. Birds and nature in natural colors. . inely wavy-barred dusky and white; posterior scapu-lars and tertiaries lanceolate, heavily striped, broadly with black, more narrowlywith buffy white, light brownish gray, and fuscous; rump and behind with mesialbrownish dusky and obscure wavy-barring of fuscious and whitish; central pairof tail-feathers much elongated, blackish or with metallic reflections; crissumwhite, separated from belly by dull white area and broad flank patches; wing-coverts plain brownish gray, the posterior row tipped with cinnamon-rufous;speculum dull bronzy green or faintly gl
. Birds and nature in natural colors. . inely wavy-barred dusky and white; posterior scapu-lars and tertiaries lanceolate, heavily striped, broadly with black, more narrowlywith buffy white, light brownish gray, and fuscous; rump and behind with mesialbrownish dusky and obscure wavy-barring of fuscious and whitish; central pairof tail-feathers much elongated, blackish or with metallic reflections; crissumwhite, separated from belly by dull white area and broad flank patches; wing-coverts plain brownish gray, the posterior row tipped with cinnamon-rufous;speculum dull bronzy green or faintly glossy with dusky on either side, and bor-dered behind by black and terminal white; axillars white with a little mottling oflight grayish brown; lining of wings mottled brownish gray and white; bill black,edged with grayish blue; feet and legs grayish blue; iris brown. Adult females:Obscurely colored; pale ochraceous or whitish on belly; ochraceous-buff or brown-ish buff on remaining under parts; much darker, nearly cinnamon-brown on 644. crown; head and neck finely streaked with dusky, except occasionally on upperthroat; breast variously spotted and streaked; sides with large irregular U-shapedmarkings of brownish dusky; upper parts dusky or greenish fuscous, lightly orheavily marked and striped with dull ochraceous or ochraceous-buff; wing muchduller than in male, altho pattern traceable; wing-coverts fuscous narrowly white-edged and tipped; the tips of posterior row scarcely broader, white; speculumdusky with faint purplish and greenish gloss; axillars more heavily mottled withgrayish brown. Adult male in breeding plumage: Similar to adult female, butwing as in ordinary plumage (Ridgw.). Young male: Like adult female butmore ochraceous below and more uniformly streaked; slightly transverse-barredabove, and wing early showing adult characteristics. Young female: Similarto adult, but more heavily tinged below, and more heavily streaked and stripedabove; specidum light brown dapp
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