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BIRD NAMES. 



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larly with brown or brownish black* (" Muddy -breast " now); 

 top of head dark ; the stripe over the eye light, but not white ; 

 remaining upper plumage much as in the breeding dress, but 

 more dull in tone. 



Young (reaching us, the greater part of them, a little later 

 than the adults). Upper parts dark brown and brownish gray 

 speckled with yellow and dull white ; the yellow showing no- 

 ticeably on the crown, nape, and lower back (all the speckles of 

 the lower back yellow) ; head and neck streakily marked, the 



neck lighter in color than top of head or back ; sides of head and 

 all around base of bill white or whitish streakily marked with 

 dusky. Under parts of plumage and sides of neck dull white 

 freckled with brownish gray, the chin pure white, the brownish 

 gray markings much paler on the lower surface of body, particu- 

 larly about the abdomen, and nearly or wholly disappearing in 

 neighborhood of vent. 



* These blackish markings wholly disappearing in winter, at which time 

 the plumage throughout is practically that of the young bird. 



