YlC BULLETTN oft, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



the feathers darker centrally or with darker shaft-streaks; upper 

 tail-coverts black or dusky, margined, more or less distinctly, with 

 grayish; six middle rectrices black, margined terminally with pale 

 grayish brown or whitish; three outermost rectrices (on each side) 

 white (usually more or less strongly tinged with salmon-pink, some- 

 times deeply of this color), the terminal portion mostly black, this 

 occupying between terminal third and terminal half of third rectrix ; 

 wings dusky, the anterior lesser coverts broadly margined with gray, 

 the i^osterior lesser coverts and middle coverts margined terminally 

 with paler gray or grayish white, the greater coverts and secondaries 

 edged with grayish white (sometimes tinged with pinkish), the 

 primaries narrowly edged with light gray; lores mixed dusky and 

 whitish; upper portion of auricular region varying from light gray 

 likepileum) to dusky; malar region, suborbital region, chin, and throat 

 white, shading into very pale gray (paler than no. 10) on chest and 

 breast; sides and flanks salmon color or salmon-pink to almost saturn 

 red, the under tail-coverts similar but much paler and more pinkish; 

 axillars and pre-axillar patch bright orange-red (flame scarlet to 

 scarlet); under wing-coverts salmon-color or salmon-pink; inner webs 

 of remiges broadly edged with dull pinkish white; maxilla deep horn 

 brown, darker terminally, maxilla lighter brow^n basally; iris brown; 

 legs and feet dusky brown; length (skins), 315-367(337) ; wing, 121- 

 129(124.5); tail, 200-256(225.5) ; exposed cuhnen, 17-19(17.9) ; tarsus 

 17.5-19 ( 18.3) ; middle toe, 13-14.5 ( 14). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the male, but lateral rectrices much less 

 elongated and coloration usually decidedly duller, the sides, flanks, 

 under wing-coverts, etc., much paler salmon color (sometimes very 

 pale orange-buff), axillary patch more restricted and more orange, 

 concealed crown-spot obsolete or wanting, and third rectrix mostly 

 black or dusky; length (skins), 260-295 (276); wing, 111.5-119.5 

 (115.6); tail, 125.5-182 (159.7); exposed culmen, 16-18(17.3); tar- 

 sus, 18-18.5(18.2); middle toe, 13-14.5(13.6).^ 



Young (sex not deternnned). — Somewhat like the paler or duller 

 colored adult females, but gray of upper parts decidedly brownish 

 (pale drab-gray), the crown darker, and without trace of concealed 

 spot; sides, flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts uniform, ver}^ 

 pale cream-buff; no orange axillary patch. 



Southern Texas to southern Kansas; less commonly in southwest- 

 ern Missouri, western Arkansas, and western Louisiana; southward, 

 during migration, through eastern Mexico and central America to 

 northern Panama; accidental in Illinois,^' Florida (Key West, five 

 specimens, January 15, 1885; Cape Sable, March 2, 1885; Miami), Vir- 



" Ten specimens. 

 b Six specimens. 

 cBendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 223. 



