680 CHAEADRIID^;. 



N. Amer. p. 373 (1879) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 606 (1882) ; 

 Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 99 (1882) ; id. in Steams' Neiv 

 Engl. Bird-Life, ii. p. H)l (1883) ; Baird, Brewer, Sr Ridyto. Water- 

 Birds N. Amer. i. p. 183 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 

 p. 619(1884): Agersb. Auk, ii. p. 286 (1885 : S.E. Dakota); Turner, 

 Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus. viii. p. 246 (1885: Labrador); Breivster, 

 Auk, iii. p. 102 (1886: N. Carolina); Seton, t. c. p. 151 (Lake 

 Winnipeg) ; Smith, t. c. p. 285 (Denver) ; Fox, t. c. p. 302 (Ten- 

 nessee) ; A. 0. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 147 (1886) ; Ridgw. 

 Man. N. Amer. B. p. 150 (1887); Lloyd, Auk, iv. p. 185 (1887: 

 Western Texas) ; Sennett, t. c. p. 241 (N. Carolina) ; Cory, t. c. 

 p. 311 (Jamaica) ; Richm. Auk, v. p. 20 (1888 : Columbia) ; 

 Chapm. t. c. p. 270 (Gainsville, Florida) ; Evermann, t. c. p. 348 

 (Indiana) ; Brewster, t. c. p. 389 (Massachusetts) ; Cory, B. West 

 Indies, p. 232 (1889); Scott, Auk, vi. p. 156 (1889: Florida); 

 Pindar, t. c. p. 312 (Kentucky) ; Warren, B. Pennsylv. 2nd ed. 

 p. 78 (1890); Heine $ Reic'hen. Nomeml. Mus. Hein. p. 330 

 (1890) ; Thongs. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 498 (1890: Mani- 

 toba) ; Hatch, B. Minnesota, p. 117 (1892) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. 12 

 (1892: Jamaica), p. 212 (Florida); Cory, Cat. B. West Ind. 

 p. 92 (1892); Dwight, Auk, x. p. 8 (1893: Prince Edward Island) ; 

 Allen, t. c. p. 123 ; Wayne, t. c. p. 204 (S. Carolina) ; White, t. c. 

 p. 223 (Mackinac Isl.) ; Maokay, Auk, xi. p. 85 (1894: Massa- 

 chusetts) ; Stone, t. c. p. 136 (New York) ; Allen, Auk, xii. p. 90 

 (1895 : Cape Breton) ; Jones, t. c. p. 236 (Iowa) ; Wayne, t. c. 

 p. 364 (Florida). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy rufous, barred with 

 black, and with large sub-terminal blotches of black on many of the 

 scapulars and inner secondaries ; many of the feathers of the upper 

 surface spotted or tipped with pale lavender-grey, which forms a 

 conspicuous feature of the upper surface; wing-coverts sandy rufous, 

 barred with dusky, and with black on the lesser series; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills uniform sepia-brown, the outer 

 secondaries chequered and the inner ones freckled and barred with 

 sandy rufous ; centre of the lower back and rump dusky brown, 

 barred with blackish and centred with black near the tip, the 

 sides ol the rump and the lateral upper tail-coverts cinnamon- 

 rufous ; tail-feathers black with ashy grey tips, before which is a 

 thread-like line of sandy buff, the outer feathers with a few notches 

 of the same colour on the outer web ; forehead ashy grey, this 

 colour extending over the crown to the line of the eyes, followed 

 by a narrow band of sandy rufous, and then by a broad black band 

 from eye to eye, another on the occiput, and another on the 

 hind-neck, the bands separated by a narrow line of sandy rufous ; 

 lores and sides of face pale rufous buff, washed with ashy, especially 

 on the ear-coverts and cheeks ; a black line from the base of the 

 bill to the eye, and another along the upper line of the cheeks ; chin 

 white ; remainder of under surface cinnamon-rufous, clouded with 

 ashy grey on the throat and sides of the upper breast, where there 

 are a few small black bars; centre of breast and abdomen isabelline; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries cinnamon; lower primary-coverts 

 and quill-lining dull ashy : " bill light brown, paler and yellowish 



