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and front and sides of neck dark reddish chestnut; sides of head white ; top of 

 head and feathers around base of bill sooty; upper parts blackish, the 

 feathers broadly margined with tawny or buff; wings grayish brown, a 

 broad band of white through the secondaries and tip of greater coverts;, 

 primaries blackish, the shafts white; bill yellowish tipped with dusky; 

 feet yellowish; eyes dark. Male: Similar but much duller. Winter 

 plumage: Light pearly gray above; head and under parts white; a dusky 

 space about the eye, and blackish crescent on the back part of the crown;, 

 bill and feet mostly dusky. Young: Upper parts similar to summer male ; 

 under parts white tinged with buff on throat and breast. 



Length 7.5-8.8 inches; extent 14. 5-16; wing 5-5.5; tail 2.4-2.5; tarsus. 

 .75-.8;bill.8-.9. 



This species is of holarctic distribution, breeding far north and migrat- 

 ing southward to temperate regions in winter. In New York it is rather 

 uncommon. There are about 20 records of its occurrence, 8 of these being 

 from the interior, as follows : 



Flushing, L. I. Aug. about 1870. Robert Lawrence, N. O. C. Bui. 5:117 

 Shinnecock bay, L. I. May 14, 1883. Butcher, Auk, i: 33 



Sept. 26, 1885. G. E. Payne, Auk, 3: 436 

 Montauk, L. I. Sept. 1886. Butcher, Auk, 3: 134 



r? 9 . Oct. 22, 1888. Butcher, Auk, 3: 134 

 Quogue, L. I. Butcher, Auk, 3: 134; Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 245 

 Amityville, L. I. Nov. 28, 1888. (Chichester). Butcher 

 Montauk, L. I. May 20, 1892. 2 9 . (Scott). " 



Montauk Light, L. L Oct. 21, 1894. 9. 



Apr. 30, 1898. (2d',7?). (Miller). Butcher 

 Montauk Point Light, L. I. Nov. 27, 1902. Braislin, Auk, 21: 289 



" Sept. 24, 1903. Braislin, Birds of Long Island, p. 57 



Oneida Lake, N. Y. Oct. 4, 1889. Bagg, Auk, 7: 230 

 Niagara river, N. Y. Oct. 1892. James Savage, Auk, 12: 313 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 9 . Sept. 26, 1894. 

 South Buffalo, N. Y. Oct. 31, 1896. James Savage 



" Nov. 1897. 



Keuka lake, Yates co., N. Y. James Flahive Collection 



Auburn, N. Y. (William Hopkins). Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. Proc. 1856. 5: 13 

 Fourth lake, Herkimer co. Sept. 25, 1904. 9 . (Robert McPhail). E. H. Eaton Collec- 

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