IIG BUDONIDJ;. 



the hinder nock distinctly barred with white or yellowish buff, form- 

 iiig' a tolerably distinct collar, extending on to tlie sides of the neck, 

 which are greyish buff, with narrow zigzag lines of dark brown ; 

 scapulars externally white, tipped with black, -Hath a few cross lines 

 of dark brown on a few of the feathers ; wing-coverts rather darker 

 than the back, the mottlings indistinct, but the feathers broadly 

 centred with black, the median and greater coverts with a large 

 white spot near tlie tip of the outer web, the greater coverts greyer 

 than the others, and strongly resembling the scapulars ; the spurious 

 quills and primary-coverts externally notched with white; (pills 

 brown, barred across with darker brown on both webs, those on the 

 outer web slightly mottled with bi;ff, the interspaces decidedly ful- 

 vescent on the secondaries, and inclining to white on the outer web 

 of the primaries, imparting a chequered appearance to the outer 

 aspect of the wing, the innermost secondaries resembling the sca- 

 pulars, but rather plainly barred across with whitish ; tail pale 

 brown, mottled with fulvous vermiculations, especially on the mar- 

 gins of all the feathers, which are crossed with about eight bars of 

 pale sandy buff ; loral plumes and feathers over the eye white, very 

 narrowly tipped with brown, forming a distinct eyebrow ; above the 

 eye a small I'ufous patch extending to the ear-tufts ; sides of face 

 greyish white, narrowly barred with brown, the hindcrmost tipped 

 with black, and resembling the ruff, the feathers of which are 

 whitish, broadly tipped with black, the gular feathers centred and 

 narrowly lined with black ; chin and fore neck whitish ; the rest 

 of the under surface duU white, most of the feathers broadly centred 

 with black, diminishing in breadth on the abdomen, the breast con- 

 sequently having an oceUated, the rest of the lower parts a barred 

 appearance, the flanks also narrowly barred with rufous ; tifeise 

 yellowish, barred with brown, disappearing on the tarsi, which are 

 whitish ; imder wing-coverts yellowish white, the edge of the wing 

 pure white, mottled with dark brown near the external margin, the 

 greater series light brown, the bases yellowish, resembling the inner 

 lining of the quills, which are brown, barred with yellowish on 

 inner web. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 6-3, tail 8-2, tarsus 1-4. 

 Huh. United States, except the southern middle province, the 

 north-west region, and Florida. {^Ridgvaij.) 



Rufous phase. 



a. Ad. St. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. St. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



d. 2 ad. sk. North America. Lord Odo Russell [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. North America. Major-Gen, Hardwicke [P.J. 



Grm/ ijhase. 



f. Ad. sk. Toronto, Canada. Mr. J. "Wliitely [CI. 

 )), h. Pull. sk. Toronto, Canada. Mr. J. Whitely [C.J. 



V. Ad. St. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday," Esq. [P. i 



