390 chakabeiiDjE. 



Audubon). Total length 14 inches, culmen 3-3, wing 8*1, tail 2"9,. 

 tarsus 2-2. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to the male, but never 

 so fully assuming the red plumage. Total length 14 inches, culmen 

 3-7, wing 8-7, tail 2-9, tarsus 2-5. 



Adult in winter plumage. Ashy brown with dusky shaft-lines to 

 the feathers ; rump darker and more of a dusky blackish ; upper 

 tail-coverts white with black tips ; tail black, white at base ; wing- 

 coverts ashy brown with whitish edges, broader on the greater series,. 

 the lesser coverts darker brown ; quills as in the summer plumage, 

 the innermost secondaries ashy brown like the back ; crown of head 

 uniform ashy brown, tho hind-neck slightly fulvescent ; lores and 

 feathers in front of the eye dusky brown, surmounted by a broad 

 streak of dull white ; sides of face and sides of neck ashy grey, whiter 

 below the eye ; throat and under surface of body white, the lower 

 throat, fore-neck, and chest ashy grey, with whitish edges to the 

 feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts blackish, the latter 

 edged with white. 



Young. Similar to the winter plumage of the adult, but a little 

 darker ashy brown, the feathers of the upper parts mottled with 

 tawny-buff edges, before which is a sub-terminal black mottling or 

 bars, the centre tail-feathers similarly mottled with buff, and the 

 inner secondaries barred with the same colour ; crown of head ashy 

 brown with dusky blackish streaks ; throat dull white ; lower 

 throat, fore-neck, and chest light ashy, washed with pale cinnamon- 

 buff, which pervades the rest of the under surface, leaving only the 

 abdomen white ; sides of body slightly browner ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts black, with broad white margins to the latter. 



Hah. North America from Alaska to Hudson's Bay, and south to 

 the eastward of the Rocky Mountains, migrating through the Eastern 

 United States south by way of Cuba to South America, where it is 

 found down to Chili and even the Falkland Islands. 



a. <$ ad. sk. North America, May 19 Salvin-Godman Coll, 



{HensJiaw Coll.). 



b. $ ad. sk. Nulato, Alaska, spring (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Nelson : Hensh. Coll.). 



c. c? ad. sk. Fort Kenia, Alaska, May 5 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(F. Bischoff': Hensh. Coll.). 



d. Ad. sk. Hudson's Bay. Capt. Herd [P.]. 

 e-i. Ad. sk. Repulse Bay. Dr. J. Rae [P.]. 



k. $ ad. sk. Big Isl., Great Slave Lake. B. R. Ross, Esq 



[P.]. 



I. Ad.sk. Big Isl. (J. Held). Salvin-Godman ColL 



m. Ad. sk. 49th Parallel, May 27 (G. N. A. Bound. Comm. 



Dawson). 



*'. Ad. sk. New Jersey. Seebokni Coll. 



o. $ ad. sk. Long Isl., New York, May Seebohm Coll. 



( C. J. Maynard). 



p. c? juv.sk. Massachusetts, Oct. 10 (Hen- Salvin-Godman ColL 



show Coll.). 



q. cJ juv. sk. Ipswich, Massachusetts, Seebohm Coll. 



Oct. 20 (C. J. Maynard). 



