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bauds of the same, with a tbird, but much narrower, band bidden by 

 the upper coverts. Sides of head, with chin and throat, dull white, nar- 

 rowly streaked with gray aud fine shaft-lines of black. Lower parts in 

 general barred with white aud pale ochrey rufous, in nearly equal pro- 

 portion, except on the crissum, where the dark bars (dull grayish brown 

 instead of rufous) are sparse, and on the tibiie, where the rufous bars 

 are much narrower and brighter in color. All the feathers of the fore- 

 neck, breast, sides, tiauks, and abdomen marked with distinct narrow 

 shaft-lines of dusky. Wing 12.50, tail 7.80, culmen .80, tarsus 3.20, mid- 

 dle toe 1.35. 



Yoimg (type, 'So. 78395, Clear Water, Florida, October 1879 ; S. T. 

 Walker) : Above dusky brown, the feathers with more or less white to- 

 ward bases, showing as streaks on head and neck, and as occasional 

 irregular spotting on other portions ; lesser wing-coverts edged and 

 tipped with dull light ferruginous ; anterior scapulars and interscapu- 

 lars marked, chiefly on concealed portion, with large irregular spots of 

 pale dull ochraceous ; wing-coverts much spotted, chietly beneath the 

 surface, with white ; five outer primaries with that portion of the outer 

 web anterior to the emargination dull white, washed with ochraceous, 

 and with a few dusky bars ; inner primaries with outer webs spotted 

 with ochraceous. Tail dusky, narrowly tipped with white aud crossed 

 by five narrow bauds of brownish gray, besides several narrower bands 

 concealed by the upper coverts; these bands narrower toward the base 

 of the tail aud also more rufous, especially on lateral feathers. Lower 

 parts buffy white, broadly striped with dusky on throat and foreneck, 

 and marked with irregular, but mostly broadly sagittate or hastate, spots 

 of the same on breast, abdomen, and sides ; tibiae marked with small 

 transverse spots and bars of brown ; crissum almost immaculate. Wing 

 12.75, tail 8.50, culmen .90, tarsus 3.20, middle toe 1.48. 



Three adults from the Everglades present the characters of the race 

 or subspecies even more strongly than the type described above. Un- 

 fortunately, however, the sex is not indicated. The very decided ashy 

 coloration of the upper parts, relieved only by fine shaft lines of black 

 on the head and neck, duskj^ clouding on the back, and white streaking 

 on the occiput, combined with the pale coloration of the lower parts, 

 serves readily to distinguish this race from the true B. lineatus. 



In " History of North American Birds," vol. iii, p. 277, attention is 

 called to the smaller size of Florida birds of this species, and the darker 

 plumage of the young, as shown by a series of twelve specimens in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. It is unfortu- 

 nately stated, however, that the plumage of the adults "does not differ 

 appreciably" from that of northern birds — a statement which, as shown 

 by the material now before me, is certainly erroneous. 



In naming this very* strongly characterized form I take pleasure in 

 dedicating it to ]\Ir. J. A. Allen, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 as a slight token of esteem. 



Smithsonian Institution, October 13, 1884. 



