70. PCKECETES. 671 



Pooecetes graniineus, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 447 (1858) ; Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1859, p. 379 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 112 (1862) ; Cones, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 164 ; Dresser, t. c. p. 487 ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 186 

 (1870) ; Allen, Bull. Mm. Comp. Zool. iii. p. 177 (1872) ; Coues, 

 Key N. Amer. B. p. 137 (1872) ; Baird, Brewer, 4 Ridgw. 

 Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 545, pi. 29. fig. 1 (1874) ; Coues, B. 

 N.-West, p. 129 (1874); Maynard, B. Florida, p. 103 (1878); 

 Merrill, Proe. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 126 (1878) ; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. iii. p. 178 (1881) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 229 

 (1882) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 52 (1882) ; Butcher, 

 Auk, i. p. 31 (1884) ; Bicknell, t. c. p. 330 ; Coues, Key N. 

 Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 364 (1884) ; Seton, Auk, ii. p. 23 (1885) ; 

 Beckham, t. c. p. 141 ; Ayersb. t. c. p. 280 ; Merriam, t. c. p. 315 ; 

 A. O. U Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 264 (1886) ; Batchelder, Auk, 

 iii. p. 314 (1886) ; Fox, t. c. p. 317. 



Adult male. General colour above streaked, the feathers of the 

 mantle and back brown, slightly tinged with rufous and rnesially 

 streaked with blackish brown ; the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts more ashy brown, and not so broadly streaked with 

 blackish ; lesser wing-coverts chestnut, with blackish bases : median 

 coverts blackish, tipped with rufous and edged with dull white ; 

 greater coverts blackish, externally edged with ashy brown, rufes- 

 cent toward the tip, which is whitish ; bastard-wing blackish, 

 edged with rufous ; primary-coverts and quills blackish brown, 

 edged with ashy brown, the first primary with whit}' brown, the 

 secondaries externally browner ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged 

 with ashy brown, the outer one for the most part white, with 

 an oblique blackish mark along the inner web ; the second feather 

 edged with white along the end of the outer web ; crown of head 

 like the back, and similarly streaked with black ; hind neck rather 

 more ashy brown, less distinctly streaked ; lores and eyelid dull 

 white, as well as a streak above the ear-coverts, forming an indis- 

 tinct eyebrow ; ear-coverts ashy brown, rufescent along the upper 

 margin, with a black spot on the hinder margin ; feathers below 

 the eye and cheeks dull white, the latter separated from the ear- 

 coverts by a line of blackish brown, a second broad line of blackish 

 separating the cheeks from the throat, which is white ; remainder 

 of under surface of body isabelline white ; the lower throat, fore neck, 

 and chest spotted with triangular markings of blackish brown ; 

 breast and abdomen uniform ; sides of body and flanks isabelline 

 buff, distinctly streaked with blackish brown ; thighs isabelline ; 

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

 the former with dusky bases near the outside of the wing ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy isabelline along the inner edge : " upper mandible 

 brown ; lower mandible and the feet flesh-coloured or yellowish " 

 (E. Coues); "iris hazel" (Audubon). Total length 5*4 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 3-2, tail 2-35, tarsus 0"8. 



Adtdt female. Like the male. Total length 5'8 inches, culmen 

 0-45, wing 3-1, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-75. 



In autumn plumage the aspect of the adults is much more rufous 

 than in summer, especially on the margins of the scapulars and 



