browner than the male, the head being near 
brownish instead of deep black. 
The nestling is also described by 
much darker than in the adult, with the scapulars and in 
ous shaft-stripes of pale chestnut ; wing-coverts also with shaft-stripes of the same 
sh, the breast and sides pale yellowish-brown, 
tail-coverts, the latter with con 
so, described by Prof. J. A. Allen, is said to be much 
ly uniform with the back, and with the throat-markings 
Prof. Allen :—“ The half-fledged bird has the upper surface 
terscapulars obscurely tipped with blackish, 
and with conspicu 
colour. Below blotched with broad cross-bars of blacki 
the middle of the abdomen white." 
Тһе description is taken from a specimen in th 
п from a bird from S.E. Brazil in the Seebohm Collection. [R. B. 6.) 
e British Museum, and the figures on the Plate 
are draw 
