588 



FRIireiLLID^;. 



streaked with darker brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ashy white. Total length 5-25 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3*15, 

 tail 2-1, tarsus 0-8. 



It is apparently only very old females which have the rufous on 

 the hind neck or any black on the breast. More than one breeding 

 hen bird in the collection lacks both these characters. 



Young. Brown like the old female, but darker and mottled with 

 hoary whitish edges to the feathers of the upper surface, the general 

 appearance of which is Lark-like ; facial markings as in the old 

 female, excepting that the ear-coverts are spotted with brown ; 

 throat white ; remainder of under surface of body sandy buff, the 

 fore neck and chest streaked with black, the sides of the body and 

 flanks mottled with blackish centres to the feathers ; tail-feathers 

 as in the adult, but with rather more brown on the outer webs. 



The young bird after the first moult is like the old female on the 

 upper surface, but is isabelline brown on the under surface, with a 

 few dark brown streaks on the breast aud flanks. 



Hub. Interior of North America, from the Saskatchewan Plains 

 south to Texas : rare west of Rocky Mountains ; accidental in 

 Massachusetts (A. 0. U. Check-list, I. c). South to Mexico. 



a. S ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



o. cJ ad. ; d. Juv. 



sk. 



e. 2 ad. sk. 



/. $ ad. ; y. Juv. 

 sk. 



h. 5 ad. sk. 



i, k. 3 ad. sk. 

 1} w. c? $ ad. sk. 

 n. S ad. sk. 



o. $ ad. sk. 



p. S ad. sk. 

 q. 3 ad. sk. 

 r. S ad. ; s. Juv. 



sk. 

 t. 3 ad. ; u. Juv. 



sk. 

 v. 3 ad. ; iv. $ 



jun. sk. 



49th Parallel, May 28, 1874 



(G. Dawson). 

 49th Parallel, June 9, 1874 



(G. Dawson). 

 Pembina, Dakota, July 14, 



1873 (E. Coues ; Sm. nos. 



65629, 65633). 

 Great Bend of Heart River, 



Dakota, June 22, 1873 (E. 



Coues ; Sm. no. 65121). 

 Souris River, Sept. 3, 1873 



(E. Coues ; Sm. nos. 65650, 



65668). 

 Souris River, Aug. 9, 1873 



(E. Coues; Sm. no. 65640). 

 Hall Co., Nebraska, April 30, 



1880 (A. Hall). 

 Hall Co., May 9, 1880 (A. 



Hall). 

 Larned, Pawnee Co., Kansas, 



Feb. 26, 1885 (G. C. Water- 

 man). 

 Colorado, Oct. 4 (C. E. Aitken; 



Sm. no. 69479). 

 Mexico (De Sausmre). 

 Mexico (A. Boucard). 

 Puebla, Mexico. 



N. A . Boundary Com- 

 mission [P.]. 



N. A. Boundary Com- 

 mission [P.J. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. Nat. Museum. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 H. K. Coale, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 H. K. Coale, Esq. 



[P.]. 



U. S. Nat. Museum 



[P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 A. Boucard [C.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Near the City of Mexico 



(White). 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico (A. Salle). Sclater Coll 



