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Show 96 to five gray bands Adult:- Beneath, pearl- gray; tibiae and lining of wing rufous; crissum whitish: Youmg*-. Beneath, white or ochraceous, with lanceolate or ovate stripes of brownish- black on breast and sides. Upper parts much variegated by white spotting; no distinct nuchal collar. Bab.- Eastern South America. Certain single characters, or peculiar combinations of conspicuous characters, serve for the easy identification of the species; the following being the more prominent ones:- A. Tibiae uniform rufous. a. Size large. * Breast and belly plain pearl- gray. 1. Lining of wing whitish bicolor, adult 2. Lining of wing rufous „ pileatus, adult. ** Breast and belly spotted with white. 1. Ground- color of breast pale fawn- rufous guttata*, adult. 2i Ground- color of breast slaty or umber chilensis, adult. b. Size small. * Breast white, faintly streaked or striped salvini, ad and yng. ** Breast white, with broad sagittate spots of brown. 1. Black bands on tail and gray interspaces equal in width, erythrocnemis, young. " 2. Black bands on tail decidedly wider than gray interspaces, colors all darker ventralis, young. * Breast white, with narrow transverse bars .. erythroenemis, adult. •* Breast plain rufous, or with faint whitish bars in middle portion ..... ventralis, adult * Breast plain plumbeous nigroplumbeus, adult. B. Tibiae mixed white and rufous. a. Size large. * Breast plain gray gundtochi, adult. ** Breast spotted rufous and white cooperi, adult. b. Size small. • Cheeks rusty- white, with dusky streaks; tibiae with broad rufous spots . fuscu8) adult. ** Cheeks plain rufous, without streaks; tibiae with narrow bars of rufous . fringiUoideSj adult. C. Tibise white, with narrow bars of brown . fringilloides, young. D. Tibiae plain buff or ochraceous; breast pure white, with dusky shaft-streaks ; size small chionogaster, adult and young. E. TibiaB white or rusty, with spots or streaks of brown. a. Breast thickly striped with deep sepia- brown, the sides with broad bars of the same. * Size large gundlachi, young. *• Size small . fuscus, young. b. Breast with narrow stripes of paler brown; the sides also striped. * Size large cooperi, young. •• Size small fusous, young. c. Sides of breast with lanceolate or ovate stripes of blackish. * Above much varigated with whitish spotting.... pileatu*, young. ## Above without exposed white spotting chilensis, young. F. Lower parts immaculate white or ochraceous; a distinct nuchal collar of the same bicolor, young. |