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brown ; tail-feathers ashy brown with blackish-brown bands, about 

 nine in number ; a distinct white eyebrow ; lores brown ; sides of 

 face white, with minute streaks of brown ; chin and upper throat 

 white ; remainder of under surface of body sandy buff, broadly 

 streaked with brown on the lower throat, chest, and fore-neck, and 

 barred with brown on the sides of the body ; centre of breast, abdo- 

 men, and under tail-coverts whiter and uniform, excepting for a few 

 brown bars on the latter ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rufes- 

 cent, thickly barred with dusky brown ; quills below dusky brown, 

 very distinctly notched on the inner web with fulvous bars : " bill 

 brownish black, the basal half of the lower mandible flesh-colour ; 

 feet greyish blue, the claws black ; iris dark brown " (J. J. Audu- 

 bon). Total length 14 inches, culmen 3'7, wing 9*8, tail 3 # 8, 

 tarsus 2*25. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male, and 

 scarcely differing in size. Total length 17 inches, culmen 3 - 8, 

 wing 10*1, tail 3*4, tarsus 2*3. 



Adultsin winter plumage. Only differ from the breeding-plumage in 

 being less strongly marked on the under surface with spots and bars. 



Young. Resemble the adults, but are quite as strongly barred 

 and streaked underneath, though the markings on the chest are 

 concentric or irregular bars. The upper surface is spotted with 

 rufescent buff, the feathers of the back and especially the innermost 

 secondaries being notched externally with this colour. 



Hab. The whole of North America, breeding in the high north, 

 and passing south in winter, when it visits nearly every country of 

 South America. Once in Spain. 



a, b. (5 2 ad- sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Imm. sk. 



e,f. $ ad. sk. 



<?. Ad. sk. 

 h. 2 a d- sk. 



i. Ad. sk. 



k, I. 3 $ imm. 



sk. 

 m, n, o. Ad. sk. 



p. Imm. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 

 r. Ad. sk. 



«. 2 imm. sk. 



t. 2 ad. sk. 



St. Michael's, Alaska, May, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June {E. W. Nelson : 



Hensh. Coll.) 

 Hudson's Bay. Riocour Coll. 



(Type of N. rufus, Vieill.) 

 Ipswich, Massachusetts, Seebohm Coll. 



Sept. 1 (C. J. Maynard). 

 Cobb's Island, Virginia, Aug. 



(Hensh. Coll.). 

 Pennsylvania (J. Krider). 

 Brownsville, Texas, April 26 



(F. B. Armstrong). 

 Mexico. 

 Mazatlan, W. Mexico, Nov. 



(A. Forrer). 

 Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan. 



(O.S.). 

 Barbados. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sir R. Schomburgk 



[C.]. 

 R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Para. 



Cajutuba, Brazil (J. Nat 



terer). 

 Tambo Valley, Peru, Oct. 16 Tweeddale Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 

 Paracas Bay, Peru, Oct. (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H. Markham). 





