152 Tur WiLson BULLETIN—NOS. 76-77. 
First Nuptial, Second Year Male—Upper parts deep van- 
dyke brown, almost black, fading to hair brown on scapulars, 
and confined to narrow bars and edgings on primaries, sec- 
ondaries and tertials, the bars often ending in russet jon the 
inner webs which are two-thirds white except at the tips; 
hind neck basal three-quarters white; sides of neck, middle 
of the back, scapulars, greater and middle wing coverts edged 
with mars brown; upper tail coverts rich vandyke tipped 
and barred with soiled white or else hair brown; tail hair 
brown fading on inner vanes to white, crossed by four bands 
of deep vandyke brown. Beneath soiled cream-buff with lance- 
olate markings on throat, and large imperfect cordate spots 
on breast, sides and abdomen, confluent on sides of breast, 
of pure vandyke and burnt umber; narrow malar stripes of 
clove brown; under tail coverts of soiled white with nar- 
row spots, mainly sagittate, of clove brown; lining of wings 
cream. Irides pearl gray. Beal and talons black. Feet and 
tarsi yellow ochre. Cere yellow ochre. 
Length 14.50 (565). Wing 9.75 (247). ‘Tail 6.25 (158). Tar- 
sus 2.58 (65). Middle claw .56 (14 ; hind claw .66 (17). Bill from 
cere .65 (17); from nostril .50 (17). Cere 41 (.10). Weight 18 oz. 
15144 months old. 3erwyn, Pa. Sept. 26, 1908. No: 925, ‘coll: 
105 1B 183. 
First Nuptial, Second Year, Female-——Upper parts fuscous, 
narrowly tipped with rufous; basil portion of nape pure white, 
sides of head with lateral streaks of ashy and rufous; ex- 
posed parts of primaries deeper fuscous or vandyke brown, 
indistinctly barred with ashy on the outer web and the fus- 
cous forming bars on the white inner web from the notches 
to insertion; secondaries and coyerts fuscous, fading grad- 
ually toward the edges to ashy; upper tail coverts tipped 
and banded with white; tail vandyke brown, with four bands 
of grey, white en inner web; the last band indistinct and fad- 
ing terminally into white, the second one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch wide, and the basal about one-quarter of 
an inch wide and partly concealed by the coverts; the outer 
