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PRJECOCIAL GRALLATUIIES — LIMICOL.E. 



exclusively, north of the United States. The race occidentalis is chiefly restricted to the Western 

 Province oi' North America ; the typical ^jusiHhs entirely confined to the Eastern Province. 



Sp. Char. Total length, about 5.75 to 6.50 ; e.\tent, 11.00 to 12.00 ; wing, 3..5t)-4.00; culraen, 

 .08-1.15 ; tarsus, .80-.95 ; middle toe, .55-65.1 gj^ black, becoming greenish olive on basal part 

 of the mandible ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet greenish olive. Rump slate-color ; upper tail- 

 coverts and middle tail-feathers dusky, other rectrices cinereous ; wing-coverts and tertials brown- 

 ish gray with dusky shaft-streaks, the greater coverts tipped with white. Superciliary stripe and 

 lower parts white, the former finely streaked with grayish dusky. Upper parts (except as 

 described) variegated brown, black and rusty in summer adults and young, plain ashy with dusky 

 shaft-streaks in winter plumage. 



Summer adult and young: Above brownish, varied with black, rusty, and white (the latter on 

 the terminal borders of the feathers — sometimes almost wanting) ; beneath white, the jugulum 

 streaked or spotted with dusky in the adult, shaded with grayisli butt' in young. JVinter plumage : 

 Above, uniform ashy, finely streaked with dusky ; l^elow, pure white. 



a. pusillus. 



Adult breeding-plumage : Upper surface light grayish brown, the sides of the pileuni and edges 

 of some of the scapulars and interscapulars tinged with pale butty cinnamon, but this sometimes 

 almost wholly absent ; pileum heavily streaked, and dorsal region heavily spotted, with black, the 

 latter color occupying the central portion of each feather. A streaked white superciliary stripe, 

 and dusky loral space, the latter usually very distinctly defined along its upper edge, the lower 

 part broken into streaks, which extend backward over the cheeks ; auriculars streaked grayish 



lirown. Lower parts pure white, the jugulum and breast tinged with ashy and streaked with 

 dusky. Winter plumage : Above brownish gray or cinereous, relieved by dusky shaft-streaks ; 

 superciliary stripe and low'er parts pure white, the jugulum faintly streaked. Young : Similar to 

 the summer adult, but jugulum tinged with pale grayisli buft', and without well-defined streaks or 

 spots, the, scapulars and interscapulars bordered terminally with white, and the brown usually less 

 rusty. Downy young: Forehead dingy white, divided by a mesial line of black ; crown light 

 chestnut, marbled posteriorly with black and white ; occiput mottled whitish. A distinct loral 

 line of black, forking just before the eye, the upper branch running toward the anterior corner of 

 the eye, the other inclining downward. Throat fulvous-white ; other lower parts whitish, nearly 

 pure on the abdomen. Upper parts pale fulvous-brown laterally, black centrally, the whole surface 

 thickly bespangled with fine downy tufts, terminating the down-filaments. 



Wing, .3.50-4.00 (.■B.TS) ; culmen, .68-.92 (.77) ; tarsus, .80-.95 (.86) ; middle toe, .5.5-.65 

 (.61). [Eighteen summer adults measured.] 



l>. occidentalis. 



Adult hreeding-pliimage : Upper surface bright rusty cinnamon, the feathers spotted centrally 

 with black, the cinnamon sometimes nearly uniform along the sides of the crown ; a white super- 

 ciliary stripe streaked with dusky grayish, this bordered below by a stripe of light rufous or rusty 



' Forty-two adiiH specimens measured ; the avernge of this series is as follows : wings, 3.75 ; cnlmeii, 

 .87 ; tarsus, .88 ; middle toe, .60. 



