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102 of interscapular area with more or less of white at base; lateral rectrices sometimes narrowly tipped with white; bare skin of head pale blue (azure or campanula blue back of eyes) ; bill, tarsi, feet, and claws plumbeous; iris dark red; length (skins), 147-170 (160); wing, 76.5-81.5 (79); tail, 58-64 (60.9); culmen 20-23 (21.7); tarsus, 29-32 (31.1); middle toe, 18.5-20.5 (19.4). Immature male (= Myrmelastes lawrencii Salvin and Godman). — Similar to the adult male but entire pileum feathered (only the loral and orbital regions being naked) and greater wing-coverts wholly black.

Adult female. — Pileum and hindneck rufescent brown (nearly mummy brown), somewhat more rufescent anteriorly and laterally; back, scapulars, and rump plain deep olive, the upper tail-coverts more rufescent; tail dark warm-sepia brown; lesser wing-coverts and margin of wing deep tawny-ochraceous, the former with concealed base of feathers dusky; middle coverts black, broadly and sharply tipped with tawny-ochraceous; greater coverts bistre brown, passing into black subterminally, their tips sharply and rather broadly tawny- ochraceous; remiges russet-brown or vandyke brown, the edges of outermost primaries lighter (more russet); sides of head and neck and general color of under parts, including under wing-coverts, plain bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous-tawny, somewhat paler on abdomen and passing into olive-tawny on flanks and under tail-coverts; "naked skin of head pale blue (azure back of eye) ; bill, tarsi, feet, and claws plumbeous; iris dark red;" length (skins), 151-163 (156); wing, 71-79 (75.9); tail, 59-60.5 (59.4); culmen, 19.5-21.5 (21.1); tarsus, 28.5-30.5 (29.6); middle toe, 19-19.5 (19.1). Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but pileum and hindneck duller and less rufescent brown, middle and greater wing-coverts without ochraceous or tawny tips, and the tawny-ochraceous which