PASSERINE BIRDS OF NEW YORK 251 



Compsothypis americana ( Linn.). Parlla W'arijler 



1. Xatal Down. Smoke-^-rav. 



2. Juvenal Plumage acquired by a complete postnatal moult. 



Above, including sides of head, brownish olive-gray ; indistinct superciliary stripe and 

 orbital ring white, yellow tinged ; faint dusty transocular streak. Wings clove- 

 brown, the edgings chiefly olive-green, bluish on the primaries and their coverts. 

 Two wing bands tipping coverts, white. Tail clove-brown edged with ashy 

 blue the outer rectrices with subterminal white blotches on their inner webs. 

 Bill and feet pinkish butt, the former becoming dusky, the latter deep sepia- 

 brown with age. 



3. First Winter Plumage acquired by a partial postjuvenal 

 moult, beginning the middle of Jul}-, which involves the body 

 plumage and the wing co\'erts but not the rest of the wings nor 

 the tail. 



Unlike the previous plumage. Above, including sides of head, bluish plumbeous 

 gray veiled by olive-green edgings, the back chestnut-tinged veiled by olive- 

 yellow. Below, canary-yellow on chin and throat, veiling a pectoral band of 

 pale chestnut, w^hich is dusky on the jugulum and invaded by the gray of the 

 sides of the neck. The abdomen and crissum, white, veiled slightly with edg- 

 ings of canary-yellow, the sides and flanks faintly washed with cinereous gray 

 and pale chestnut. The wing coverts are bluish plumbeous gray, broadly 

 tipped with white yellow-tinged, forming two wing bands. IndisUnct super- 

 ciliary line and large suborbital spot white. A dusky transocular streak. 



Young and old become practically indistinguishable in many 

 cases, the \-oung birds usual!}- duller and especialK* lacking in 

 chestnut on the chin. 



4. First Nuptial Plumage acquired b}- a partial prenuptial 

 moult which involves chief!}- the head, chin and throat, but not 

 the rest of the body plumage, the wings nor the tail. The ash}- 

 blue crown feathers fainth* dusk}- centrally, the blackish ones 

 of the sides of the head with a white spot above and below the 

 eye and the }-ellow or chestnut-tinged chin feathers as far as the 

 pectoral band or farther are assumed by moult. Wear brings 

 the back into contrast with the nape and whitens the lower parts. 

 The wings and tail are browner and more worn than in the adult, 

 especiall}- the primar}- co\-erts. 



5. Adult Winter Plumage acquired b}* a complete postnuptial 

 moult in Jul}-. Practicall}- indistinguishable from first winter 



