with very indistinct narrow shaft-streaks of paler; rump, upper tail- coverts, and proximal secondaries deep cinnamon-rufous, the first intermixed, more or less, with olive-brown; tail chestnut, with shafts of rectrices more or less darker; primaries and distal secondaries deep cinnamon-rufous, edged, more or less broadly, with olive- brownish, the terminal portion of inner webs of longer primaries grayish brown or dusky; chin and throat light brownish buffy or pale clay color, the feathers edged with brown, producing a rather confused streaked appearance, those of the lower throat with broader brownish edgings and sometimes narrowly margined terminally with dusky; feathers of foreneck similarly marked but with small transverse spots in the brown edgings; chest light olive-brown or buffy grayish brown (varying from nearly broccoli brown to nearly raw- umber), with broad mesial streaks of pale buffy, these margined with a narrow line of blackish, these lines sometimes partially broken into small spots; rest of under parts light buffy brown, everywhere marked with narrow crescentic bars of black, these bars less distinct on flanks, thighs, and anal region; under wing-coverts ochraceous-buff or light ochraceous, with narrow, more or less crescentic, bars of blackish; inner webs of remiges light cinnamon-rufous, the outer primaries with terminal portion dusky; bill brown or horn color (more or less deep), paler (sometimes whitish) terminally and along tomia; iris brown; legs and feet dark horn color or dusky (in dried skins).
Young. — Similar to adults but general coloration darker and more rufescent, the pileum sooty blackish, with streaks broader and more tawny, the black bars on under parts indistinct or obsolete.
Adult male. — Length, (skins), 238-280 (251); wing, 126-130 (127.6); tail, 115.5-119.5 (116.7); culmen, 33-35 (34.1); tarsus, 26-28.5 (27); middle toe, 20-22 (21.1).[1]
Adult female. — Length (skins), 250-273 (261); wing, 120-126 (123); tail, 112-121 (116); culmen, 33.5-34 (33.7); tarsus, 27; middle toe, 20-21 (20.5).[2]
Costa Rica (Cartago, Naranjo, and Navarro, Cartago; Volcán de
Irazú; Rio Súcio; Laguária, Los Reyes, Santa Maria, Dota) and
- ↑ Six specimens.
- ↑ Two specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. Five adult males from Costa Rica 127.6 116.7 34.1 27 21.1 One adult male from Panamá (Capira) 126.5 119.5 35 27.5 21 females. One adult female from southwestern Costa Rica 126 112 34 27 20 One adult female from western Panamá (Chiriquí) 120 121 33.5 27 21
