154 THe WILSON BULLETIN—NOos. 76-77. 
wood brown anteriorally; inner webs of quill feathers of 
wings above emargination wood brown, fading to pure white 
and imperfectly barred with deeper brown; tail coverts pure 
white barred with clove brown; broad malar and narrow 
streaks at the middle of the throat clove brown. Beneath — 
soiled white from chin to and including breast, and cream- 
buff to tail; wood on tibze, spotted with prout’s brown in hour 
glass markings on breast almost confluent, cordate below 
less frequent; under tail coverts unspotted; chin and throat 
have a few acicular markings; lining of wings, axillaries and 
under primary coverts buff with sagittate spots in mars 
brown except last, which are dusky. Beak and talons black. 
Cere, feet and tarsi yellow ochre. Irides yellow. 
Length 16.00 (406). Spread 35.50 (901). Wing 10.90 (276). 
Tail 7.00 (177). Tarsus 2.88 (71). Middle claw. .65 (16); hind 
claw .70 (17). Bill from cere .76 (19); bill from nostril .70 (17). 
Cere .52 (13). Third season. No. 349, coll. F. L. B., Newton, Del- 
aware Co., Pa., Sept. 1, 1892. 
Adult Male, Gray-brown Phase.—Type, Academy of Nat- 
ural Sciences, Philadelphia, No. 1551. (Orig. No. 407). 
Philadelphia, May 6, 1812. Collected by Alexander Wilson. 
“Length fourteen inches, extent thirty-three inches; bill 
black, blue near base, slightly toothed; cere and corners of 
the mouth yellow; irides bright amber; frontlet and lores 
white from the mouth backwards runs a streak of blackish 
brown; upper parts dark brown, the plumage tipped, and the 
head streaked with whitish; almost all the feathers above are 
spotted or barred with white; but this is not seen unless they 
be separated by the hand; head large, broad and flat; cere 
very broad, the nostril also large; tail short, the exterior and 
interior feathers somewhat the shortest, the others rather longer, 
of a full black, and crossed with two bars of white, tipped 
also slightly with whitish; tail coverts spotted with white; 
wings dusky brown, indistinctly barred with black; greater 
part of the inner vanes snowy; lesser coverts, and upper 
part of the back tipped and streaked with bright ferruginous ; 
the bars of the back are very distant on the lower side of 
