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BULLETIK 50, L'XITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



mandible pale brownish or dull yellowisli, dusky at tip; iris dark 

 brown; legs and feet light brownish (yellowish gray in life). 



Winter plumage. — Similar in pattern to the summer plumage, but 

 the general coloration much more decidedly buffy. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but buff of head, neck, chest, wings, 

 etc.. much deeper, streaks on foreneck and chest much less distinct, 

 and interscapulars plain blackish with distinct buff margins. 



Downy young. — Sides of head and under parts immaculate dull 

 white; forehead (except laterally) pale buffy grayish brown, with a 

 rather indistinct central spot of dusky; crown and occiput ])ale bufi'y 

 grayish brown, longitudinall}' but irregularly mottled with black and 

 margined with the same; nape with a central spot and lateral broad 

 streaks of black; back, rump, wings, etc., irregularly mottled with 

 black on a ground of pale bufl'y grayish brown and dull whitish. 



Adult waZc— Wing, 157-181 (163.3); tail, 79-92 (S3.4); exposed 

 culmen, 26-31 (28.2); tarsus, 43.5-49 (46.4); middle toe, 25-28 

 (26.2).« 



Adult female. —Wmg, 161-178 (166.6); tail, 79-89.5 (75.6) ; exposed 

 culmen, 27.5-32 (29.8); tarsus, 47-50.5 (48.5); middle toe, 25-27 

 (26.3).^ 



Breeding from northern Virginia, soutliern Indiana, southern: 

 Illinois, southern Missouri, southern Oklahoma, (^olorado, north- 

 eastern Utah (Kamas Prairie), southern Oregon (Fort Klamath), 

 etc., northward to southern Maine (Oxford County)', southern 

 Quel)ec (Hatley), southern Ontario (islands near Kingston), southern 

 Michigan, central Wisconsin,* Manitoba, central Keewatin, southern 



« Ten specimens. 



& Nine specimens. 



Localitv. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Pennsylvania (Carlisle, May 20) 



Three adult males from southern Illinois (Richland County, 



June) 



Four adult males from Nebraska (1), North Dakota (2), and 



Montana (1) 



One adult male from Mackenzie (Fort Smith) 



One adult male from northwestern Alaska (Kowak River) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Mackenzie (Fort Smith) 



Five adult females from Montana (1), North Dakota (3), and 



Kansas ( 1 ) 



One adult female from southern Illinois (Richland Coimty, 



June) 



One adult female from Louisiana (April 8— migrant?) 



One adult female from Cuba (Cabanas, May 22) 



25 

 27.3 



25. T 

 25 

 27 



25 



26.5- 



26 

 27 



26. S' 



