57. EEisMATrEA. 447 



brownish black : " bill and edges of the eyelids grej'ish blue ; iris 

 hazel ; feet dull greyish blue, webs inclining to dusky " (Auduhon). 

 Total length 1(5 inches, wing 6, tail 3-75, culmen 1-75, tarsus 

 1-12. 



Female. Upper half of the head, down to below the eyes, and 

 upper parts generally dusky greyish brown, minutely freckled and 

 sometimes indistinctly barred with greyish buff, more reddish, 

 almost chestnut, on the head ; cheeks like the top of the head ; a 

 whitish stripe, freckled with brown, from the base of the bill 

 almost to the nape ; chin and throat whitish ; neck pale brownish 

 grey, with narrow whitish bands ; lower parts whitish ; sides and 

 flanks with broadish brown bands and narrower ones of a whitish- 

 buff colour ; wings dusky brown, finely mottled with paler ; remiges 

 uniform ; tail brown ; biU dusky. Total length about 16 inches, 

 wing o'6, tail 3'75, culmen 1*5, tarsus 1-1. 



Youiuj male. Similar to the female, but cheeks whitish buS, with 

 no dark streak across, and sometimes only anteriorly tinged with 

 dusky brown ; under tail-coverts distinctly white. 



Young in down. Above dark smoky brown, darker on head ; a 

 whitish spot on each side of the back ; below eye, from bill to 

 occiput, a stripe of brownish white, and beneath this a narrower 

 one of dusky brown, confluent with the brown of the nape ; beneath 

 greyish white, shading into sooty brown on chest. 



Hah. Temperate North America, from Hudson's Bay to Guate- 

 mala, Costa Rica, and West Indies ; according to liidgway, also 

 New Granada ! 



a. (S ad. St. N. America. Hudson's Bay Co 



[P.]. 



b. Pull. St. N. America. Purchased. 



c. 5 ad. sk. N. America. Lord Odo Russell 



[P.]. 

 d,e. S 9- ad. et Arctic Exp. Sir G. Back [P.]. 



juv. sk. 

 f,y. cJ $ ad. sk. 49th Parallel. N. America Boimd- 



ary Comm. [P.]. 

 h. S ad. sk. Washington, D.C., April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. (S ad. sk. North Dakota, May. E. S. Cameron, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 k. cj juv. sk. Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I. (S ad. sk. Grand Tower, Illinois, April. Howard Saunders, 



Esq. IP.]- 

 wi, n, 0. (S 2 ^<1' Riverdale, Illinois, May Salvin-Godman CoU. 



sk. _ {£. JF. Nelson). 



p. (S juv. sk. Norfolk, Virginia, Jan. ( W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brewste)-). 

 q. Pull.sk. Arkansas River, Aug. {C. E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Aihen). 

 r-ti. 2 ad. et cJ Cor])US Christi, Texas, Dec, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. Jan. (F. B. Armstrong), 



v-a'. cf $ ad. sk. Brownsville, Texas, March, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 April, Nov. {F. B. Arm- 

 strong). 



