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more or less varied witli ))laekish; g-eneral color of upper parts light 

 broccoli brown or butfy hair brown, the back and scapulars i)roadly 

 streaked with brownish black, these blackish streaks with a narrow 

 marginal suti'usion of brown; middle and greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with white or buffy white, producing two distinct bands; under parts 

 (except chin, throat, and median portion of chest) white, becoming dull 

 brownish buti'v on sides and flanks, where more or less streaked with 

 brown or duskv; under tail-coverts pale bufiy withgrajnsh brown cen- 

 tral (concealed) areas; 1)111 lig-ht brownish (vinaceousor vinaceous-pink 

 in life^); iris In'own; tarsi light brownish, toes slightly darker. 



Immature {young in first lointerf). — Pileum with feathers black cen- 

 trally, but more or less broadly margined with pale grayish buffy. pro- 

 ducing a conspicuously squamate effect; throat (sometimes chin also) 

 white, or mostly so, with more or less of black along each side; middle 

 of chest blotched or broadly streaked with black or dark brown; other- 

 wise like adults, (Some specimens with fully developed black throat- 

 patch have the feathers of the pileum more or less tipped (not mar- 

 gined laterally) with pale gray or grayish white. These are possibly 

 younger birds.) (Young not seen.) 



Adult w^Zt^.— Length (skins), 164.08-186.18 (176.78); wing, 87.12- 

 91.44 (89.15); tail, 79.76-85.85 (83.57); exposed culmen. 12.70-13.21 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 8.S9-9.65 (9.14); tarsus. 23.37-24.89 

 (24.38); middle toe, 16.00-17.78 (17.27).' 



Adult female.— \^^\\gi\i (skins). 169.16-176.53 (172.72); wing, 80.01- 

 85.09 (82.80); tail. 77.22-80.26 (78.99); exposed culmen, 12.19-12.95 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 8.64-9.65 (9.14); tarsus, 23.11-24.13 

 (23.62); middle toe, 16.00-17.27 (16.51).' 



Interior plains of North America, from eastern base of Rocky 

 Mountains to western Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Manitoba, etc., 

 occasionally, during migration, to Illinois (Bloomington. Riverdale, 

 etc.) and Wisconsin (Racine); Ineeding range unknown;" south in win- 

 ter to Texas (Navarro and Kendall counties, San Antonio, etc.); acci- 

 dental in British Columbia (Comox, Chilliwack, and New Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island), and Oregon. 



FrliigiUn qtierula Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Canada, 2d ed.,i, 1840, 555 (near 

 Independence, Missouri ). 



Zonotriclilaquerula Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 2dser., i, 1847, 51.— Baird, 

 in Stanslniry's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 (^Missouri R. ); Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix. 1858, 462; Cat. \. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 348.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 488 

 (San Antonio, Texas, spring) . — Allen, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 267, in text (Leav- 

 enwortli, Kansas, May). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 7 (winter resident). — 

 CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 185; 2d ed., 1882, no. 280; Birds N.W., 1874, 157; 



^ Seven specimens. 



^ IJoubtfully recorded as breeding near Fort Custer, Montana, and its supposed nest 

 and eggs described, by Major Charles Bendire, in The Auk, vi, 1889, 150. 



