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coloured. General colour above ashy brown, streaked with black 

 down the centre of the feathers ; the feathers of the mantle mottled 

 with broad whitish or fulvous edges ; rump like the back, slightly 

 washed with pale fawn-colour, and mottled with black bases to the 

 feathers ; upper tail-coverts ashy, tipped with dull white, before 

 which is a subterminal shade of blackish ; lesser wing-coverts 

 ashy ochreous with dusky bases ; median and greater coverts ashy 

 brown with dusky bases, both series tipped with spots of white ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally 

 edged with ashy brown, the primaries white near the extreme base 

 and towards the end of the outer web, the inner secondaries with a 

 white spot, at the end ' of the outer web ; tail-feathers uniform 

 dusky brown, edged with ashy brown ; crown blackish on the sides, 

 mottled with ashy-brown margins to the feathers ; along the centre 

 of the crown a light streak of white or ochreous feathers, minutely 

 streaked with black ; feathers below the eye, lores, and a narrow 

 eyebrow white, more developed above the ear-coverts : eyelid, sides 

 of face, and ear-coverts blackish brown ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body pale fawn-buff, light fulvous on the sides of the breast and 

 flanks, slightly mottled with black streaks on the former, the flanks 

 with distinct linear streaks of black ; centre of breast slightly 

 washed with yellow ; the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 whitish, washed with pale fawn-colour ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts bright lemon-yellow ; quills dusky, ashy whitish along the 

 edge of the inner web : " bill olive, fleshy white at base ; feet slate- 

 colour ; iris brown" {Cooper). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing - 9, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"95. 



Young male. Similar to the adult female, having the head blackish, 

 with the same pale mesial streak ; the under surface somewhat 

 brighter fawn-buff. 



Young females resemble the old female, but have more streaks on 

 the under surface, the fore neck and breast being narrowly streaked 

 with blackish. 



The specimens from California (H. capitalis) have the rufous 

 streak on the hinder crown and the hue behind the eye, which are 

 said by Mr. Ridgway to be characteristic of that race. As, how- 

 ever, he states that intermediate specimens are sometimes met with, 

 I have not separated the two races. 



Hab. High central plains of North America from Middle Kansas 

 to the Pacific, ranging into Mexico. 



a. H. melanocephalus. 



a. $ ad. sk. Camp Sheridan, Nebraska (J. A. U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Leigh ; Sm. no. 70501). 



b. $ ad. sk. Fort Bridger, Utah, May 22 Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



(C. Dexler; Sm. no. 11244). 



c. S juv. sk. Camp Crittenden, Arizona, Sept.2 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. W. Henshaw; Sm. no. 

 G9652). 



