1. K.U,I.U9. 9 



more distinct on tlie cheeks ; chin and upper throat white ; lower 

 throat, foro neck, and breast vinous cinnamon ; sides of the breast 

 olive, with blackish centres to the feathers ; abdomen whitish ; sides 

 of body and flanks liffht brown, barred with white, each white bar 

 bordered with dusky blackish, and very much narrower than tho 

 brown bars ; this^hs white, barred with brown, uniform brown poste- 

 riorly : vent-feathers and central under tail-coverts barred with white, 

 the bars not always traversing both webs in the latter, and reduced 

 to large subterminal spots of black on the outer under tail-coverts, 

 which are otherwise pure white ; under wing-coverts dusky blackish, 

 crossed with narrow lines of white : " lower mandible and edges of 

 upper one brownish yellow ; ridge of upper one and tips of both 

 deep brown ; feet yellowish brown, tinged with olive ; iris bright 

 red" {J. J. Audubon). Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 2-4, 

 wing 6"5, tail 2-6, tarsus 2-2, middle toe and claw 2-G. 



Nestling/. Covered with black down ; the feathers of the under 

 surface pale sandy buff on their first appearance, including the 

 throat. The full-grown young birds are like the adults on the upper 

 surface, but differ entirely in colour on the under surface ; the 

 throat is white, the lower throat, fore neck, and chest tinged with 

 cinnamon ; the breast is isabelline white, the sides of the neck and 

 the sides of the body ashy, and most of the feathers of the breast 

 and )iock with a blackish or dull ashy tip ; the flanks barred with 

 dull iishy blackish. In one full-grown young specimen the under 

 tail-coverts are regularly barred with black and white ; whereas in 

 tho other, shot live days earlier, the under tail-coverts are white, 

 witli black subterminal spots. 



In adult birds considerable variation is seen in the colour of the 

 flanks, wherein some examples have these ])arts barred with brown 

 and white, whereas others have the bars quite black. In every case 

 the white bars are conspicuously narroMer than the dark ones, and 

 this is especially the case with young birds after their first moult, 

 when the white bars are often extremely narrow and in some cases 

 almost obsolete. The lateral under tail-coverts are occasionally 

 pure white, l)ut this is not often the case. 



J/ah. Confined to Xorth America, from Canada to the Middle and 

 Eastern United States to Texas and Florida. Cuba. 



a, b. Ad. St. North America. J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



c. (S ad. sk. Kankakee, Illinois, May {R. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ridgtcay : Ileiis/i. Coll.). 

 d,e. 2 ad. sk. Chicago, Mar. 27 (C E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Aihen: Hcmh. Coll.). 

 /. Pull. sk. Bone Island, Virginia, July 14 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Ji. liiilywai/). 

 g. Pull. sk. Cobb's Island, Virginia, .Tuly 4 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. Brewster). 

 h, i, k. c? ad. ; De Soto Co., Florida, June, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Pull. sk. Nov., Jan. ( JC. R. Dean). 



«j, 72. Juv. sk. Tarpon Springs, Florida, Aug. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( jr. K D. Scott). 



