116 BREWSTER'S Descriptions of the First Plumage 



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 with white. Rest of upper parts uniformly blue-gray, tinged with cinna- 

 mon. Throat, cheeks, and pectoral region anteriorly, very pale, yellow. 

 Rest of under parts silky-white. From a specimen in my collection ob- 

 tained at Cambridge, Mass., June 30, 1871. 



51. Vireo solitarius. 



First plumage: female. Upper parts dark ashy, becoming lighter on 

 the rump, and washed strongly with olive-green on the interscapular re- 

 gion. Abdominal region and throat soiled white, the latter with a faint 

 ashy tinge. Sides and crissum pale greenish-yellow. A V-shaped patch 

 of fawn-color on the lower pectoral region. From a specimen in my col- 

 lection shot at Upton, Me., August 23, 1873. 



This bird is in transitional dress, being slightly past the first plumage. 



52. Vireo noveboracensis. 



First plumage : female. Entire upper parts brownish-olive ; wing-hands 

 pale fulvous. Throat, cheeks, and breast fulvous-ash. Central portions 

 of abdominal and anal regions soiled white. Sides and crissum pale yel- 

 low, tinged with huff. Otherwise similar to the adult. From a specimen 

 in my collection obtained at Cambridge, Mass., July 20, 1871. 



53. Pinicola enucleator. 



First plumage: male. Forehead, crown, cheeks, and throat dull yel- 

 lowish-brown, lightest <>n the throat, with a few blood-red feathers inter- 

 mixed on the forehead and cheeks. A dusky line through the lores. 

 Occiput and interscapular region purplish olive-brown ; nape a lighter 

 -hade of the s.une color j 1 a il-roverts and rump dull yellowish-red ; wing- 

 bande and edging of secondaries light wood-brown : entire under parts 

 reddish-brown, lightest on abdomen, most pronounced on breast and sides. 

 From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, Me., August ^7. 1^74. 



Young birds in the second or autumnal plumage exhibit almost endless 

 variations of coloring. The males may be distinguished in most cases ), v 

 the coppery-red on the crown and rump ; but some females have the 

 ordinary brownish-yellow on those parts, strongly tinged with red. One 

 young male in my collection exhibits a broad pectoral band of light rose- 

 color mixed with reddish-yellow. 



54. Carpodacus purpureus. 

 First plumage: female. Above dark brown, shading to lighter on the 



rump, each feather edged with light reddish-brown. The ton-head and 

 supra Loral line streaked with grayish. Under parte dull white, thickly 

 Btreaked everywhere, excepl on crissum and anal region, with very dark 

 brown. From a specimen in my collection taken at Cambridge, July 9, 

 1^7:;. Although this bird is in strictly first plumage, it differs scarcely 

 appn ciably in coloring from autumnal specimens. 



