58 Brewster's Descriptions of the First Plumage 



Rest uf upper parts, including wing-coverts and sides of head, light olive- 

 brown. Lull- dull black. Superciliary line, both eyelids, throat, jugulum 

 abdominal ami anal regions, with crissum, light buff. Breast and -ides 

 olive, tinged with hull'. Spol on base of primaries dirty-white. From two 

 specimens, male and female, in my collection, shut with parents at Upton, 

 Me., August 11, 1873. The male above described shows a few black 

 feathers on one side of the throat. Several adult females in my collec- 

 tion, taken both in spring and fall, lack the white wing-patch altogether. 

 Others have it but faintly indicated. 



28. Dendrceca coronata. 

 First •plumage: female. Upper parts, in general, dull grayish-white, 

 tinged with brownish, heavily streaked with slaty-black, the streaks 

 broadesl on the hack and narrowest on the pileum ; rump soiled white, 

 with well-defined streak ings like the hack. Lower parts pale lemon, 

 tinged with brownish on the throat, narrowly but distinctly streaked with 

 dull black over the entire surface. From a specimen in my collection, 

 shot at Upton, Me., Augusl 7, L874. The first plumage of no other bird 

 that I am acquainted with exhibits such a remarkable variation from the 

 more mature stages. The specimen just* described resembles closely, in 

 general markings and coloration, the Pine Finch {Ghrysomitris firms). 

 As is well illustrated by a full suite of specimens in transitional - 

 the yellow of the rump is acquired early in the first moult, which is very 

 nearly completed, in most cases, before that of the crown appears. 



29. Dendrceca blackburniae. 

 First 'plumage: male and female. Remiges, rectrices, etc., as in au- 

 tumnal adult ; rest "1' upper parts uniform dark brown, each feathei on 

 the back edged with light bull'; the white scapular stripe poorly denned. 

 lb-ad markings precisely similar in pattern to the adults', but with the 

 orange everywhere replaced by white, slightly tinged with buff on dob- 



terior half of superciliary line. Throat and entire under parts, in the 

 male, tleai' white, tinged with pale yellow, each feather (excepting on 

 throat) spotted terminally with black. From two specimens in my col- 

 Lection taken at Upton, Me., August "'and <;. ls?4. Oik- of these, the 

 male, has a Few orange leathers on the throat, indicating the coming fall 

 plums 



" Young in autumn. Above similar to the adult female in fall plumage, 

 but more olivaceous ; all the markings less distinct. Superciliary stripe 

 and entile lower parts, except the crissum, pale yellowish-buff, hardly 

 brighter on the jugulum. Sides very faintlj streaked with grayish. In 

 m\ collection (No. L003), Mt. Carmel, ilk. Augusl 15, 1870." R. R. 



30. Dendrceca castanea. 

 First plumage: female. Remiges, rectrices, primary covert-, ami alulse 

 as in adult. Pileum, nape, and rump dull brown ; back dull olive-green ; 



