. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 206 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM occiput and nape; scapulars, interscapulars, and upper back dull hair brown to chactura drab, the feathers edged with avellaneous or vinaceous-buff, the edgings giving an ashy appearance to the scapu- lars, interscapulars, and upper back; the feathers of the lower back and rump and the upper tail coverts fuscous to dark chaetura drab very narrowly tipped with army brown; lesser upper wing coverts orange-cinnamon, the feathers with concealed median areas of grayish fuscous; median upper wing cov
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 206 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM occiput and nape; scapulars, interscapulars, and upper back dull hair brown to chactura drab, the feathers edged with avellaneous or vinaceous-buff, the edgings giving an ashy appearance to the scapu- lars, interscapulars, and upper back; the feathers of the lower back and rump and the upper tail coverts fuscous to dark chaetura drab very narrowly tipped with army brown; lesser upper wing coverts orange-cinnamon, the feathers with concealed median areas of grayish fuscous; median upper wing coverts fuscous washed with grayish and edged with pale cinnamon-orange; greater upper wing coverts fuscous, the outer (primary) coverts tipped broadly with orange-cinnamon;. Figure 15.—Heterospizias meridionalis. the inner (secondary) coverts narrowly tipped and margined with dull vinaceous-buff; primaries and outer secondaries very broadly tipped with black (in the outer primaries the black area half the length of the feather) and bright orange-cinnamon (paling to pale cinnamon- puilv internally on the outer primaries) in the proximal portion, the orange-cinnamon areas on the inner webs barred with wavy narrow, but widely spaced, blackish bands; the inner secondaries with the orange-cinnamon replaced by dull hair brown obscurely barred on both webs; tail black, tipped with white and crossed by a broad white bar, the bar somewhat nearer the tip than the base of the rectrices, and irregularly mottled with whitish in the basal black area; sides of the head light buff to pale ochraceous-buff, the feathers with hair. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for
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