5. NEOCORYS. 621 



dark brown, edged with ashy fulvoua, the outer feather almost en- 

 tirely white, with a white shaft and having a small mark of brown 

 near the base of the inner web ; the penultimate feather similar, 

 but the brown mark on the inner web much larger ; head like the 

 back, and distinctly mottled with black centres ; the hind neck 

 whity brown like the sides of the neck, mottled with small black 

 centres to the feathers, and thus forming a more or less distinct 

 collar ; lores, feathers round the eye, a tolerably distinct eyebrow, 

 ear-coverts, sides of face, cheeks, and under surface of body dull 

 white, with a slight tinge of sandy buff on the ear-coverts, chest, and 

 sides of body ; the ear-coverts slightly mottled with black spots ; 

 the fore neck with a few tiny streaks or triangular spots of black ; 

 sides of body and flanks tinged with sandy brown : " bill brownish 

 above, pale below; legs, feet, and claws yellowish flesh-colour and 

 transparent " (Audubon). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen O'o5, 

 ■wing 3-05, tail 2-1, tarsus 1-85. 



Adult female. Precisely similar to male, but a little smaller. 

 (^Atuluhon.) 



Young. Much more handsomely marked than the adult, the black 

 feathers on the upper surface having narrow fringes of ashy white, 

 the scapulars and wing-coverts being strongly tinged with sandy 

 rufous ; the upper tail-coverts rufous-brown, with broad black 

 centres to the feathers ; the centre tail-feathers black, with broad 

 margins of sandy rufous ; the rest of the tail as in the adult, except- 

 ing that there is a tinge of isabelline along the outer web of the 

 penultimate and outer feathers ; head mottled with black, the 

 feathers being black with narrow edges of ashy white ; hind neck 

 paler, spotted with black ; a narrow eyebrow, lores, and eyelid dull 

 ashy white ; ear- coverts pale sandy, with a few dusky-blackish 

 spots on the hinder margin ; cheeks and throat dull white, with a 

 distinct line of dusky-blackish spots along the upper line of the 

 cheeks and a malar stripe of blackish, forming a moustache ; fore 

 neck, chest, and sides of body pale sandy buff', with triangular 

 black spots on the fore neck and chest and sides of upper breast, 

 where the spots are a little larger ; the lower flanks longitudinally 

 streaked with blackish ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts dull white. 



Hah. Region of the Upper Missouri and Saskatchewan ; east to 

 the Red River {Coues). 



a. Ad. sk. North America {Audu- Sclater Collection 



bo7i). 



b. Ad. sk. Papillion, Nebraska, Sept. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



(i. Bddhui). 



c. (/. Juv. sk. Souris River, Dakota, Aug. U.S. Nat. Museum [P.^. 



{E. Coucs). 

 e. 2 ad. ; /, ff. Souris River .Aug. 9 (E. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Juv. sk. Coues). 



