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black at rear; belly white. Plumage of immature male : under wing coverts 

 red ; wing bands buff ; wings and tail black ; head, neck and back brown, 

 streaked with black ; throat and sides brownish, streaked with black ; other- 

 wise similar to adult. Plumage of female : brownish above, streaked with 

 dusky, more or less margined on feathers with buffy ; whitish line over eye 

 and buffy line through center of crown ; wings and tail grayish brown, the 

 wing coverts white tipped, two nearly white wing bars being present ; under 

 wing coverts orange ; below more or less buffy, streaked with dusky. Wing 

 4.00 ; culmen 0.70 ; tail 3.20. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to Manitoba and the Plains ; 

 breeding from Kansas and the higher mountains of the Carolinas north to 

 New Brunswick and Manitoba ; wintering in Central and South America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; fairly common summer resident, (John- 

 son). Aroostook; rather common at Fort Fairfield, (Batchelder, B. N. O. C. 

 7, p. 148) ; not known by me save in the southern half of the county and 

 very local there, (Knight). Cumberland : common summer resident, (Mead). 

 Franklin; common summer resident, (Richards). Hancock; rare, (Dorr). 

 Kennebec; common summer resident, (Gardiner Branch). Knox; rare 

 migrant, (Rackliff). Oxford; common breeder, (Nash). Penobscot; rare 

 summer resident in southern section, but locally common in northern sec- 

 tions, (Knight). Piscataquis; not uncommon, breeds, (Homer); locally 

 common in the Pleasant River Valley, (Knight). Sagadahoc; five specimens, 

 (Spinney). Somerset; not common resident, (Morrell); locally common in 

 Moose River region, (Knight). Waldo ; very rare summer resident, (Knight). 

 Washington; rare summer resident, (Boardman). York; quite abundant, 

 (Adams). 



In spring the species appears in Maine from May sixteenth 

 to the twenty-first and the last stragglers seem to be gone in 

 late August, August twenty-seventh being the latest at Bangor 

 that I have seen the species. The distribution in Maine is 

 peculiar in that the species is rare along the coast and in 

 certain of the central portions of the State, while north it again 

 is locally common. South and west of the Kennebec River it 

 is reported as common to fairly common. After crossing the 

 Kennebec River the species becomes rather rare in southern 

 Somerset and southern Penobscot County. East of the Penob- 

 scot River it is equally rare until near Carroll, Winn and 

 Danforth, when the species is locally common to our eastern 

 boundaries. While usually rare in southern Penobscot County, 

 only an occasional specimen being seen as a rule, there occur 

 times at intervals of twenty years or so when it is common. 



