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feathers, which are dull grayish yellow, sprinkled with black 

 Sides of the neck spotted with white. Under parts white, 

 streaked with brownish-red, transversely and undulatingly barred 

 with black. Sides and under tail coverts, reddish. 



" Length, 10 inches ; extent of wings, 15 ; bill along the 

 back, I, along the gap, j\ ; tarsus | ; middle toe nearly the 

 same. 



" Young Mule. 



" Similar to the adult male in the general distribution of the 

 colors, but the white of the head and throat bright reddish- 

 yellow ; the back of the fore-neck and sides of the head, deep 

 brown ; the under parts less pure and more dusky ; and the tail 

 of a duller gray. 



" Adult Female. 



" The female resembles the young male, but is more deci- 

 dedly colored ; the bill darker, the head of a more uniform and 

 richer reddish-yellow ; the sides of the neck spotted with yel- 

 low and black. 



" Young Female. 



" The young females are somewhat smaller and lighter in 

 their tints than the young males. 



" Very young Birds. 



" Bill brownish-yellow. Iris light hazel. The general color 

 of the upper parts, light yellowish-brown, patched with gray j 

 sides of the head dusky." — Audubon's Birds of America. 



" This well known bird is a general inhabitant of North 

 America, from the northern parts of Canada and Nova Scotia, 

 in which latter place it is said to be migratory to the extremity 

 of the peninsula of Florida, and was seen in the neighborhood 

 of the Great Osage Village in the interior of Louisiana. They 

 are numerous in Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. Pennant remarks 

 that they have been lately introduced into the Island of Jamaica, 

 where they appear to thrive greatly, breeding in that warm 

 climate twice in the year. Capt. Henderson mentions them as 

 being plenty near the Belize, at the Bay of Honduras. They 



