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throat, and fore neck light ochreous brown, with a half-concealed 

 blackish spot behind the ear-coverts ; sides of neck grey, mottled with 

 rufous like the hind neck ; breast and abdomen white : sides of body 

 and flanks pale ochreous brown, faintly streaked with dull rufous- 

 brown ; thighs whitish, with black bases ; under tail -coverts isabel- 

 line buff ; under wing-coverts and asillaries ashy whitish, the former 

 tinged with yellow ; edge of wing bright yellow ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner web : " bill flesh-coloured beneath, dusky 

 above ; feet light flesh-colour ; iris dark brown " {Audubon). Total 

 length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-5, tail 1-8, tarsus 075. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 4-6 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-3, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-8. 



In the breeding-plumage all trace of the rufous markings on the 

 upper surface becomes obliterated, and an ashy shade overspreads the 

 mantle and back, the greater coverts being conspicuously ashy grey 

 on the outer web ; the under surface of the body becomes very dingy, 

 and the buff colour of the throat and breast is scarcely perceptible ; 

 the bill is blackish horn -colour, instead of reddish brown (in skin). 



Young. Eesembles the adult, but is mottled with narrow white 

 edges to the feathers, the greater coverts and inner secondaries being 

 margined with white ; the under surface of the body is whitish, 

 tinged with ochreous buff on the lower throat, fore neck, and chest, 

 which parts are streaked with blackish brown. 



Hab. Eastern United States and Southern Canada to the plains, 

 south to Florida, Cuba, Porto Eico, and coast of Central America. 

 A paler race {A. perpallldus, Eidgw.) inhabits the Western United 

 States from the Plains to the Pacific Coast. 



a. Ad. st. North America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. North America. Sclater Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. Providence, Rhode Island, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.] 



Aug-. 8, 1878 (H.KCoale). 



d. S ad. sk. District of Columbia, July 26, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1859 (E. Coues; Sm. no. 



29477). 

 Englewood, Illinois, July 24, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.! 



1878 (H. K C). 

 Riverside, Illinois, July 4, H. E. Coale, Esq. [P.]. 



1877 (H. E. C.) 

 Riverside, July 4, 1877 (H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 



E. C.) 

 Hyde Park, Illinois, June 28, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1875 (H. E. C). 

 Indiana (R. Ridgway). U.S. Nat. Museum [P.], 



Crittenden, Arizona, July 15, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



1884 (F. Stephens). 

 ad. Mt. Graham, Arizona, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



22, 1873 (H. W. Henshaw; 



Sm. nos. 66875, 66877). 

 Arizona (H. TV. Henshaw, Salvin-Godmar Coll. 



Sm. no. 69498). 

 Gainesville, Texas, June 25, H. E. Coale, Esq. [P.], 



1884 (<?. H. Ragsdale). 



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