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distinctly blacldsh) terminally, the remaining rectrices black, faintly- 

 glossed with bluish or greenish, passing into grayish brown basally, 

 each rectrix very broadly tipped mth white, this decreasing in extent 

 from the outermost, on which the white extends much farther on the 

 outer web than on the inner; rectrix next to middle pair with white 

 tip very narrow (rarely obsolete) and usually with the black duller or 

 replaced by dusky grayish brown, rarely almost wholly grayish brown; 

 auricular region grayish brown, sometimes concolor with pileum and 

 hindneck, sometimes much darker; suborbital and malar regions, 

 lower portion of auricular region, and entire under parts dull white, 

 faintly shaded with pale bluish gray, except on under parts of body 

 and under tail-coverts, which are sometimes very faintly tinged with 

 pale buffy; under wing-coverts buffy white to pale pinkish buff; 

 inner webs of remiges (except distally) Ught cinnamon-rufous passing 

 into cinnamon-buff on edge; mandible (except tip) and basal half, 

 more or less, of maxillary tomia yellow, the rest of bill slate-black; 

 iris dark brown; naked skin of orbital region grayish (in life); legs 

 and feet pale bluish gray. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but lateral rectrices much duller 

 blackish or dull dusky grayish brown, with white terminal areas much 

 less sharply defined, outer webs of primaries usually more rufescent, 

 primary coverts rufescent, and naked skin of orbital region pale 

 yellow. 



• Adult maJe.— Length (skins), 264-305 (275); \ving, 135-154 (143.6); 

 tail, 133.5-150 (140.7); exposed culmen, 24-29 (26.4); tarsus, 23-27 

 (25.2); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.2).<» 



Adult female. ^Length, (skins), 265-295 (282); wing, 138.5-151 

 (146.4); tail, 139-151 (145.7); exposed culmen, 25-29.5 (27); tarsus, 

 24-27 (25.4); outer anterior toe, 17.5-19.5 (18.5).'' 



o Twenty-seven specimens. 



b Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from New York (Syracuse) 



One adult male from Pennsylvania (Carlisle) 



Five adult males from Maryland (1), District of Columbia (2), 



and Virginia (2) 



One adult male from North Carolina 



Three adult males from South Carolina (May) 



Five adult males from Florida (May) 



Two adult males from eastern Texas (May, June) 



Two adult males from southern Illinois 



One adult male from Minnesota 



Three adult males from Cuba (April, May, September) 



Two adult males from Jamaica (May) 



One adult male from Porto Rico (August) 



Eleven adult males of C. a. occidentalis 



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 18 



18.4 



18 



19.2 



18.3 



17.5 



18 



18 



18.2 



17.5 



18.5 



19.1 



