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grey ; throat and breast cinnamon-rufous, becoming pale vinous on 

 the abdomen and sides, flanks light grey : vent and under tail- 

 coverts white; the back and sides of neck glittering with golden 

 and amethystine violet ; scapulars, tertials, and median wing- 

 coverts with velvety-black spots ; quills brown-black with greyish 

 edges, the inner primaries grey at the base of the outer webs ; 

 under wing-coverts bluish grey ; central tail-feathers dark grey, 

 the remainder pearl-grey, nearly white towards the apical part, each 

 with a patch of cinnamon at the base of the inner web, followed by 

 a black spot : bill black ; feet lake-red ; iris orange ; skin about 

 eye red. Total length about 17 inches, wing 8-8-5, tail 8-4, bill 

 0"75, tarsus 1 . 



Female. Head, hind neck, back, scapulars, and smaller wing- 

 coverts pale brown : rump and upper tail-coverts grey ; sides of the 

 neck glittering with amethystine-purple ; throat reddish white ; 

 lower fore part of the neck and breast pale brown, paler than 

 above, and fading into white on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; median and greater wing-coverts brownish grey ; the 

 median wing-coverts, the scapulars, and the tertials with black 

 spots, more numerous than in the male ; quills brown, the inner 

 primaries dull greyish at the base of the inner web; tail as in the 

 male, but the central feathers have a brown-grey tinge. 



Young. Like the female but still duller, the feathers of the upper 

 parts and breast with white crescentic edges; quills edged with 

 rufous ; the inner lateral feathers dull bronze-grey towards the tip. 



Hiab. Eastern North America, from Hudson's Bay southward, and 

 westward to the Great Plains, straggling westward to Nevada and 

 Washington Territorv. Accidental in Cuba. 



