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paler) blackish barring and less difference between the paler bars (which 

 are cinnamon-buff to pale cinnamon-buff) and the interspaces of tawny- 

 olive, the tips paler and grayer; upper wing coverts dull olive-brown to 

 clove brown banded with pale pinkish buff ; secondaries pale clove brown, 

 their outer webs olive-brown barred with pale pinkish buff, these pale 

 bars margined with dark clove brown; primaries pale clove brown, their 

 outer webs spotted transversely with pale pinkish buff; rectrices bright 

 tawny-olive with terminal tear-shaped whitish shaft streaks, and barred 

 with pale cinnamon-buff each buffy bar distally edged narrowly, and 

 proximally much more broadly, with blackish ; lores, chin, and upper 

 throat whitish ; a pale cinnamon-buffy superciliary stripe from the lores 

 to the posterolateral angle of the occiput ; cheeks ochraceous-buffy, the 

 auriculars tawny-olive ; feathers of breast and sides light tawny-olive in- 

 completely barred with clove brown and with white shaft stripes ; feathers 

 of sides and flanks similar but the dark bars complete ; abdomen whitish 

 barred with pale olive-brown to drab ; thighs v.hitish tinged with drab ; 

 under tail coverts white, basally spotted and splotched with olive-brown. 



Dozvny young. — Apparently unknown. 



Adult male— Wing 207-220 (212.0); tail 88-95 (92.4); exposed 

 culmen 16.5-18 (17.1); tarsus 43-47 (44.4); middle toe without claw 

 36.5-40 (39.0); height of bill at base 9.5-11 (10.5 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.— Wmg 195-201 (198) ; tail 81-87 (84.2) ; exposed cul- 

 men 42-43 (42.3) ; middle toe without claw 3(>-^10 (38.4) ; height of bill 

 at base 9.5-10.5 (10.0 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Breeds from southeastern Colorado (Gaumes Ranch, Baca 

 County, and Holly, Powers County, north to the Arkansas River), 

 Nebraska (formerly), and southwestern Kansas (Cimarron, Neosho 

 Falls), south through southwestern Oklahoma (near Arnett, Fort Cobb, 

 Ivanhoe Lake, Fort Reno) to northern Texas (Mobeetie, Alanreed) 

 and to east-central New Mexico (Portales and Staked Plains ).^^ 



Winters chiefly in central Texas, from Colorado City, Monahans, and 

 Midland, north to Bandera, Fort Clark, Concho and Tom Green Counties, 

 and the Davis Mountains. 



Casual in southern and southwestern Missouri (Pierce County and 

 Lawrence County), central Kansas (Oakley and Garnett). 



Recorded in fossil state from Oregon (Pleistocene). 



Type locality. — Prairies of Texas (near lat. 32° N.). 



^' Five specimens from New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. 



*' Four specimens from Nebraska and Oklahoma. 



'" Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 285, writes that while this species has been 

 reported from Nebraska there are no specimens to substantiate this claim. In the 

 U. S. National Museum are three birds obtained in the Fulton Market, New York, 

 said to have been killed in Nebraska. 



