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on the upper abdomen and with rather inconspicuous and few dusky 

 shaft streaks on the breast; lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts pale buffy white barred with light pinldsh cinnamon to 

 pinkish cinnamon on the thighs and upper abdomen, the bars becom- 

 ing fainter caudally, and absent entirely from the under tail coverts; 

 axillars and under wing coverts light pinkish buff to light pinkish 

 cinnamon barred and marked with light pinkish cinnamon to pinkish 

 cinnamon, and with a few hair brown bars as well; iris brown; orbital 

 ridge greenish; edge of eyelids, gape, and cere light cadmium j^ellow; 

 bill bluish horn color becoming blacker at base ; feet dull cadmium to 

 yellowish green, generally darker on the toes than the tarsi. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Upperparts as in adult, but with the reddish 

 and whitish feather edges much reduced, giving them a darker, more 

 uniformly fuscous-black appearance; remiges as in adult but with the 

 whitish areas suffused with cinnamomeous; rectrices drab, heavily 

 washed with cinnamon basally, narrowly tipped with whitish and 

 crossed by from six to nine dusky chaetura drab bars, the subterminal 

 one being the broadest; sides of head and neck as in adult, but the 

 cinnamomeous replaced by pale buffy white; entire underparts pale 

 buffy white to pinkish buff and to light pinkish cinnamon, heavily 

 spotted with large tear-shaped spots of hazel (rarely) to fuscous, the 

 spots becoming fewer and smaller and often disappearing entirely on 

 the lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail coverts; under wing coverts 

 pinkish buff spotted with fuscous; iris sepia; cere pale lemon yellow; 

 bill bluish at base and black at tip; tarsi and toes dirty light greenish 

 chrome yellow. 



Natal down. — White, sometimes with a slight pinldsh or brownish 

 tinge. 



Adult ma/e.— Wing 309-346 (320.8); tail 193-228.3 (207); culmen 

 from cere 19.1-23.7 (21.6); tarsus 75-83.5 (78.7); middle toe without 

 claw 33.1-40.5 (36.1 mm.).*^ 



Adult female.— Wmg 315-353 (339.1); tail 206.9-236.6 (219.9); 

 culmen from cere 20.6-25 (23.1); tarsus 74.8-87 (80.4); middle toe 

 without claw 34.9-41.7 (38.8 mm.)." 



Range. — Breeds from southern Ontario (Parry Sound and Muskoka 

 districts), southern Quebec, Nebraska, Iowa (Boone and Laporte 

 City), southeastern Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan (Sault 

 Ste. Marie, McMillan), and the Atlantic States south to North 

 Carolina (Walker, Lake Ellis, etc.) and northern and eastern South 

 Carolina; south to northeastern Tennessee, central Arkansas, Mis- 

 souri, western Oklahoma, and north and central Texas (merging with 



■•2 Twenty-six specimens from all parts of the range. 



<^ Twenty-two specimens from New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, 

 Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Arkansas. 



