Pit 'I I). E - TIIK WooDl'KCKHHS. 





tliis respect only, wliile an adult female, IVoni Wasliin^ton, I). V. (Xo. lJ,LMj(), 

 C Drexler), has the hnwr ])art of tlie throat nmeh mixed with red. 



Takiii!,' next the spt'einieus fmni the Koeky Mountains and Mitldle Prov- 

 ince of flie United States (*S'. inu]i((lif<), we find that (ill the specimens pos- 

 sess both these additional amounts of the red, there heini^ always a red, in- 

 stead of dirty-white, nuehal ereseent, while in the female the low(.*r [lart of 

 the throat is always more or less red ; in addition, the male has the red (tf 

 the throat reaching laterally to the white strii)e, thus interrupting the Mack 

 malar one, which is always unbroken in the eastern form ; and in addition, 

 the auricular^i are freciuently mixed with red. Troceeding towards the ( 'oluni- 

 bia Jfiver, we find the red increasing, or esca})ing the limits to wliich it is 

 confined in the normal pattern, staining the white and Idaek areas in differ- 

 ent places, and tingeing the whitish which Itorders the black pectoral area. 



Lvstly, in the series from the Pacific coast {S. ruber), we find the whole 

 normal ]»attern rendered scarcely definable — sometimes entirely obliterated 

 — by the extension of the red, which covei*s continuously tlie whole head, 

 neck, and breast ; but nearly always the normal pattern may be traced, the 

 featliers of the normally black areas l>eing dusky beneath the surface, and 

 those of the usual white strii)es very white for the conceal(Ml ]iortion. 

 l^sually, in this form, the red of the breast covers only the black pectoral 

 area; l>ut in extreme specimens it reaches back to the middle of tlu' Imdy 

 benciitii, and stains the white spots of the back. 



With the increase of the red as we proceed westward, there is also a de- 

 crease in the amount of white al)ove ; thus, in ofrii'^i the whole l)ack is 

 irregularly spotted witli di^ty white and Idack, — tlie former predominating, 

 the latter most cons])icuous as a medial, broken broad stripe, — and the 

 latenil tail-feathers are much variegated by white spots. In mnhtf/is the 

 back is mostly unbroken- glossy-black, with two parallel narrou- strii)es of 

 white converging at their lower ends; and the lateml tail-feather is almost 

 wholly black, having merely a narrow white border toward the end. *S'. rnJtcr 

 is most like nuvhalis, but has the white still more restricted. 



In varius the bill is dark brown, in uuihuJia it is deep black, and in rnhrr 

 wax-brown. In varius the yellow of the lower parts is deepest, in uuchalis 

 just appreciable. 



Species and Varieties. 



A* Wing witli a white patch on tho mitldkj and greater coverts. Markings 

 alona: tho siiles with a lontiitudinal tendency. 



1. S. varius. I>ack variegated medially with hrownish-whitc ; secondariGS 

 with transverse rows of white spots. 



WJiife and hhirlx stripes on side of hernJ sharplji ((ejh^ed. as is also 



the blnch perfi)ritl crescent. Red confined to isrlated patches, — fii'o 



Jarffe ones, one on the crow. i and one on the throat: vhen twre is 



more, onfi/ a tinqe on the avri'idars. and a crescent on nape. 



Crown sonu'times glossy Mack witlioiit a trace of red on the female; 



no tinue of scarlet on the nape. lied of the throat entirely contined 



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