162 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
central feathers; greater wing-coverts, scapulars, and innermost 
secondaries like the back; rest of wing, pure white, with black 
shafts to the primaries; the throat is white, sides of face and 
breast, like the head and neck, but the breast and flanks are 
more finely barred and vermiculated, while scattered about the 
sides of head and along the flanks are many white feathers; rest 
of under parts, thighs, and tarsi, pure white; loral space, black; 
a crimson or scarlet comb over the eye; bill, black; claws, 
horn color, with white tips. Total length, 133 inches; wing, 72; 
tail, 48; tarsus, 17;; exposed culmen, 3. 
It is possible that this specimen is not in what may be called 
perfect summer plumage, as the throat is white. This part 
would undoubtedly, for a few days at least, be colored like the 
neck, but the plumage of these birds varies so from day to day 
that it is only by accident that one is procured in what may be 
termed the full and perfect summer dress. 
Female in Summer.—Head and entire upper parts, and most 
of the wing, ochraceous, barred with black, the bars narrower 
and more numerous on lower back and upper tail-coverts, with 
most of the feathers tipped with white; primaries and second- 
aries, white, the former with blackish brown shafts; throat, 
neck, breast, flanks, and under parts, generally including under 
tail-coverts, ochraceous, barred irregularly and narrowly with 
black ; tail, clove-brown, with outer web finely mottled with buff 
for two-thirds the basal length of central feathers, and growing 
gradually less on the lateral ones ; bill, black ; claws, black, with 
white tips. Total length, 134 inches; wing, 72; tail, 48; tarsus, 1}. 
Winter Plumage is pure white, with black loral streak in the 
male. 
