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and that those which have broad white edges, concealing the black 

 to a greater or less extent, are the males of the preceding season. 



In the Salvin-and-Godman collection is a large series of speci- 

 mens killed in winter, which show that the adult birds are then brown 

 like the young ; but the original markings are much more strongly 

 indicated, and the wing-bars are white, while the yellow coronal 

 patch is bright ; the black streaks on the sides of the breast and 

 fore neck, though narrow, are yet distinctly indicated. 



Pidl-Xjliimagcd birds from Panama are in the same collection, 

 bearing no trace of winter plumage ; and the species therefore is 

 either resident there, or else puts on its full livery before leaving 

 for its summer home. It certainly breeds in Mexico, as Mr. A. 

 Ferrer obtained a specimen at Ciudad Durango on July 27 (Mus. 

 S. & G.) which is just moulting into the first autumn plumage. 

 The nestling feathers appear to have been ashy brown, with blackish 

 centres on the upper surface, brownish white below, with dusky 

 streaks on the chest. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male, but 

 diifers in having the upper surface washed with brown and in being 

 less distinctly streaked with black ; the yellow bar on the rump 

 paler and not so broad ; the yellow coronal patch obscured with a 

 wash of brown and the feathers tipped with black ; the supraloral 

 and postocnlar streaks not pure white, but dull greyish white ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye dusky blackish ; under surface of body 

 white, with a small yellow patch on the sides of the breast ; the 

 fore neck and sides of breast not uniform black, but mottled with 

 black, the feathers of these parts broadly edged with white. 



A female, shot by Mr. H. K. Coale on April 26, is acquiring the 

 yellow coronal patch by a moult. 



Young. Nearly uniform brown above, with slight indications of 

 mesial black streaks on the dorsal feathers ; the head like the back, 

 the yellow coronal patch being entirely obscured by brown ; rump- 

 spot pure yellow and distinct ; upper tail-coverts slaty grey, mth 

 black centres ; wings and tail as in the adults, but the edges to the 

 feathers broader and browner, the white wing-bars on the coverts 

 pale brown ; the white spot on the third tail-feather very small ; 

 the whitish supraloral and postocular streaks washed with brown ; 

 eyelid dull whitish ; lores and feathers below the eye dusky ; ear- 

 coverts brown ; under surface of body dull white, slightly washed 

 with yeUow on the abdomen ; the sides of the body and flanks 

 streaked with dusky blackish, with a slight indication of a saffron- 

 yeUow patch on the sides of the breast. 



Young males resemble the young females, but have a little more 

 vellow on the crown and sides of the breast, and the blackish 

 streaks on the under surface are more distinct. 



Hah. Korth America, but chiefly the Eastern Province. In the 

 north-west it extends across the continent ; thence some individuals 

 straggle southwards along the Pacific side to Washington, and pro- 

 bably Oregon and California ; north to the Arctic coast ; Greenland ; 

 west to the Eockv Mountains in the latitude of Colorado, where 



