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Richmond has allowed me tlie use of four skins from the Pacific 

 coast; and Mr. P. A. Taverner has sent me two skins from the 

 Mctoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa; these with fourteen Ontario 

 skins from my own collection will be used in discussing the rela- 

 tionship between the type of scoioea and the other Queen Charlotte 

 Island birds. Three of these are adult females, taken on the fol- 

 lowing dates in 1915, September 19, October 20, November 5, the 

 fourth a juvenile male taken June 18. 



An adult female (September 19) is colored as follows, under- 

 neath — between sayal brown ^ and tawny olive, the usual 

 streaks are prouts brown, the whole producing a deep cinnamon 

 effect; the superciliaries cinnamon buff, becoming clove brown on 

 the ear coverts; the tarsi and toes are cinnamon buff; above — 

 clove lH-own*iuiiform except for the spots on the lower hind neck, 

 which are cinnamon buff, the feathers of the forehead only with 

 a few shaft streaks of the same color; the tail darker than the back, 

 the usual spots are white, small, and often only present on the inner 

 wel)b and each feather has a narrow white tip ; the wings are like 

 the tail but edged with prouts brown, the spots on the outer edges 

 of the primaries are few, small, and are colored from cinnamon buff 

 to lighter; the greater coverts have one spot of white visible, with 

 smaller concealed ones, the. spots on the secondaries are nearly 

 white; the under wing coverts and bend of the wing are cinnamon 

 buff. The October female is like the September one, but the 

 November female is darker beneath, the prouts brown streaks are 

 wider. 



That the plumage just described is not sexual, is I think, proved 

 by the juvenile male (in the sp-called Kirtland's Owl stage) this is 

 much darker everywhere, except for the white superciliaries, than 

 an Ontario juvenile male of May 15. Above including the head 

 uniform clove brown much darker even than the adult (almost 

 sooty black), superciliary region and anterior portion of forehead 

 clear white, the feathers of the latter bordered with clove brown, 

 the ear coverts almost black; beneath — fore neck and breast 

 clove brown, a little lighter in the middle; abdomen clear sayal 

 l«-own; wings and tail as in the adult; tarsi sayal brown, the 



1 Ridfiway, Nomenclature of Colors, 1912, is used throughout. 



