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48815, $, Santiago, Chile):—Above chiefly brownish-black, but this 
broken by a reddish-fulvous streaking on the head, neck, and back, and 
by a coarse irregular spotting of the same on the greater wing-coverts; 
all other feathers more or less tipped or margined with the same. Rem- 
iges dusky grayish-brown, with indistinct narrow bars of dusky. Upper 
tail-coverts immaculate white. Tail dusky grayish-brown, the extreme 
base pure white, and the tip fulvous-wliite, crossed by very numerous 
(about nineteen) narrow indistinct bars of dusky; their inner webs 
more whitish, with the bars better defined. Lower parts ochraceous, 
the throat, jugulum, breast, sides, and abdomen with longitudinally 
ovate or tear-shaped spots of brownish-black, largest on the breast. 
Tibhe marked with faint, small, and irregular bars of brown. Crissum 
immaculate white. 
Au adult from Guayaquil (No. 54935) has the blackish more continu¬ 
ous, but still conspicuously streaked with white on the throat; the tibiae 
are pale ochraceous, thickly barred with rusty; the terminal band of 
the tail is less than an inch wide, and is tinged with gray. Nos. 13907, 
female, and 13908, male, from Chile, differ in having the black much 
broken, both above and below, but chiefly ou the lower surface, with 
white spottings and streaks; the throat and cheeks white, streaked 
with dusky. These two specimens correspond quite closely with Tem- 
minck’s plate of the adult. 
3. harrisi. 
Adult with the blackish continuous and uniform. Wing, 12.35-14.50; 
tail, 9.80-11.00; culmen, 0.90-1.10; tarsus, 3.15-3.75; middle toe, 
1.65-2.00. Adult female (No. 12230, Cape !St. Lucas, Lower Califor¬ 
nia) :—Prevailing color uniform sooty-black, deepest ou the tail, the 
rump somewhat tinged with chestnut. Lesser wing-coverts, lining of 
the wing, and the tibiae plain, unbroken, rich chestnut-rufous, middle 
wing-coverts similar, the middle portion of each feather blackish; 
greater coverts of the under side with black shaft-streaks. Under sur¬ 
face of primaries (iuner webs) plain sooty-black. Upper tail-coverts and 
crissum pure white, the former with blackish shaft-streaks Tail deep 
black, the extreme base and a broad terminal baud pure white. Wing, 
14.50; tail, 10.00; tarsus, 3.25; middle toe, 2.00. [No. 42559, Iztlan, 
W. Mexico, is similar to the preceding but not so black, the dark color 
inclining to a deep dark sepia, unbroken however, and the rump chest¬ 
nut, with the feathers dusky centrally. White of upper tail-coverts 
without dusky shaft-streaks. Wing, 14.60; tail, 10.30; tarsus, 3.25; 
middle toe, 1.95.J Immature male (No. 50763, Tepic, W. Mexico):— 
Above similar to the adult but less uniform, the nape and back relieved 
by rusty-fulvous edges to the feathers, the sides of the head and neck 
more thickly streaked with the same. Lower parts ochraceous, the 
throat thickly streaked with black; the breast, sides, and abdomen 
with longitudinally ovate or tear-shaped spots of black, largest on the 
breast. Tibiae marked with narrow bars of dusky brown and rusty; 
crissum paler, relieved only by blackish shaft-streaks. Wings as in the 
adult, but the rufous more broken, and the remiges more brownish. 
Tail as in the adult, but the terminal white narrower, less purely white 
and less sharply defined, the inner webs more or less distinctly barred 
with white, blackish, and grayish brown. “ Iris chestnut-brown ; cere, 
chin, and skin round the eye yellow. 7 ’ Immature female (No. 15260, 
Fort Buchanan, New Mexico):—Similar to the preceding, but black 
beneath more prevalent, though irregularly broken by whitish edgings 
and spottings of the feathers; tibiae more distinctly barred with rusty. 
