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terminal shaft spots and subterminally banded with Front's brown ; scapu- 

 lars and rest of interscapulars and upper wing coverts between Front's 

 brown and russet with narrow pale tawny shaft streaks terminally widen- 

 ing into whitish tips, the feathers with a broad subterminal blackish band 

 (not extending across the pale shaft streak) and sparsely freckled with the 

 same on the basal brownish area ; back, lower back, and rump dark hair 

 brown barred with whitish (the whitish bars formed by the tips of the 

 feathers) ; primaries between hair brown and chaetura drab, faintly and 

 finely mottled on the outer web with pale cinnamon-bufT and narrowly 

 tipped with whitish ; secondaries hair brown on their inner webs, Sayal 

 brown on the outer webs which are transversely broadly blotched with 

 blackish and finely and sparsely peppered with dusky ; the innermost sec- 

 ondaries have this Sayal brown extending over the inner web as well, and 

 all the secondaries are tipped with pale pinkish buff ; upper tail coverts and 

 rectrices Sayal brown transversely broadly but irregularly banded with 

 blackish and tipped with huffy white ; lores, cheeks, and auriculars pinkish 

 buff darkening to light pinkish cinnamon above and behind the eye ; chin 

 and upper throat very pale pinkish buff ; lower throat pinkish buff irregu- 

 larly barred with hair brown ; the feathers broadly tipped with white ; 

 breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts dark hair 

 brown but the feathers of the sides and flanks and lower abdomen heavily 

 washed with Sayal brown, their shafts white. 



Natal down (sexes alike). — Head as in juvenal plumage described 

 above ; the upper back slightly paler but very heavily and extensively 

 blotched with dark bister; back, lower back, and rump somewhat darker 

 and more rufescent, heavily marked with Brussels brown to bister and 

 Vandyke brown, the spinal tract being broadly and continuously of this 

 dark tone ; sides of head pale pinkish buff to tilleul buff, paling to almost 

 white on the chin and upper throat and breast ; middle of abdomen washed 

 with straw yellow, whiter laterally. 



Adult male.— Wing 480-550 (512.9) ; tail 370-440 (397.2) ; culmen 

 from cere 31-38 (34.8) ; tarsus 146-181.5 (162.6); middle toe without 

 claw 73-87 (81.4); length of tarsal spur 14.5-23 (18.5); diameter of 

 tarsal spur 10-13.5 (11.6 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.— Wing 382-438 (414.3) ; tail 306-345 (329.3) ; culmen 

 from cere 28-35.5 (31.7) ; tarsus 126-143 (131.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 61.5-68 (65.4mm.).i« 



Range. — Formerly resident in wooded districts from southern Maine, 

 southern Ontario, and northern New York, southern Michigan, southern 

 Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota, Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, and Kansas ; south through New England, New York, New Jersey, 



Nine specimens from Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland. 

 ' Six specimens from Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, and North Carolina. 



