BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. ^1 



buff (on edges of feathers) ; sides of crown, occiput, and nape uniform 

 dull black, forming two broad stripes extending from forehead to 

 nape, where they sometimes unite; immediately beneath this blackish 

 stripe a superciliary stripe of immaculate dull white, extending from 

 lores over eye to end of auricular region; forehead, loral, suborbital, 

 and malar regions didl buffy or brownish white, narrowly streaked 

 with dusky, the auricular region more brownish buffy and more 

 narrowly as well as less distinctly streaked; neck (all round) dull 

 brownish buffy, rather narrowly streaked with dusky or fuscous; 

 chin and throat immaculate dull white or buffy white; chest pale 

 drab-gray or pale smoke gray, the feathers with very narrow shaft- 

 streaks of dusky and very indistinctly margined with pale buffy; 

 rest of under parts immaculate white, passing into buff on under 

 tail-coverts; back, scapulars, tertials, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 deep grayish brown (fuscous), the feathers more or less broadly edged 

 with buff or pinkish buff; wing-coverts pale grayish brown or 

 brownish gray, rather broadly margined with buff (more or less 

 deep), and with narrow shaft-streaks of black; remiges dusky 

 brownish gray, the second to fifth primaries, inclusive (from out- 

 side), with basal portion extensively white, the three outermost with 

 inner webs wholly white subterminally, and broadly white along 

 edge toward base, the next with inner web white for outer half 

 (except terminally), the next w^th inner web wholly white, except 

 terminally; middle pair of rectrices brownish gray, usually with a 

 more or less distinct subterminal spot of dull whitish or dull pale 

 buffy, the tip more or less dusky; other rectrices white, broadly 

 tipped with dull black or brownish black and broadly barred or 

 banded with brownish gray; bill black, the rictus and basal half of 

 mandible horn color or greenish ; eyelids and iris yellow ; legs and feet 

 pale horn color or olive-greenish (olive-yellow or greenish yellow 

 in life). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but upper parts somewhat mottled and 

 edgings to feathers more mfescent or cinnamomeous. (Not seen.) 



Downy young. — -Above light buffy grayish (light to pale drab), 

 finely and rather indistinctly barred with black; a black bar (more 

 or less interrupted) across forepart of crown, and extending back- 

 ward from middle of this a narrow median line of black; occiput 

 with a <^ -shaped median spot of black, connected by a black Une 

 with a bar of blackish across nape; a distinct but irregular line of 

 black along each side of dorsal region, extending from upper back 

 to near root of tail; flanks and wings with a few irregular blotches of 

 blackish; forehead and under parts immaculate dull brownish w^hite 

 or buffy white. 



