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row of both scapulars and interscapulars nearly plain light gray, pro- 

 ducing when the plumage is properly arranged, four tolerably well-de- 

 fined broad stripes of that color ; primaries brownish gray ; tail brownish 

 black, sharply tipped with light gray, darker on upper surface, paler 

 (sometimes nearly white) on the lower; under parts pale grayish cin- 

 namon or dull cinnamon-buff, brighter or more rufescent laterally 

 and on under wing-coverts, the under tail-coverts with dusky shaft- 

 streaks; bill pale brownish (dull grayish flesh color in life), becoming 

 dusky terminally; iris dark brown; legs and feet pale brownish (dull 

 grayish flesh color in life). 



Downy young. — Above pale ochraceous-buff, beneath deeper 

 ochraceous-buff or light pinkish cinnamon; a line from bill to eye, a 

 large patch covering forehead and fore part of crown, another on 

 occiput, and a narrow mark back of eye with an oblique one beneath 

 it, dark chestnut-brown or dark burnt-umber, the upper parts with 

 several large, irregular patches of the same. 



Adult male.— Wing, 118.5-128 (123.5); tail, 54-63 (59.6); exposed 

 culmen, 60-66 (63.7) ; tarsus, 28.5-31 (29.5); middle toe, 30-34 (31.2).° 



Adult female.— Wing, 129-143 (134.8); tail, 58-65 (61.4); exposed 

 culmen, 64-74 (70.8); tarsus, 30-34 (32.6); middle toe, 29.5-36.5 

 (34.1).« 



Temperate eastern North America; breeding from Gulf coast 

 (southern Louisiana to northern Florida) northward to Nova Scotia 

 (Bay of Fundy), southern Quebec, Maine (Lake Umbagog; Houlton), 

 northern Michigan (Mackinac Island; Ausable VaUey), southern 

 Manitoba, etc., westward to edge of Great Plains, in North and 

 South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, or even (more rarely) to eastern 

 Colorado (Timnath; near Boulder; Jefferson and Park Counties); 



