702 FElNGILLIDA. 



reddish brown, edged with ashy grey, with longitudinal black 

 centres; centre tail-feathers brown, with black along the shaft- 

 region, the remainder brown, edged with pale reddish brown, the 

 ends of the outer feathers paler ; centre of crown ashy, streaked 

 with black, and bordered on each side by a broad line of chestnut- 

 brown, also streaked with black ; hind neck a little more ashy than 

 the mantle, and more narrowly streaked with black ; lores, feathers 

 in front of the eye, and a broad eyebrow creamy white, the latter 

 washed with ashy posteriorly ; feathers below the eye creamy white ; 

 ear-coverts ashy ochreous, with paler shaft-streaks, the upper edge 

 chestnut, forming a streak ; cheeks ochreous buff, separated from 

 the ear-coverts by a chestnut streak ; throat white, with scarcely 

 any dusky triangular spots, bordered on each side by a broad malar 

 streak of black, washed with chestnut ; sides of neck ashy grey, 

 narrowly streaked with dusky ; fore neck and breast white, the latter 

 tinged with rufous, all the feathers having broad triangular centres 

 of black, bordered on each side with chestnut, the spots collected in 

 the centre of the breast and forming a large patch ; abdomen white ; 

 sides of body and flanks fulvescent, streaked with chestnut, the 

 centres of the feathers black ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts 

 yellowish white with dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries whitish, with ashy bases ; quills below dusky, ashy rufous 

 along their inner edge : " bill deep brown above, bluish beneath ; 

 feet and claws pale brown ; iris hazel " (Audubon). Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-6, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5-7 inches, 

 culmen 0*55, wing 2-5, tail 2-5, tarsus 08. 



The summer plumage is more rufous than the winter plumage, the 

 ashy edges to the feathers becoming worn off, and the spots on the 

 breast blacker by reason of the failing of the chestnut colour. The 

 cheek-band also becomes purer white, losing the ochreous-buff tint 

 of the winter plumage, while there is no trace whatever of dusky 

 spots on the throat. 



Specimens of M. montana, Henshaw, received from the U.S. 

 National Museum under that name, appear to be absolutely insepa- 

 rable from M. fasciata. 



Hah. Eastern United States to the Plains, breeding from Virginia 

 and the northern portion of the Lake States northward (A. 0. U. 

 Check-list, I, c). M. montana is said to inhabit Colorado, Utah, 

 Nevada, and northward. 



a. Ad. sk. Montreal, Canada (P. L. S.). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Lake of Woods, Manitoba, N. A. Boundary Corn- 



July 6, 1873 (G. Dawson). mission. 



c,d, Ad.sk. 49th Parallel, June 1873 (G. N. A. Boundary Com- 



Dawsori). mission. 



e. Juv. sk. Sheffield, Indiana, July. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



f. <$ ad sk. Lake Forest, Illinois, April 30, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



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



g 9 ad. sk. Hyde Park, Illinois, April 30, B. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



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



