826 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL 3IUSEUM. voi-.xxiv. 
mm.; tarsus, 20.5-22.5 (average, 21.6) mm.; middle toe, LI 12 
(average, 11.7) mm. 
Tt/pe locallt;/. — Richland County, Illinois. 
Geograj)]rlc(il (11sti'lhiitM))i. — In summer, southern Canada from 
Manitoba to the north shore of the Cxulf of St. Lawrence, together 
with the northeastern United States from Maine, Long Island and 
Pennsylvania west to eastern Kansas and Nebraska; in winter, south 
to the Carolinas, Kentucky and Texas, casually west to Colorado, 
and even Arizona. 
Descnption. — Adult male In hreeding plumage. — Type, No. 90763 
U.S.N.M.; Richland County, Illinois, May 16, 1883; R. Ridgway.— 
Center of crown, occiput, nape, superior tail-coverts and bend of wing 
pinkish vinaceous, rather more cinnaiuomeous on the two last; back, 
wings and two middle tail-feathers fuscous, edged with buHy; rest of 
tail brownish black, the outer pair of feathers with whitish external 
margins; forepart of crown, horns, lores, cheeks and jugular crescent 
black; forehead and superciliary stripe dull white; throat and sides of 
upper jugulum pale primrose 3'ellow; rest of lower parts white, the 
sides shaded with cinnamon and streaked with dull brown. 
Adult female In hreeding phiiiiage. — No. 121861, U.S.N.M. ; Green 
Bay, Wisconsin, June 18, 1890; C. W. Richmond. — Above sepia brown 
narrowly streaked with buffy, the nape dull Imti'y ochraceous streaked 
with fuscous, the rump dull cinnamon; wings fuscous, margined with 
buffy, and on bend of wing with cinnamon; middle pair of tail-feathers 
like wings, the rest brownish ))lack, the outer pair edged externally 
with whitish; forehead and superciliary dull white; lores and cheeks 
blackish, mixed with brownish; throat pale A^ellow; black of jugulum 
less extensive than in the male; remainder of lower surface dull white, 
the sides cinnamon streaked with dark brown. 
Adtdt malein winter phimage. — No. 150628, U.S.N.M. ; Washington, 
District of Columbia, February 3, 1895; R. S. Matthews.— Similar to 
the breeding male, but colors above duller, more blended, the pinkish 
of nape almost entirely obscured; black areas with grayish tips to the 
feathers; bend of wing more pinkish; y(?llow of throat deeper; breast 
much streaked with dusky. 
Adult female in winter 2)lumage. — No. 117373, U.S.N.M.; Chester, 
South Carolina, December 7, 1889; L. M. Loomis. — Like the sunmier 
female, but paler and more ochraceous above; black areas much 
obscured; throat paler yellow, breast heavily marked with dusky; 
sides more deeply tinged with cinnamomeous. 
Young in first j)lumage. — No. 162^97, U.S.N.M.; Port Clinton, 
Ohio, Jul}^ 10, 1893; E. M. Hasbrouck. — Above verj^ dark brownish 
black, anteriorly with streaks, posteriorly bars of ochraceous, and 
spots of bufiy white ajid ochraceous; wings sepia, margined with buffy 
white and ochraceous; tail sepia, edged exteriorly with ochraceous 
