BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



519 



brown or brownish black, mandible whitish or very pale brownish 

 (more pinkish or lilaceous in life), usually with extreme tip brownish; 

 iris deep brown; legs and feet blackish brown or brownish black. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but middle and greater wing- 

 coverts tipped with buff, forming two distinct narrow bands, feathers 

 of rump and upper tail-coverts tipped with light buify brown (more 

 or less distinctly) and olive on sides of chest more abruptly defined 

 against yellowish white or pale primrose yellow of other under parts. 

 (Frequently the feathers of nearly the whole of upper parts, especially 

 on pileum and posterior scapular, have very narrow terminal margins 

 of pale buffy or buffy brownish.) 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 136-155 (143); wing, 81.5-90.5 (82.5); 

 tail, 62-70 (65.3); exposed culmen, 12.5-14.5 (13.3); tarsus, 12.5-14.5 

 (13.7); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4).« 



■Adult Jhjiale.— Length (skins), 129-149 (134); wing, 77.5-83.5 

 (80.5); tail, 57.5-63 (61.4); exposed culmen, 12.5-14.5 (13.1); 

 tarsus, 12.5-14 (13.2); middle toe, 7-9 (8).^ 



Eastern North America, north to Prince Edward Island, Maine (Fort 

 Fairfield), northern Ontario (Parry Sound; Muskoka), and Manitoba, 

 west, regularly, to eastern border of Great Plains, casually to their 

 western boxder (Springfield, southeastern Colorado); breedmg south- 

 ward to northern and central Florida (Tarpon Springs; Gainesville; 

 Wacissa River), Mississippi, Louisiana (West Baton Rouge Parish), and 

 Texas (south to Fort Brown, at mouth of Rio Grande, west to Tom 

 Green and Bexar counties) ; migrating southward through eastern 

 Mexico (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas; Sabinas, Coahuila; Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz; Tapana and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Teapa, Tabasco; Yucatan 

 (mcludingCozumel Island), Guatemala (Vera Paz), Honduras (Ruatan 

 Island; Truxillo), Nicaragua (Rio Escondido), Costa Rica (Barranca; 



a Twenty-three specimens. 

 b Fifteen specimens. 



