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and a postauricular area uniform dark brown (dark clove brown), the 

 latter dotted on posterior portion with white; sides of neck mostly 

 white, some of the feathers tipped, more or less distinctly, with brown; 

 chin, malar region, and subauricular region immaculate white; across 

 middle of throat a broken band of mixed brown and white, the former 

 predommating; ground color of under, parts white, slightly tinged, 

 in places, with pale buff, the breast (except on median line) with 

 large spots of brown (mummy brown to warm sepia), the sides and 

 flanks broadly striped with the same, the under tail-coverts with 

 narrower stripes, sometimes varying to more or less sagittate form; 

 legs buff, more or less deep, usually more or less clouded with brown; 

 under wing-coverts buffy white, more or less spotted or streaked with 

 brown; under surface of remiges grayish brown spotted with white, 

 the spots larger and more roundish on secondaries and inner primaries, 

 narrower and oblique on longer and outermost primaries ; bill horn 

 color (in dried skins), the culmen (broadly) and tip dull yellowish; 

 iris lemon yellow. 



Young. — Remiges and rectrices (only) as in adults; rest of upper 

 parts plain deep sooty brown (warm sepia or Vandyke brown), the 

 auricular region and part of suborbital region uniform sooty black; 

 superciliary, loral, and rictal regions dull white, the feathers with 

 black shafts ; under parts plain warm sepia or vandyke brown (some- 

 what lighter than color of upper parts), intermixed on posterior 

 portion with dull buffy. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 230-245 (239); wing, 163-171.5 

 (168.4); tail, 96-102 (98.6); culmen (from cere), 13.5-14.5 (14.1).« 



Adult female.— LeTigih. (skins), 238-281 (259); wing, 171.5-182.5 

 (178.3); tail, 95.5-107 (104); cuhnen (from cere), 15-16 (15.3).^ 



Northern North America; breeding in Hudsonian and Upper 

 Canadian zones, from the limit of tree growth in Alaska (Yukon 

 delta; Nulato; Tanana; shores of Bermg Sea and Kotzebue Sound; 

 head of Toklat River), Yukon (Rink Rapids; Forty-mile) , and 

 Mackenzie (Fort Simpson), south to northern British Columbia 

 (Lake Adolph), northern Alberta, northern Manitoba (Winnipeg?; 

 Red River), Nova Scotia, and Magdalen Islands; south in winter 

 (regularly or casually) to Massachusetts (near Newton; Framing- 

 ham; Hyde Park), Rhode Island (near Providence, 2 records), 

 Pennsylvania (Allegheny County, March 12, 1896), southern Ontario 

 (Toronto, 9 records; Hamilton; Ottawa), northern Illinois (KenU- 

 worth; Rockford; Cicero), Wisconsin (River Falls), Minnesota (Fort 

 Snellkig; Becker County), Colorado (Crested Butte; Breckenridge), 

 northwestern Idaho (Fort Sherman), southern British Columbia 

 (Okanogan; Chilliwack; Quesnelle, Caribou District), Washington 



a Seven specimens. . & Five specimens. 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 40 



