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Yovng male^firat plumage. — Above plain broccoli brown, the wings 

 and tail as in the adult, but wing-bands narrower, more or less strongly 

 buffy; beneath dull whitish, strongly shaded across chest and along 

 sides and flanks with pale broccoli brown. 



Yoxmg female., first pluynage. — Similar to the 3'oung male, but upper 

 parts rather less decidedly brown. 



Adult male.— \^Q\\^i\\ (skins), 118-136 (125.2); wing, r)7..5-76 (72.9); 

 tail, 51.5-58 (54.4); exposed culnien, 10-12 (10.9); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 4-4.5 (4.2); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 (18.5); middle toe, 12-13.5 

 (12.7).^ 



Adult female.— Ij^wgtV (skins), 115-12S (120.2); wing, 66.5-70.5 

 (68.4); tail, 50.5-53.5 (52.2); exposed culmen, 9.8-11 (10.6); depth of 

 bill at nostrils, 4; tarsus, 17-19 (18.2); middle toe, 12-13.5 (12.4).' 



Eastern United Stat(\s and more southern British Provinces, north 

 to Minnesota, Manitoba (to Lake Winnipeg), Ontario (Lake Muskoka, 

 Hamilton, etc.). New York, southern Maine, and New Brunswick; 

 breeding southward to southern Florida and Gulf States, wintering in 

 Southern States (Florida to Texas) and northward to coast district of 

 Virginia, southern Illinois, etc., occasionally to Massachusetts; occa- 

 sional in Bermudas. 



Sylvia pimis (not of Latham, 1790) Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 25, pi. 19, fig. 4. — 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 737, part. — Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 

 1823, 464.— Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 194; Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 81.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 387.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 132, pi. 111. 



Th[rtothurus'] ?p('mts Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 194, jtart. 



Sylvicola pinus Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 316, pi., 19, fig. 4. — Rich- 

 ardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — Bonaparte, Geog. and 



' Twenty-seven specimens. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 



Specimens from different localities (mostly taken during Ijreeding season) average 

 as follows: 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Nine adult males from Pennsylvania to Ma.ssa- 

 chusetts 



Five adult males from lower Maryland and coast 

 of Virginia 



Six adult males from Soutli Carolina and Alabama. 



Four adult males from Florida 



Three adult males from Mississippi Valley 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from District of Columbia 



Five adult females from South Carolina to Florida. 

 Three adult females from Mississippi Valley 



12.6 

 12.8 

 13 

 12.7 



13 



12.2 



12.5 



