1 66 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



feathers scattered among the black ones, and also by the white 

 forehead. In the perfect breeding plumage these white feathers 

 would probably be absent. 



Adult Female in Su??i7ner. — Entire plumage of body, ochrace- 

 ous, palest on the throat, blotched and barred on the back with 

 black, and the feathers having white tips; on the breast and 

 flanks the black blotches are much fewer, but the black bars are 

 broader, and there are no white tips on the breast feathers, but 

 those on the abdomen and some on the flanks are broadly tipped 

 with white; under tail-coverts, ochraceous, barred with black; 

 the tertials, inner secondaries, and some of the greater wing- 

 coverts, ochraceous, like the back, barred and tipped with white; 

 remainder of wing and primaries, pure white, with the shafts of 

 the latter, pale brown; bill and claws, black. Total length, 

 I2f inches; wing, 6j%; tail, 4|; tarsus, i|; exposed culmen, ^^. 



In winter both sexes turn white. 



