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General Notes. 



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It will be noticed that mj bird differs chief!}' in having a rather darker 

 plumage, white feathers on the nape, and a loral and mental white patch. 

 The white on the chin I believe to be simply an individual peculiarity, 

 but the other differences are possibly characteristic of the fully adult 

 female. 



Another adult female in my collei'tion (Xo. 133S) taken at Stony 

 Creek, Conn., Dec. 18, 1894, differs from tiiis l)ircl only in the following 

 respects. Many feathers approaching hair brown and tipped with whit- 

 ish on back, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail; lower parts a mixtiu-e of 

 sooty brown and broccoli brown, the latter predominating, the feathers 

 tipped with whitish especially on the chest. .Nuchal white feathering 

 much more extended and distinct; white of chin replaced by hair brown; 

 space between loral and ain-icular white patches only slightly darker than 

 rest of neck. The brown feathers, particularly on the tail and upper parts, 

 are much worn, while the blackish feathers are fresh and unabraded, 

 leading mc to think that the black feathers were replacing the brown. 



While in Cambridge in the fall of 1893, Mr. William Brewster kindly 

 showed me his series of this species, among which were several females 

 with tiie white feathering on the nape quite distinct, and Mr. George II. 



