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or U-shaped submargiiial markings of dusky, crown streaked and 

 occiput mottled with dusky, and primaries darker gi'ay; bill dusk}', 

 more brownish basally; legs and feet brownish (in dried skins). 



Downy young.— Vpper parts buffy-white to deep pinkish-buff, 

 nearly immaculate, but with one or more small irregular black spots 

 on occiput, or on occiput and crown, and a few small and indistinct 

 irregular spots or streaks of dusky on rump; under parts immaculate 

 white or buffy white, the throat usually more buffy; bill pale yellow- 

 ish brown, tipped with dusky; legs and feet pale yellowish. 



Adult male.— Wing, 163-178 (168.1); tail, 70-93 (81.2); exposed 

 culmen, 26-31 (28.8); tarsus, 14-15.5 (14.5); middle toe, 11.5-13.5 

 (12.8).'^ 



Adult female.— Wing, 160-167 (162.9): tail, 61-85.5 (72.9): ex- 

 posed culmen, 25.5-30 (27.5); tarsus, 14-16 (14.7); middle toe, 

 11-13 (12.2).'' 



Breeding along Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, 

 from eastern Massachusetts (Ipswich; Nantucket Island; Martha's 

 Vineyard) — formerly from Maine — to Texas, up the Mississippi 

 Valley to northern Indiana (Wolf Lake, Noble County), Iowa, 

 southeastern South Dakota, and northwestern Nebraska (at least 

 formerly), and southward throughout Bahamas and West Indies 

 and Gulf coast of Mexico to British Honduras (Glover's Cay; 

 Grassy Cay; Long Cay) and coast of Venezuela; casual or accidental 

 in Labrador, Newfoundland, and Colorado (Colorado Springs; Fort 

 Collins) ; occm's also, at least as migrant or winter resident, on islands 



Fourteen specimens. 



& Thirteen specimens. 



