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of spots running in chain-lilco series; tibiro witii narrower and darker streaks; lower tail- 

 coverts with narrow central streaks like those on the tibiiB. Frequently there is a strong 

 bluish shade on flanks and lower tail-coverts, sometimes replacing the brown of the spots 

 on the former, and clouding in a similar form the latter. Length, 11.00; extent, 23.75; 

 wing, 7.75. 



Adult female. Pattern of coloration as in the male, bnt the colors different. The blue 

 above replaced by dailv umber-brown with a plumbeous cast, and showing more or less 

 distinct darker shaft-lines; these ou the head above very broad, giving a streaked appear- 

 ance ; white spots oil inner webs of primaries more oohraceons than in the male. Tail 

 dark plumbeous-brown, shading into blackish toward end, with five rather narrow 

 ochraccous or soiled white bars, the first of which is concealed by the ujiper coverts, the 

 last terminal. White beneath, less tinged with reddish than in the male, the tibi;e not 

 difierent from the other portions; markings Ijeneath as in the male. 



Juv. Above plumbeous-brown, tinged with fnlvous on head, and more or less washed 

 with the same on the rump ; frequently the feathers of the l^ack, rump, scapulars, and 

 wings pass into a reddish tinge at the edge; this color is, however, always prevalent on 

 the head, which is conspicuously .streaked witli dusky. Tail plumbeoiis-dnsky, darker 

 terminally, with five regular light bars, those toward the base ashy, as they approach the 

 end becoming more ochraceous; these bars are more continuous and regular than in the 

 adult female, and are even conspicuous on the middle feathers. Primaries dusky, passing 

 on edge (terminally) into lighter ; spots on the inner webs broader than in the female, and 

 pinkish-ochre ; outer webs with less conspicuous corresponding spots of the same. Beneath 

 soft ochraceous ; spots as in adult female, but less sharply defined ; tibi;c not darker than 

 abdomen. 



H.\D. Entire continent of North America, south to Venezuela and Ecuador; West 

 India Islands. 



Localities: Ecuador (high regions in winter, Sci,. P. Z. S. 1858, 451) ; Cuba (Cab. 

 Jour. II, Ixxxiii, Gundlaeh, Sept. 18U5, 225) ; Tobago (.Taro. Ann. Mag. 110) ; S. 

 Texas (Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 323, breeding ?) ; W. Arizona (Coues, Pr. A. N. S. 18G6, 42) ; 

 Costa Rica (Lawii. IX, 134) ; Venezuela (ScL. & Salv. 1SG9, 252). 



LIST OF SPf:CIMEXS EXA.MINED. 



National Muiseum, 42; Boston Society, 11; Philadelphia Academy, 10; Museum 

 Comp. Zool., 7 ; New York Museum, 3 ; G-. N. Lawrence, 2 ; R. Ridgway, 4. Total, 79. 



The plumage of the adult male, which is not as often seen as that of the 

 younger stages and adnlt female, is represented in tlie Smithsonian Collec- 

 tion by fifteen specimens, from various parts of North America. Of tliese, 

 an example from Jamaica exliibits tlie purest shades of color, though agree- 

 ing closely with some specimens from the interior of the United States ; the 

 cinereous above being very fine, and of a liglit bluish cast. The upper tail- 

 coverts are tipped with white ; the tail is a quarter of an inch longer tlian 

 in any North American specimen, one half-inch longer than the average ; 

 the wing, however, is about tlie same. 

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