22 Brewster's Descriptions of First Plumages. 



17. Troglodytes parvulua var. hyemalis. 

 First plumage : male. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in adult ; rest of 

 upper parts dark reddish-brown, becoming more dusky anteriorly : no 

 trace of bars except on wings and tail. Beneath dull smoky-brown, 

 with a strong ferruginous suffusion on sides, anal region, and crissum ; 

 every feather of under parts with a bar of dark brown. From a specimen 

 in my collection taken at Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. 



18. Telmatodytea palustris. 



First plumage : female. Entire pileum, nape, and interscapular region 

 dull black ; no white streaking or spots ; otherwise like adult. From 

 specimen in my collection taken at Cambridge, August 10, 1873. 



19. Cistothorus stellaris. 

 Autumnal plumage : young male. Above similar to adult, but darker, 

 especially on nape and pileum. Throat and abdomen light buff ; breast, 

 sides, anal region, and crissum rusty-brown, paler and with white tip- 

 pings to the feathers anteriorly. From a specimen in my collection shot 

 at Cambridge, Mass., September 19, 1870. 



20. Mniotilta varia. 



" First plumage. Similar in general appearance to the adult female, but 

 markings, especially the two stripes of the pileum and the streaks beneath, 

 much less sharply defined ; the streaks of the breast indistinct grayish- 

 dusky, suffused with pale fulvous, those of the back more strongly tinged 

 with rusty. The two stripes on the pileum dull grayish-dusky, instead 

 of deep black. From a specimen in my collection obtained near Wash- 

 ington, July, 1876." — R. R. 



21. Parula americana. 

 "First plumage: male. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. Pi- 

 leum, nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull gray, tinged with olive 

 anteriorly and with blue posteriorly, the back with more or less of an 

 indistinct patch of olive-green ; throat and eyelids grayish- white, abdo- 

 men, anal region, and crissum pure white : jogolum and sides of breast 



pale ash-gray. From two s] imens obtained at Mt. Carmel, 111., July 



17, 1871, Nos. l ir>7 and lot;:), my collection. Both of these show a large 

 patch of bright gamboge-yellow on the breast, these feathers denoting the 

 commencement of the adult plumage. One of them also has the chin 

 and an indistinct supraloral line tinged with yellow." — R. R. 



22. Protonotaria citrea. 

 "First plumage. Remiges, rectrices. primary coverts, and alula) as in 

 the adult. Entire abdomen, anal region, and crissum white ; head, neck, 

 back, and jugulum pale grecnish-nlive, the throat and jugulum paler ami 



