BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female. — Pileuiu sooty brown streaked with darker, the fore- 

 head more or less extensively intermixed with pale buffy or dull whit- 

 ish, the crown and occiput sometimes narrowly streaked with tiio 

 same; hindneck, back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and uj)j)er 

 tail-coverts plain sooty brown (between olive and sepia); wings 

 (exce]:)t lesser coverts) dusky with light grayish brown edgings, the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts margined ternunally with the same; 

 lores dull whitish or pale buffy, becoming dusky grayish near eye: 

 auricular region light sooty brown with narrow shaft-streaks of j)aler; 

 malar region, chin, and throat white, sometimes tmged with yellow or 

 buffy; rest of under parts varying from naples yellow^to light orange- 

 buff, the chest sometimes with a few narrow streaks of dusky; l)ill, 

 iris, and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 113-130 (121); wing, 

 61-65.5 (62.6); tail, 48.5-55.5 (51.8); exposed culmen, 12.5-14 (12. S); 

 tarsus, 16.5-19 (17.9); middle toe, 9.5-11 (10.1). « 



hnmature male {second yearf). — Similar to the adult female, but 

 under parts (except chin and throat) pale vermilion red, salmon-pink, 

 or flesh color.'' 



Young. — Above dark sooty, the feathers nuirgined termmally with 

 buffy, the feathers of rump broadly tipped with cumamon-buff or 

 cinnamon; middle and greater wing-coverts margined terminally with 

 buff or cinnamon-buff, secondaries margined terminally with whitish, 

 the rectrices more or less tipped or terminally margined with pale buff 

 or whitish; malar region, chin and throat dull white; rest of under 

 parts light yellow (straw or naples) the chest usually streaked with 

 dusky. 



Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle, Narborough, Charles, James, 

 Jarvis, Abingdon, Bindloe, Duncan, and Barrington islands). 



Pyrocephalus nanus Gould, Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' iii, 1841, 45, pi. 7 (Galapagos 

 Archipelago; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 



o Fourteen specimens. 



b The pileum intermixed with scarlet in older individuals. 



