

58. CALCARIT/S. 585 



Centrophanes pictus, Cab. Mus. Rein. Th. i. p. 127 (1850) ; Ridgw. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 22 (1881) ; Coues, Check-list, p. 51 



(1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 358 (1884) ; Agersb. Auk, 



ii. p. 281 (1885). 

 Centrophanes sniithii, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 127, note (1850). 

 Calcarius pictus, Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 33 (1882) ; 



Seton, Auk, iii. p. 323 (1886) ; A. 0. U. Check-list N Amer. B. 



p. 263 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above ochreous buff, thickly mottled 

 with black centres to the feathers, those of the mantle and upper 

 back with whitish edgings ; lesser wing-coverts black, broadly tipped 

 with white ; median and greater coverts blackish brown, edged with 

 light brown and whitish towards the ends ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with light brown, rufescent 

 on the secondaries, the primaries margined with white, and the inner 

 secondaries friuged with white at the ends ; upper tail-coverts dark 

 brown, edged with rufous-brown ; iail-feathers blackish brown, edged 

 with lighter brown, the two outer feathers almost entirely white, 

 with an oblique blackish mark near the end of the inner web, and 

 edged with blackish near the tip of the outer web ; crown of head 

 black, with more or less remains of sandy margins to the feathers ; 

 an occipital patch of white, varying in size ; nape and hind neck 

 deep ochreous buff, forming a collar, the ochreous shade over- 

 spreading the mantle ; lores and a very broad eyebrow white ; 

 eyelid also white ; feathers below the eye and ear-coverts black, 

 with a large patch of white in the middle ; cheeks white, forming 

 a moustache which widens out a little on the sides of the neck ; 

 throat, sides of neck, and under surface of body deep ochre, a 

 little paler on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks paler ochre, 

 streaked with reddish brown or black ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below 

 ashy, whitish along the edge of the inner web : " bill dusky, 

 paler at the base beneath ; legs brown " (J. Richardson). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen - 5, wing 3 - 55, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*75. 



In the full summer plumage the pale edges of the feathers of the 

 upper surface become worn off, so that the general aspect of the back 

 is very dark, the head being entirely black. In a specimen in 

 breeding-plumage, collected by Dr. Eae, the third feather has a 

 median line of white for its whole length, as well as the two outer 

 feathers. 



Adult female. Very similar to the male, but not so richly coloured ; 

 the ochre colour of the hind neck and underparts lighter ; head like 

 the back and similarly pale-margined ; hind neck minutely spotted 

 with brown ; the throat separated from the white cheeks by a malar 

 line of brown ; sides of body and flanks broadly streaked with brown. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 3-45, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Some female birds have the collar on the hind neck very faintly 

 indicated and are sandy buff underneath, with spots on the fore 

 neck. These are probably birds of the previous year. 



