166 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
feathers scattered among the black ones, and also by the white 
forehead. In the perfect breeding plumage these white feathers 
would probably be absent. 
Adult Female tn Summer.—Entire plumage of body, ochrace- 
ous, palest on the throat, blotched and barred on the back with 
black, and the feathers having white tips; on the breast and 
flanks the black blotches are much fewer, but the black bars are 
broader, and there are no white tips on the breast feathers, but 
those on the abdomen and some on the flanks are broadly tipped 
with white; under tail-coverts, ochraceous, barred with black ; 
the tertials, inner secondaries, and some of the greater wing- 
coverts, ochraceous, like the back, barred and tipped with white; 
remainder of wing and primaries, pure white, with the shafts of 
the latter, pale brown; bill and claws, black. Total length, 
123 inches; wing, 6,%;; tail, 44; tarsus, 13; exposed culmen, 3. 
In winter both sexes turn white. 
