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3 ear-coverts dull reddish-brown, the latter with obsolete pale shaft-lines ; under surface of body sandy 
TU fawn-colour, browner on the fore-neck and chest, the throat and cheeks lighter and verging to whitish 
ha з on the chin; the cheeks and throat distinctly streaked with rows of dusky brown spots; abdomen 
ER and under tail-coverts and thighs pale sandy-buff, the longer coverts with dark brown bases ; axillaries 
Ф k and under wing-coverts pale orange-buff, a shade of which also pervades the sides of the body ; quills 
М dusky brown below, light orange-buff along the inner web. Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0:9, 
ues wing 4:85, tail 4:0, tarsus 1:3. 
А Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:9, wing 4:85, tail 3:8, 
Jin tarsus 1:2. 
LET The specimens described are in winter plumage, the female being from Playa Vicente (Dec.) 
UOT and the male from Jalapa (March). In April and May the birds are evidently breeding, and 
Mr. Richardson obtained eggs in the latter month at Valles in San Luis Potosi. The ruddy tint of 
ЧТ the winter plumage is almost entirely abraded, and the colour of the upper surface becomes ashy-olive, 
iim while the under surface is remarkably paler than in winter, and the fore-neck and chest are stone- 
TN brown, with an ashy tinge, and are not nearly so dark brown as in winter. 
шік Young birds, procured in August, are rather darker brown than the adults, and have distinct 
TOWN mesial shaft-streaks of orange-buff, widening out at the end of the wing-coverts into triangular 
iin | spots. Тһе under surface of the body is orange-buff, the throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 
4 being unspotted; the fore-neck and chest rather darker than the rest of the under surface, and 
ж heavily spotted with dusky blackish, the feathers of the breast and abdomen with dusky brown ends, 
= producing a spotted appearance. 
дела The figures in Ше Plate are drawn from specimens in the Seebohm Collection—that of 7. grayi 
Бак being from Costa Rica, and that of so-called 7. casius from Panama. (Б. B. 5.1 
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