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brown or cinnamon-))uti'; malar stripe, chin, and throat plain dull buff; 

 chest and sides similar but duller buffy or graj'ish buff, indistinctly 

 streaked with darker; abdomen white; under tail-coverts pale buff. 



Adult m«Ze.— Length (skins), 127-143.5 (132.8); wing, 70.9-79 

 (72.6); tail, 52.1-57.9 (51.8); exposed culmen, 11.2-12.1 (11.7); tarsus, 

 20.6-22.9(21.3); middle toe, 11.9-11.5 (13.2).^ 



Adult female.— \^Qw^\h (skins), 124.5-138.4 (131.1); wing, 69.8-79 

 (72.6); tail, 49.8-58.4 (51.8); exposed culmen, 11.4-11.9 (11.7); tarsus, 

 20.3-22.3 (21.3); middle toe, 12.7-14.2 (13.2).' 



Eastern North America; north to Nova Scotia, Anticosti Island, 

 Labrador?, southern and western shores of Hudson Bay, and the Yukon 

 Valley in Alaska (Nulato, Fort Yukon, etc.); west to eastern base of 

 Rocky Mountains, in Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Nederland, etc.) and 

 Montana (Fort Keogh), accidentally to British Columbia (Esquimault); 

 breeding southward at least to Virginia, the Ohio Valley, and Kansas, 

 probably much farther, and in Bahamas (islands of Abaco, New Prov- 

 idence, Rum Cay, Green Cay, and Eleuthera); in winter, Gulf coast 

 of United States, Bahamas, Greater Antilles (Cuba, Grand Cayman, 

 Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, and St. Croix), Swan Island and Old Prov- 

 idence Island, Caribbean Sea, and through Mexico (both coasts) and 

 Central America as far as Chiriqui. 



^ Thirteen specimens. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 



Specimens from opposite sides of the Alleghenies and from the Bahama Islands 

 average, respectively, as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Eight adult males, Virginia to Connecticut 



Five adult males from Mississippi Valley 



Four adult males from Bahamas (Abaco, New Providenec, 

 Rum Cay, and Green Cay islands) 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from Virginia, District of Columbia, and 

 Maryland 



Four adult females from Mississippi Valley 



Three adult females from Bahamas (Abaco, Green Cay, and 

 Eleuthera islands) 



Tarsus. 



22.1 

 21.1 



21.3 

 21.3 



Middle 

 toe. 



13.7 

 12.9 



13.2 

 13.5 



Dr. Allen has already called attention (Auk, viii, 1891, 68), to the larger bill of 

 specimens from Andros Island, which he considers to "probably represent a local 

 resident form, differing slightly from the North American stock in having the bill 

 rather larger, the crown patch deeper orange, and the black line bordering it and the 

 black streaks below slightly heavier." I have not seen any specimens from Andros 

 Island, but the color-characters mentioned above do not apply, at least not constantly, 

 to specimens examined from the islands of Abaco, New Providence, Rum Cay, Green 

 Cay, and Eleuthera. 



