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rufous -white, mottled and barred witli black, the scapulars and some 

 of the median coverts with a white shaft-spot dilated at the ex- 

 tremity ; primaries, primary-coverts, and rest of secondaries dark 

 brown, the quills being more or less margined with buff round the 

 outer web and tip ; upper tail-coverts black, mottled with rufous 

 grey and tipped with grey ; a small patch of black and white 

 feathers behind the bare skin surrounding the eye, and a similar 

 spot behind the lores ; chin, throat, chest, and middle of breast 

 black ; throat surrounded by an irregularly marked white band ; 

 fore part of the neck brownish black, tipped with rufous grey or 

 white ; sides of the breast and belly black, widely tipped with white ; 

 sides aud flanks like the scapulars ; vent white ; under tail-coverts 

 black, widely tipped with white ; tail black, slightly mottled with 

 rufous towards the base, and tipped with chestnut. Total length 

 15-5 inches, wing 6-8, tail 4-8, tarsus 1-4. 



Immature males and females after the first moult cannot be dis- 

 tinguished from the adults, except by the more pointed first primary. 



Adult female. Top of the head, neck, mantle, lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts black, barred with pale rufous yellow, and, 

 especially on the three latter, tipped with grey ; lesser, median, 

 and secondary coverts and scapulars similar to the back, but the 

 rufous bars are irregular and broken up into mottlings ; as in the 

 male, the scapulars and a few of the coverts have dilated white shaft- 

 spots at the extremity ; quills and primary-coverts as in the male ; 

 lores, chin, and throat pale rufous and whitish yellow, barred and 

 spotted with black ; fore part of neck and chest pale rufous, barred 

 with black ; breast, belly, and uuder tail-coverts the same, but 

 tipped with white ; sides and flanks like the scapulars ; vent white ; 

 tail as in the male, but irregularly barred with rufous ; in very old 

 specimens most of the barrings disappear, and only the bases of the 

 outer feathers are finely mottled with pale rufous. Total length 

 14-2 inches, wing 6-8, tail 4, tarsus 1-4. 



Hah. Northern N. America, ranging westwards to the east side 

 of the Rocky Mountains, eastwards to New England and New York, 

 northwards to Alaska, and south to Minnesota. 



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N. America. 

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Nulato, Alaska, March (K 



W. Nelson). 

 Fort Reliance, Alaska, Oct. 



{E. W. Nelson). 

 Fort Simpson, April. 



Fort Simpson, March (B. R. 



Ross). 

 Jaspers House, May. 

 Repulse Bay. 



Hudson's Bay Co. 



J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Admiral Sir G. Back 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 



A. Murray, Esq. [P.]. 



Dr. J. Rae [P.]. 



