42 Brewster's Descriptions of the First Plumage 



109. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. 

 First plumage. Top and sides of head, with the neck behind, buffy-cin- 

 narnon. A post-ocular stripe and two lateral ones on the crown dark- 

 brown ; a few of the feathers with lighter edgings. Rest of upper parts, 

 including the tips of the wing-coverts and the outer margins of the prima- 

 ries and secondaries, brownish-yellow. All the feathers of the interscapular 

 region with broad dark-brown centres. Under parts warm reddish-buff, 

 deepest on breast and throat. A band of faint dusky spots across the 

 breast, and a few nearly obsolete streaks along the sides. From a speci- 

 men in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, collected by Mr. C. J. May- 

 Hard, at Newtonville, Mass., June 26, 1878. The autumnal plumage of 

 this species seems to be very early acquired. 



110. Tyrannus verticalis. 

 First plumage : male. Above similar to the adult, but with the crown 

 patch entirely wanting, the ash-gray of that part washed with brown, and 

 the back uniform grayish-olive. The wing-coverts are also tipped with 

 brownish-fulvous and the secondaries margined with greenish-yellow. The 

 outer webs of the outer rectrices are yellowish-white. Throat ashy-white ; 

 rest of under parts similar to adult, with the yellow of a deeper shade and 

 extending higher up on the breast. From a specimen in my cabinet col- 

 lected by Mr. C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., July 8, 1878. 



111. Myiarchus ciuerascens. 

 First plumage. Above olive-gray tinged with brown on the crown. 

 Wing-bands brownish-white. Outer edges of the primaries and most of 

 the secondaries chestnut-brown. Tail-feathers reddish-chestnut, with a 

 dull black longitudinal band next the shaft on both webs of the central 

 pair, and on the outer web of all the rest. Beneath similar to the adult, 

 the ashy on the breast perhaps a trifle deeper. From a specimen in my 

 cabinet taken by Mr. C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., August 2G, 1878. 



112. Sayornis nigricans. 

 First plumage : male. Head, and neck all around, sooty black, darker 

 than in the adult. Wing-bands and bend of wings rusty, the tips of the 

 primaries, secondaries, and rectrices, and the feathers of the interscapular 

 region, rump, and crissum, with the posterior margin of the black on the 

 breast, more or less strongly washed with brownish or rusty-fulvous. 

 Otherwise similar to the adult. From a specimen in my cabinet taken 

 by Mr. C. A. Allen at Nicasio, Cal., June 29, 1878. 



113. Glaucidium passerinum californicum. 

 Autumnal plumage: young. Similar to adult male, but with the whole 

 top anil sides of head and the neck behind ashy-plumbeous, tinged with 

 olive-brown, and entirely unspotted. The band across the throat also dif- 



