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legs and feet dusky; length (in flesh), 235-248 (242)«; wing, 184-208 

 (198); tail, 106-118 (110.9); exposed cuJmen, 6.10-7.5 (6.5); tarsus, 

 13.5-15.2 (14.4); middle toe, 13-15.5 (14.9).^ 



Adult female.— Similar to the adult male but without the white 

 subterminal band on taU, white on primaries more restricted, lighter 

 spotting, etc., of upper parts usually more conspicuous (giving a 

 lighter colored cast to the general color of upper parts, under parts 

 more strongly tinged with buffy, and white throat-patch usually 

 more or less suffused with (sometimes entirely replaced by) buff; 

 length (m flesh), 229-254 (241.5);*' wing, 187.5-203 (196.5); tail, 

 105-118.5 (112); exposed cuhnen, 6.2-7.2 (6.7); tarsus, 13.8-15.5 

 (14.8); middle toe, 14-16.5 (15.5).*^ 



Young. — Much like the adult female but without a well-defined 

 (if any) white throat-patch, the chin and throat being buffy barred 

 or transversely spotted with dusky — usually, however, with more or 

 less of an indication of the tiiroat patch of adults in the form of a 

 less heavily spotted or barred (sometimes immaculate) buffy or 

 whitish A-shaped area across middle of throat; general cast of upper 

 parts decidedly paler, on account of more numerous and smaller pale 

 markings, the wing-coverts especially having pale grayish or buffy 

 grayish largely predominating, and barring of under parts less sharply 

 defined. 



Eastern and northern North America; breeding in the Upper 

 Austral, Transition, Canadian, and southern portion of Hudsonian 

 zones, north to southern Maine (Bath; Mount Desert Island; Calais; 

 Somerset County; Island Falls), Nova Scotia (Barrington; Halifax; 

 Sydney; Digby; Newport), western Newfoundland (Bay of Islands), 

 southern Labrador (Natashquan), Quebec (Anticosti Island; Pomt 

 de Monts; Natashquan River; Grand Falls; Lake Mistissini; Fau- 

 riel; Grosse He; Magdalen Islands), northern Ontario (Moose Factory; 

 Brunswick House), and through Keewatin (Fort Churchill; Norway 

 House; Robinson Portage; Oxford Lake; Knee Lake), Saskatche- 

 wan (Prince Albert; Quill Lake; Maple Creek), and Athabasca 

 ((^learwater River) to Mackenzie (Fort Resolution; Fort Simpson; 

 Fort Providence; Fort Wrigley; western part of Bear Lake; Macken- 

 zie River below Fort Good Hope), and Yukon (La Pierre House; 

 mouth of Tatchun River; White Horse Rapids; Caribou Crossing); 

 west to edge of Great Plains, in Minnesota (Fort Snelling; Walker; 

 St. Cloud; Waseka), southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska 

 (Omaha; Lincoln; Beatrice), eastern Kansas (Emporia; near Law- 

 rence), etc., and through southern Manitoba (Carberry) and Alberta 

 (FortChippewyan; Fort Smith; Banff; Athabasca Lake; Slave River, 



a Six specimens. « Nine specimens. 



& Twelve specimens. <* Ten specimens. 



