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Adult male. General colour above brown, barred and marked with 

 buff and black ; the feathers on the crown mostly dark brown tipped 

 with white and somewhat elongate, forming a short crest ; those on 

 the back of the neck, wing-coverts, scapulars, and secondaries tipped 

 with whitish buff; the neck-tufts composed of more than ten 

 feathers, the longer ones are black, the middle and lesser ones 

 creamy white down the middle and margined on their inner webs 

 with pale chestnut ; quills pale brown, all (except sometimes the 

 innermost primaries) toothed or barred with buff ; lores and space in 

 front of the eye, patch above the ear-coverts, chin, and throat whitish 

 buff; a dark brown band from the angle of the gape to the ear- 

 coverts and a patch of spots of the some colour on the sides of the 

 throat ; feathers on fore part of neck dark brown, barred with light 

 red, and mostly with white shafts and tips ; rest of the underparts 

 paler brown, barred and fringed with white ; asillaries long, and 

 pure white like the vent ; thighs brownish white ; under tail- 

 coverts brownish black, mottled and very widely tipped with white ; 

 tail brownish black, narrowly tipped with white, the middle feathers 

 mottled and irregularly barred towards the margins of the webs. 

 Total length 16-5 inches, wing 0, tail 3-9, tarsus 1-9. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the neck-tufta 

 much reduced in length and the outer as well as the middle tail- 

 feathers barred with rufous buff. The measurements are usually 

 also a trifle less. 



In iioung specimens the general colour is brown, blotched with 

 black, and barred and mottled Avith buff; the top of the head is 

 chestnut, with a black patch in the middle ; the feathers of the 

 mantle, wing-coverts, scapulars, outer secondaries, and tail with 

 strongly marked whitish-buff shaft-stripes ; chin, throat, and under- 

 parts white, the latter barred with dark brown and washed with 

 buff or pale rufous on the sides. 



Hab. Prairies of Mississippi Valley, south to Louisiana and Texas, 

 west to the middle of Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota, north to 

 Manitoba and Wisconsin, east to Indiana and Kentucky. 



a, b. S 2 ^d. St. ; 



c, d. c? ad. et 



$ juv. sk. 

 e. cj ad. sk. 



/. cJ imm. sk. 

 ff. Juv. sk. 



h. (S juv. sk. 



». $ imm. sk. 

 k, I. Pull. sk. 



m. cJ ad. sk. 



n. Skeleton. 



Noi'th America. 



New York Market, Feb. {H. 

 W. llen^hinu). 



Illinois {J. II. Batty). 



Rockford, Illinois (/. Black- 

 man). 



Fox Prairie, Richland Co., 

 Dlinois, August {JE. W. 

 Nelson). 



Iowa, Dec. {E. Coues). 



Moody Co., Dakota, Jime 

 (F. J. Jencks). 



Ivan Pap, Kansas, Jan. 

 {Brown). 



Purchaaed. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

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Salvin-Godman Coll. 



