BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 687 



ing (proximal) primaries gray tipped with white, the sixth (from out- 

 side) sometimes with a subterminal spot or band of black; bill dark 

 brownish red (in life) the terminal third of culmen and gonys blood 

 red or carmine ; iris dark brown ; naked orbital ring dull dark red ; 

 legs and feet dark reddish brown (in life), the webs darker. 



Adults in winter.— Shmlfxr to summer adults but head and upper 

 neck white, the occipital and auricular regions spotted or mottled 

 with brownish gray and the e3^es more or less surrounded with the 

 same. 



Young. — Interscapulars, scapulars, and smaller wing-coverts grayish 

 brown, broadly margined with pale grayish buff or clay color; gi-eater 

 wing-coverts gray, tinged on margin of terminal portion with pale 

 grayish buff; secondaries dusky, abruptly tipped with white; 

 primary coverts and primaries dull black or slate-blackish, the latter 

 narrowly tipped with white; central portion of rump light brownish 

 gray, the lateral and posterior portions, together with upper tail- 

 coverts and posterior under parts, white; basal half of tail light gray, 

 the distal portion dull black, narrowl}^ tipped with white; head, neck, 

 chest, breast, and sides nearly uniform brownish gray or grayish 

 brown, darker on occiput and nape, and more or less tinged with 

 dull buffy on under parts (especially in younger individuals) ; abdomen 

 grayish white or very pale brownish gray; bill and feet dusky (in 

 dried skins). 



Downy you)ig. — Upper parts deep grayish buffy or grayish fulvous, 

 the head irregularly striped and spotted, the back, wings, and rump 

 irregularly marbled with dusky; under parts light grayish fulvous, 

 inclining to dull ochraceous on breast and abdomen, which are 

 immaculate; lateral and lower portions of head marked with several 

 large and distinct spots of black; foreneck, sides, flank, and anal region 

 dull fulvous-grayish, faintly mottled with darker; bill light brownish; 

 legs and feet dusky brownish. 



Adult male.— Wing, 316-348 (332.7); tail, 121-135 (127.6); exposed 

 culmen, 40-43 (41); tarsus, 47-53 (50.4); middle toe, 34.5-38 (36).° 



Adult fejnale.— Wing, 311-331 (322); tail, 116-125.5 (120.2); ex- 

 posed culmen, 38-40 (39.1): tarsus, 46-51.5 (48.1); middle toe, 

 32.5-35 (33.5) .« 



Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, Gulf and Caribbean 

 coasts of Mexico and Central America, Caribbean coast of northern 

 South America, West Indies, and other islands in Caribbean Sea; 

 breeding from Maine (Penobscot Bay) — formerly (up to 1856) from 

 Nova Scotia (Green Island, near Yarmouth) — to southernmost Lesser 

 Antilles (Grenada, Grenadines, etc.), islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and 

 Curasao, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Panama (Colon), cays off coast 



a Ten specimens. 



