BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



595 



dusky grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices passing into light 

 grayish olive on edges, the outer web of exterior rectrix broadly 

 edged with olive- whitish ; wings dusky with pale grayish olive edg- 

 ings, these most conspicuous on greater coverts and secondaries, on 

 the innermost of the latter broader and more whitish ; a slight admix- 

 ture of dull whitish on lores (especially upper margin) and on lower 

 eyelid; sides of neck similar in color to back but slightly paler; 

 under parts dull yellowish white, the chin (sometimes upper throat 

 also) more or less intermixed with dusky grayish, the sides of chest 

 and breast light grayish olive; axillars and under wing-coverts yel- 

 lowish white or pale primrose yellow, tinged with pale grayish, the 

 coverts near margin of wing dusky grayish centrally; inner webs 

 of remiges edged with very pale grayish buffy; bill black, the man- 

 dible more brownish; iris brown; legs and feet black. 



Adults in autUTnn and winter."- — Similar to spring adults, but yel- 

 lowish white of untler parts replaced by primrose yellow, back, etc., 

 more decidedly olive, and pale wing-edgings more yellowish. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but upper parts browner, middle and 

 greater wing-coverts rather broadly and abruptly tipped with cinna- 

 mon or ochraceous-buff (forming two conspicuous bands), and upper 

 tail-coverts tinged with cinnamon. 



Adult male.— Ijewgih (skins), 144-168 (157); wing, 81-90.5 (87.1); 

 tail, 67-77.5 (72.5); exposed culmen, 1.3.5-16 (14.5); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 

 (18.1); middle toe, 10-11 (10. 7).^ 



Adult female.— Ijei^gih (skins), 142-165 (154); wing, 77-92 (83.3); 

 tail, 63-75 (69.3); exposed culmen, 13.5-15 (14.4); tarsus, 16.5-19 

 (79); middle toe, 10-11 (10.5).'' 



Eastern United States and more southern British Provinces ; north 

 to Maine, northern New York (Adirondack region), northwestern 

 Ontario (Parry Sound; Muskoka), Keewatin (Norway House; Hell- 

 gate Gorge; Pelican Narrows), and southern Mackenzie (Fort Simp- 

 son; Fort Resolution; Fort Rae); west, at least occasionally, to 

 Athabasca (Little Slave Lake), eastern Wyoming (Beaver Creek, 

 Black Hills), eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico (near Santa 



« September to December, inclusive. 

 b Eighteen specimens. 



