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web white for the greater part, blackish towards the tip ; tail white 

 at base, shading into ashy grey, and becoming brown before the 

 immediate tip, which is dull white ; on the inner webs of some of 

 the feathers are some brown spots and bars ; head and neck ochra- 

 ceous buff, narrowly streaked with brown, forming on the sides of 

 the face a tolerably defined malar stripe ; under surface of body 

 ochraceous buff, streaked broadly with brown on the breast, and 

 more narrowly on the thighs, which are of a deeper ochre ; the under 

 taU-coverts buffy white; flanks and abdomen uniform blackish brown ; 

 under wing-coverts ochraceous, with brown or rufous-brown streaks, 

 the lower series entirely dark brown. 



Aihdt. Above blackish brown, with slight rufous margins to the 

 interscapulary feathers and wing-coverts ; the scapulars barred with 

 fulvous or buffy fawn-colour ; lower back and rump blackish brown, 

 the upper tail-coverts white, tinged with deep ochre, and barred 

 more or less completely with black ; tail white at base and at tip, 

 uniform brown for rest of extent, washed with rufous or greyish, 

 and becoming subtermiually blackish brown ; quills much as in 

 preceding plumage, but more distinctly shaded with grey externally, 

 and more plainly barred with brown on the inner web ; head, neck, 

 and sides of face whitish, with broad dark brown centres to the 

 feathers, which are thus distinctly streaked, the cheeks more plainly, 

 thus forming a well-defined malar stripe ; under surface of body 

 ochraceous buflf; the throat streaked with brown, becoming much 

 broader on the breast ; the thighs widely banded with dark brown ; 

 centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts uniform ochraceous ; flanks 

 and abdomen deep blackish brown, estendii:g a good way up the 

 breast ; under wing-coverts black, varied with fulvous margins and 

 spots, broader on the innermost feathers and axillaries ; cere yellow ; 

 bill blackish ; feet yeUow ; iris yellow. Total length 22 inches, 

 culmen 1*5, wing 16'4, tail 9-5, tarsus 2*8. 



Variety. General colour above and below sooty black, with con- 

 spicuous white lores and frontal feathers, many of the feathers 

 slightly shaded with rufous on their margins ; nape and hind neck 

 whitish ; scapulars and wing-coverts with more or less concealed 

 spots of white or pale ashy brown ; quiUs blackish, barred with 

 lighter brown, externally shaded with ashy grey ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail blackish, tipped with ashy white, the latter crossed with 

 four or five bands of ashy brown, inclining to whity brown on 

 inner web. Total length 24 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 17, tail 10, 

 tarsus 2-8. 



Hah. Confined to North America. 



a. cJ var. sk. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Labrador. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Sumass Prairie, British J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.]. 



Columbia. 

 il, e,f. Juv. sk. Sumass Prairie, British .7. K. Lord, Esq. [C.]. 

 Columbia. 



