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under surface white, washed with yellow ; the sides of the body and 

 flaoks washed with brown. 



The winter plumage is retained till the following April or May, 

 according to Dr. Coues. Specimens in changing plumage in the 

 Museum show that the bright summer dress is attained by a direct 

 moult, evidencing that this species has both a spring and autumn 

 moult. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. General colour above ruddy 

 brown washed with yellow, the rump bright lemon-yellow ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky 

 black, tipped with white; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky black, edged with ashy white, the secondaries more broadly 

 margined ; iipper tail-coverts hoary whitish ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 the centre ones with a broad margin of hoary white on the inner 

 web, the remainder with a large whitish mark at the end of the 

 inner web ; crown of head dark olive-yellow, brighter yellow on 

 the forehead and eyebrow ; lores and feathers below the eye bright 

 yellow ; ear-coverts dull olive-brown ; cheeks and under surface of 

 body bright yellow, greener on the sides of the body ; thighs ashy ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 whitish, the latter edged with yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 4-3 inches, culmen O-i, wing 

 2 - 75, tail 1'75, tarsus 055. 



Young birds resemble the old females, but are much browner, and 

 have the tips to the wing coverts and quills pale ruddy brown ; the 

 under surface of the body is dull olive, with the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts pale sulphur-yellow. 



Hab. North America generally, especially the Eastern United 

 States, wintering as far north as New England and as far south as 

 Mexico. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. Fort Dufferin, Manitoba, June U.S. Boundary Coni- 



1873 (6r. Dawson), mission. 



c. 3 ad. sk. S. Louis Co., Missouri, Mav II. K. Coale, Esq. 



1883. [P.]. 



d. £ ad. sk. Lake Forest, Illinois, April 3, II. K. Coale, Esq. 



1877. [P.]. 



e. Imm. sk. Lake Forest, Illinois, Nov. 2, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1880. [P.]. 



ft 9- 2 act - sk. Colehour, Illinois, May 18. It. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



h. $ ad. sk. Mount Carmel, Illinois, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1885 (J. L. Ridgway). 



i. Pull. sk. Halfday, Illinois, Aug. 21, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1877 (H. K. Coale). [P.]. 



k. 3 ad.sk. Stark Co., Indiana, Jan. 1, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1884 (H. K. Coale). [P.]. 



/. 3 ad. sk. Pennsylvania, March 1842 ( 8. U. S. Nat. Museum 



F. Baird; Sm. no. 11692). [P.]. 



m. cfad.sk. Albany, New York (D. Hurst). Sclater Coll. 



n. 2 ad. sk. Rock Creek, Distr. Columbia, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jan. 2, 1860 (Dr. Prentiss ; 



Sm. no. 28990). 



