XETKAONIDJE. 



sidps of the throat edged -with brown, those of the fore part of the 

 neck dark brown tipped with white ; breast butt or rufous buff, 

 with a subterminal brown bar and white tip to each feather (the 

 colour of this bar varies much in different individuals, even from 

 the same locality, and is sometimes exceedingly faint, at others 

 strongly marked and edged with lines of a deeper colour) ; sides like 

 the wing-coverts ; flanks and belly widely tipped with white, and 

 with dark brown or blackish subterminal bands ; vent white ; under 

 tail-coverts orange-buff or grey, more or less mottled Avith dusky 

 and tipped with white. Tail-feathers rufous, sandy, or grey, or a 

 mixture of ail three, barred and mottled with black and with a wide 

 siibterminal black band edged on either side with grey ; in some 

 specimens, usually those with chestnut rufHes, the subterminal 

 band is dull chestnut or brownish, in others it is interrupted or 

 indistinctly defined : these are apparently purely individual cha- 

 racters and are due neither to age nor sex. Total length 17 inches, 

 wing 7'3, tail 6'5, tarsus 1-G. 



Adv It female. Similar to the male but rather smaller and with 

 the ruffles usually less developed. 



Yonvq birds differ chiefly from the adults in having the outer 

 secondaries, scapulars, and tail-feathers rufous brown, with rather 

 widely placed bars of buff, edged and mottled with dusky ; chin and 

 throat white. 



Hab. Same as that of the genus. 



a, b. (S 9 iii^™- sk. 



c. (5 iid. sk. 



d. S ad. sk. 



e,f. d? ad.^k. 

 ff, h. (S ad. et imm. 



sk. ot St. 

 i. (5 imm. sk. 

 k, I. cJ ad. .sk. 



OT. 6 imni. sk. 

 n. 2 ad. sli. 



o. (5 ad. sk. 



/.. 2 ad. sk. 



q, V. (S 2 inim. sk. 



*-, t. S ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 V. 2 pull. sk. 



T. Full. sk. 



-f. $ ad. sk. 



Vancouver Is., Nov., Dec. 



(A. Forrer). 

 Kulato, Alaska, Feb. {E. W. 



Nelson). 

 Anoik, Alaska, March {E. 



W. Nelson). 

 Fort Sinjpscu, March. 

 Canada. 



Canada. 

 Fort Dufferin. 



Hudson's Bay. 



Calais, Maine {G. A. 



Bottrdmcm). 

 Massachusetts (//. W. Hcn- 



shmv) . 

 Grantville, Massachusetts, 



Marcb (H. W. Hmshaw). 

 Wellesley, Mass., Oct. {H. 



W. Henshaic). 

 Wellesley Hills, Mass., Oct. 



(H. W. Henslunc). 

 Concord, Mass., June {H. 



IV. Jiejishaic). 

 E. Hampton, ]\Jass., June 



(C. H. Merriutii). 

 Gianville, AVasbington Co., 



New York (,/. A. Hurst). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Cull. 



B.E.Eoss.Efq.rP.]. 

 Mrs. Mauger [P.J. 



Govt, of Canada [P.]. 

 N. Amer. Boundary 



Commission [P.]. 

 Hudson's Bay Co. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoD. 



Sahin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddalo Coll. 



