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2. A. couesi. Breeding dress : Pileum streaked with deep rusty ; 

 scapulars and interscapulars broadly bordered with bright ferruginous ; 

 foreneck and jugulum iiTegularly clouded with dull pale buff or soiled 

 white and sooty plumbeous, the breast more coarsely clouded, with more 

 or less of a black patch on each side. Winter dress: Similar to maritima, 

 but with the plumbeous borders to dorsal feathers broader and lighter, 

 or more bluish, in tint ; jugulum streaked or otherwise varied with white. 

 Young, first plumage : Scapulars and interscapulars conspicuously bordered 

 with bright rusty, ochraceous, and whitish ; wing-coverts broadly bordered 

 with buffy-white or pale buff ; breast and sides buffy-wliite, distinctly 

 streaked with dusky. Chick: Above bright rusty fulvous, irregularly mar- 

 bled with black, the ornamental velvety flecks or papillse coarser and less 

 pure white than in maritima ; head light fulvous, with markings as in 

 maritima : lower parts distinctly fulvous laterally. Average measurements 

 of 14 adults: Wing, 4.86; culmen, 1.13; tarsus, 0.95; middle toe, 0.86. 

 Hab., Aleutian Islands and contiguous coast of Alaska. 



3. A. ptilocnemis. Breeding dress : Pileum broadly streaked with 

 ochraceous-buff ; scapulars and interscapulars broadly bordered with bright 

 ochraceous-rufous ; foreneck and jugulum pure white, sparsely streaked 

 with brownish gray ; breast white, streaked anteriorly, and clouded pos- 

 teriorly, with dusky, the latter forming more or less of a patch on each side. 

 Winter d7-ess: In general character similar to the corresponding stage of 

 A. maritima and A. couesi, but very much paler, the whole dorsal aspect 

 being light cinereous, the scapulars and interscapulars with small, nearly 

 concealed, central spots, the Aving-coverts very broadly edged with pure 

 white; jugulum with white largely predominating. Young, first plumage : 

 Similar to A. couesi, but colors throughout much paler, the light borders 

 to the feathers of the dorsal surface broader, the dark centres correspond- 

 ingly decreased. Chick: Similar to that of A. couesi, but paler, the dark 

 streaks on the lores not reaching to the eye. Average measurements ofi 13 

 adults: Wing, 5.16; culmen, 1.33; tarsus, 0.98; middle toe, 0.90. Hub., 

 Prybilov Islands, Alaska. 



LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE ISLAND OF SANTA LUCIA, 

 WEST INDIES. 



BY J. A. ALLEN. 



The ornithology of none of the Windward Islands is probably 

 better known than that of Santa Lucia, for which fact thanks are 

 due almost exclusively to Dr. P. L. Sclater and Kev. John Semper. 



