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230 grayish brown or dusky terminally; lores plain gray or dusky; suborbital, auricular, and malar regions brownish buff or clay color narrowly barred with blackish; chin and upper tin-oat dull grayish, the latter indistinctly barred with darker; rest of under parts brownish buff or light buffy cinnamon, everywhere barred with black or dusky, the bars more lunulate or crescentic on foreneck and chest, narrower and less blackish on posterior parts; under wing-coverts light ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, narrowly and irregularly barred with black; inner webs of remiges light cinnamon-rufous, the outer primaries passing into grayish brown terminally; bill dusky horn color, sometimes nearly black terminally, paler brown basally, especially on mandible; iris brown; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in dried skins).

Young. — Similar to adults, but bars on under parts less sharply defined, especially on posterior portions, the under tail-coverts more rufescent.

Adult male. — Length (skins), 248-289 (260); wing, 119-134 (127.2); tail, 105-121.5 (112.9); culmen, 35-44 (37.9); tarsus, 26-30 (27.9); middle toe, 19-23.5 (21.2).

Adult female. — Length (skins), 250-276 (261); wing, 120.5-136 (127); tail, 105-122.5 (115.3); culmen, 35-38 (37); tarsus, 27-29.5 (28); middle toe, 20-23.5 (21.3). Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Pasa Nueva) and Campeche (Apazote), and southward through Guatemala (Vera Paz), British Honduras (Belize; Orange Walk; Toledo District; near Manatee