BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 



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and under parts buffy whitish or brownish white, the crown, occiput, 

 and hindneck grayish, the crown with a mesial streak of black, the 

 occiput with several irregular spots of the same. 



Adult male.—Wmg, 214-232 (222.4); tail, 67-76 (72.9); culmen, 

 59.5-70 (65.3); tarsus, 98-1*19 (108.8); middle toe, 35-42 (38.8).« 



Adult female.— Wmg, 202.5-218 (211.8): tail, 65.5-71.5 (69.3); 

 oubnen, 61-67 (63.9); tarsus, 95.5-109 (103.6); middle toe, 36.5-40 

 (38.3).^ 



Brooding from central Oregon, northern Utah (southern Idaho?)*' 

 and southern Colorado to southern California (Orange County), 

 southern New Mexico, southern Texas (Brownsville; Fort Brown; 

 Corpus Christi), northern Tamaulipas (Matamoros), and coast of 

 Louisiana; also, on coast of South Carolina (SuUivans Island), 

 Georgia (St. Simons Island) and Florida (Caloosahatchie River), on 

 Bahamas (New Providenoe, Andros, Great Inagua, Maragauna, and 

 Green Cay islands), Jamaica (?), Peru (Santa Cruz) and on Galapagos 

 Archipelago (Albemarle, Charles, Chatham, Hood, James, Inde- 

 fatigable, and Seymour islands); formerly breeding northward to 

 New Jersey (Cape May; Egg Island, Delaware Bay) and occurring 

 during migration, casually or occasionally northward to Long Island 



a Nineteen specimens. 



b Fifteen specimens. 



The wing measurements of the Galapagos specimens are defective, all of them having 

 the primarios not fully grown out. 



Adult females from Florida have the back and scapulars a decidedly darker grayish 

 brown than those from western localities. 



c Olds Ferry, Snake River. 



