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210 rather broadly streaked with light yellowish buff or buff-yellow ; chin and upper throat immaculate yellowish buff or buff-yellow; rest of under parts light raw-umber brown (darker on lower throat and upper chest, passing posteriorly into a more tawny-olive hue on flanks and a more rufescent hue on under tail-coverts), narrowly streaked with pale yellowish buff, these streaks broader on chest and lower throat, sometimes obsolete on flanks and under tail-coverts; under wing- coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; bill dusky horn color, the gonys (broadly) whitish or pale yellowish horn color (in dried skins); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).

Young. — Upper parts essentially as in adults but color of pileum and hindneck more dusky, the latter with streaks rufescent instead of buffy yellowish; a more or less distinct narrow superciliary stripe of tawny; malar region (except anterior portion), sides of neck, chin, throat, and chest, tawny-ochraceous, tawny, or rufous-tawny (deepest on chest, paler on chin), the feathers with narrow and indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; rest of under parts similar medially in color to throat and chest but paler and duller, passing into a more olive hue on sides and flanks, the under tail-coverts more rufescent; under wing-coverts tawny or tawny-ochraceous, the inner webs of remiges broadly edged with ochraceous-buff; bill, etc., as in adults, or with mandible wholly dusky.

Adult male. — Length (skins), 178-195 (186); wing, 89-94 (91.9); tan, 78-86 (82.5); culmen, 18.5-20 (19.3); tarsus, 22-24 (22.9); middle toe, 17-19 (17.8).

Adult female. — Length (skins), 172-187 (182); wing, 81.5-92 (87.2); tail, 73.5-83 (79.6); culmen, 19-21 (20); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22.6); middle toe, 17-18.5 (17.6).