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washed with ochreous-brown, especially on the forehead; lores blackish ; sides of face slaty-black, 
with hair-like whitish shaft-lines; sides of neck slaty-grey ; cheeks and throat white, streaked with 
triangular rows of black spots as far as the fore-neck, which is slightly washed with ashy-brown ; 
under surface of body deep cinnamon-rufous, brighter on the flanks and slightly overshaded with 
brown on the chest ; centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white, the latter with concealed 
slaty-grey bases; thighs slaty-grey, edged with white; sides of lower flanks slaty-grey; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries bright cinnamon-rufous; quills ashy below, pale rufous along the inner web. 
Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0°85, wing 5-3, tail 9:9, tarsus 1:2. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but paler and with the mantle more olivaceous and the 
wing-coverts not so rufous; the under surface of the body much lighter and more of a rufous- 
brown, with very little tinge of cinnamon. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:9, wing 4:85, tail 8:75, 
tarsus 1:8. : 
The specimens figured in the Plate are a male and female from Presidio in the Seebohm 
Collection. I have described the adult male and female from Mexican specimens in the same 
Collection. (В. B. 8. 
