BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



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Adult female in summer. — Similar to the male but with jugular band 

 and loral stripe grayish brown instead of black, the former sometimes 

 tinged or intermixed with ochraceous, cinnamon, or rusty, and crown 

 wholly grayish brown or with but little of black on anterior portion. 



Winter pluinage (sexes ahke ?) — Similar to the adult female in summer, 

 but jugular band, loralstripe, and fore part of crown more grayish brown. 



Downy young. — Crown and occiput light grayish buff, distinctly 

 but very irregularly marbled or mottled with bhick; back and rump 

 similar but more grayish and the mottling coarser and less distinct; 

 arm-wijig light buff, mottled with dusky: hand-wijig immaculate 

 white; forehead, lores, superciliary region, sides of head, broad nuchal 

 collar and under parts immaculate white; an irregular but distinct 

 postocular streak of black, confluent posteriorly with the black mot- 

 tling of occiput; a large bare space on side of neck. 



Adult male.— Wing, 106-121 (116.4); tail, 44-50 (47.5); culmen, 

 19. 5-21. 5 (20. 7); tarsus, 27. 5-30. 5 (29); middle toe, 18-20 (19. 2).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 112-121 (117. 6); tail, 42-50 (46. 9); cubnen, 

 19-22 (20. 8); tarsus, 27-31 (28. 6); middle toe, 18-20 (18. 6).^ 



o Twenty -six specimens. 



^ Twenty-four specimens. 



Locality. 



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MALES. 



Eight adult males from coast of Virginia 



Five adult males from coast of South Carolina 



Three adult males from Florida 



Two adult males from Alabama 



One adult male from Louisiana 



Two adult males from coast of Texas 



One adult male from Bahamas (Andres Island) 



One adult male from Cuba 



Two adult males from Jamaica (type and co-type of Aeginlitis 



wilsonius var. rufinucha Ridg^vay) 



One adult male from Porto Rico (Vieques Island) 



One adult male from St. Clu'istopher 



One adult male from Margarita Island, \"enezucla (P. w. cinnor 



momina) 



Two adult males from Lower California (P. w. bddingi) 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from coast ol Virginia 



Two adult females from coast of North Carolina 



Three adult females from coast of South CaroUna 



Two adult females from Florida 



Two adult females from Bahamas 



Four adult females from Cuba 



One adult lemale from Jamaica (type oi Aegialitis wilsonius var. 



rufinucha Ridgway) , 



One adult female from Porto Rico (Vieques Island) , 



One adult female from St. Thomas 



One adult female from St. Christopher 



Two adult females from coast of Colombia (P.w. cinnamomina) . 



Two adult females from Lower California {P.w. bddingi) 



One adult female from Mazatlan. Sinaloa {P.w. beldingi) 



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