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3. First W^ixter Plumage acquired by a partial postjuvenal 

 moult in August and September, which involves the body plum- 

 age and the wing coverts, but not the rest of the wings nor the 

 tail. 



Above, including wing coverts, sides of head, throat, breast and sides slaty gray, 

 darkest on the crown and veiled with bistre edgings, especially on the back, 

 more faintly with paler brown or ashy gray on the throat. Abdomen and cris- 

 sum pure white, sometimes faintly washed with vinaceous cinnamon. 



4. First Nuptial Plumage acquired by wear through which 

 the brown and ashy edgings are finally lost, birds becoming 

 ra-gged but not much faded by the end of the breeding season. 

 A few new feathers are acquired on the chin early in April, but 

 no regular moult is indicated. 



5. Adult Winter Plumage acquired by a complete post- 

 nuptial moult beginning the middle of August. Practically in- 

 distinguishable from first winter, but the tertiaries usually edged 

 with gray instead of faded cinnamon, the wings and tail blacker 

 and showing everywhere fewer brown edgings. 



6. Adult Nuptial Plumage acquired by wear as in -first 

 nuptial from w^iich practically indistinguishable. 



Female. — In natal down and juvenal plumage not distinguish- 

 able from the male. The moults are the same. The first 

 winter plumage is similar to that of the male, but the gray 

 much paler and eveiywhere the plumage more veiled with brown. 

 The adult winter plumage is grayer than the first winter dress 

 and resembles the young male at like season, but is much 

 browner with the gray paler. 



Melospiza fasciata (Gmel.). Song Sparrow 



1. Natal Down. Sepia-brown. 



2. Juvenal Plumage acquired by a complete postnatal moult. 



Resembles Z. albicollis, but lacks chestnut above, paler on crown and less streaked 

 below. 



Above, including sides of head, wood-brown or sepia broadly striped on back, nar- 

 rowly on crown, nape and rump with dull black, the feathers centrally black 

 with a narrow zone of walnut and wood-brown and grayish edgings. Indistinct 

 median crown and superciliary stripes dull olive-gray with dusky shaft streaks. 



