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and front and sides of neck dark reddish chcstmit; sides of head white; top of 

 head and feathers around base of bill sooty; upper parts blackish, the 

 feathers broadly margined with tawny or buff; wings grayish brown, a 

 broad band of white through the secondaries and tip of gi-eater coverts; 

 primaries blackish, the shafts white; bill yellowish tipped with dusky; 

 feet yellowish; eyes dark. Male: Similar but much duller. Winter 

 plumage: Light pearly gray above; head and binder parts white; a dusky 

 space about the eye, and blackish crescent on the back part of the crown;, 

 bill and feet mostly dusky. Young: Upper parts similar to summer male; 

 under parts white tinged with buff on throat and breast. 



Length 7.5-8.8 inches; extent 14. 5-16; wing 5-5.5; tail 2.4-2.5; tarsus 

 .7 5-. 8; bin .8-. 9. 



This species is of holarctic distribution, breeding far north and migrat- 

 ing southward to temperate regions in winter. In New York it is rather 

 uncommon. There are about 20 records of its occurrence, 8 of these being 

 from the interior, as follows : 



Flushing, L. I. Aug. about 1870. Robert Lawrence, N. O. C. Bui. 5:117 

 Shinnecock bay, L. I. May 14, 1883. Butcher, Auk, i : 2,^ 



Sept. 26, 1885. G. E. Payne, Auk, 3; 436 

 Montauk, L. I. Sept. 1886. Butcher, Auk, 3: 134 



d" 9 . Oct. 22, 1888. Butcher, Auk, 3; 134 

 Quogue, L. I. Butcher, Auk, 3: 134; Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 245 

 Amityvillc, L. I. Nov. 28, 1888. (Chichester). Butcher 

 Montauk, L. L May 20, 1892. 2 9 . (Scott). " 



Montauk Light, L. L Oct. 21, 1894. 9. 



Apr. 30, 1898. (20^,79). (Miller). Butcher 

 Montauk Point Light, L. L Nov. 27, 1902. Braislin, Auk, 21: 289 



" Sept. 24, 1903. Braislin, Birds of Long Island, p. 57 



Oneida Lake, N. Y. Oct. 4, 1889. Bagg, Auk, 7: 230 

 Niagara river, N. Y. Oct. 1892. James Savage, Auk, 12: 313 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 9 . Sept. 26, 1894. 

 South Buffalo, N. Y. Oct. 31, 1896. James Savage 



Nov. 1897. 

 Keuka lake, Yates co., N. Y. James Flahive Collection 



Auburn, N. Y. (William Hopkins). Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 1856. 5: 13 

 Fourth lake, Herkimer co. Sept. 25, 1904. 9 . (Robert McPhail). E. H. Eaton Collec- 

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