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Show 140 mon, deepening into bright rufous on the alulae, primary coverts, primaries, and tibiae, and narrowly barred ( except on the wings*) with dusky. Greater and middle wing- coverts and dorsal region generally grayish-dusky, inclining to black on the wing- coverts; terminal portion ( about the exposed one- fourth) of the secondaries and primaries deep black. Tail deep black, broadly tipped with grayish- white, and crossed about the middle by a broad zone of the same; upper tail- coverts black, tipped with white. Head and neck pale cinnamon, like the lower parts, the head without transverse bars, but the feathers with dusky shaft-streaks ; auriculars and cheeks tinged with cinereous. Young:- Head, nec] f, and breast pale ochraceous ( varying to white) with shaft- streaks of dark brown, the breast with large longitudinal spots or patches of the same. Tail dusky, transversely mottled, or narrowly and irregularly barred, with dull grayish, tinged with reddish. List of specimens in United States Xational Museum. i © I 32968 36666 50930 50931 59006 Locality. From whom received. S. 9 * d. I New Granada Yerreaux. S. - ad. | Brazil ( Para) ! Nat. Hint. Museum of Rio. S. - ad. I do , Sr. Don F. Albuquerque. S. - a d do I Do. S. - ad. Argentine Republic ( Corrientes) I Capt. T. J. Page, XJ. S. N. Other specimens examined.- In nuis. Philad. Acad., 7; Am. Mus., X. Y., 2; Boston Soc 3; total, 17. In measurements, the sexes differ as fallows, according to identifications of sex on labels:- Sex. J 9 Wing. 15.10- 15.16 17.25- 1*. 00 Tail. 8.00- ?. 30 9.50- 11. 00 a c 5 1.00 1.00- 1.10 X s < fi h. et H 3.80- 4.95 4.35- 4.50 i Middle 1.65 1.80- 1.85 I8 6 3 • VVLere there are, however, sparse and more indistinct bars on the lesser- coveit region. |
