18 Brewster's Descriptions of the First Plumage 



central region of the throat are immaculate, crossed transversely with 

 lines of dull black. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, 

 Me., June 20, 1873. This bird was very young, — scarcely able to fly, 

 in fact, — yet the color of the rectrices is sufficiently characteristic to sepa- 

 rate it at once from the corresponding stage of T. sicainsoni, which it 

 otherwise closely resembles. Another specimen of apparently nearly 

 the same age, taken at Rye Beach, N. H., July 25, 1872, differs in having 

 a decided reddish or rusty wash over the entire plumage, and by the spots 

 on the breast being brownish instead of black. 



3. Turdus swainsoni. 



First plumage : male. Above much darker than adult, each feather, 

 excepting on rump and tail-coverts, with a tear-shaped spot of rich buff : 

 beneath like adult, but rather more darkly and thickly spotted on the 

 breast, and with narrow terminal bands of dull black on the feathers of 

 the lower breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at 

 Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. 



4. Turdus fuscescens. 



First plumage : female. Above bright reddish-buff, deepest on back 

 and rump : feathers of pileum, nape, back, and wing-coverts margined 

 with dark brown, confining the lighter color to somewhat indefinitely 

 defined central drop-shaped spots. Lores and line from lower mandible 

 along sides of throat, dark sooty-brown : throat, sides, and abdomen 

 pale brownish-yellow with indistincl transverse bands of brown ; breast 

 deep buff, each feather edged broadly with dull sooty-brown ; anal region 

 dirty white. In my collection, taken in Cambridge, Mass., July 23, 



1874. 



5. Mimus carolinensis. 



First plumage : male. Pileum dull sooty-brown, many shades lighter 

 than in adult. Wings and tail as in adult ; interscapular region brownish- 

 ashy, shading into pale cinnamon-brown on the rump. Entire nnder 

 parts barred obscurely with dull brown on a very light ashy ground; 

 crissum pale, dead cinnamon. In my collection from Cambridge, Mass., 

 August 9, 1875. 



6. Harporhynchus rufus. 



First plumage. Generally similar to adult, bul with the spots on the 

 under parts much thicker, more diffuse, and dull black instead of reddish- 

 brown. The pileum is -lightly obscured by a blackish wash ; the rump 

 rich golden-brown, and the spotting on the wing-coverts fawn-color. From 

 specimens in my collection obtained al Cambridge, July 13, 1874. 



Fall specimens differ from full-plumaged spring birds in having the 

 upper parte of a darker, richer red, with a much stronger rufous wash on 

 the under parts. 



