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terminal shaft spots and subterminally banded with Prout's brown ; scapu- 

 lars and rest of interscapulars and upper wing coverts between Prout s 

 brown and russet with narrow pale tawny shaft streaks terminally widen- 

 ing into whitish tips, the feathers with a broad subterminal blackish band 

 (not extending across the pale shaft streak) and sparsely freckled with the 

 same on the basal brownish area; back, lower back, and rump dark hair 

 brown barred with whitish (the whitish bars formed by the tips of the 

 feathers) ; primaries between hair brown and chaetura drab, faintly and 

 finely mottled on the outer web with pale cinnamon-buff and narrowly 

 tipped with whitish; secondaries hair brown on their inner webs, Sayal 

 brown on the outer webs which are transversely broadly blotched with 

 blackish and finely and sparsely peppered with dusky ; the innermost sec- 

 ondaries have this Sayal brown extending over the inner web as well, and 

 all the secondaries are tipped with .pale pinkish buff ; upper tail coverts and 

 rectrices Sayal brown transversely broadly: but irregularly banded with 

 blackish and tipped with buffy white ; lores, cheeks, and auriculars pinkish 

 buff darkening to light pinkish cinnamon above and behind the eye ; chin 

 and upper throat very pale pinkish buff ; lower throat pinkish buff irregu- 

 larly barred with hair brown; the feathers broadly tipped with white; 

 breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts dark hair 

 brown but the feathers of the sides and flanks and lower abdomen heavily 

 washed with Sayal brown, their shafts white. '. 



Natal down (sexes alike). — Head as in juvenal plumage described 

 above ; the upper back slightly paler but very heavily and extensively 

 blotched with dark bister; back, lower back, and rump somewhat darker 

 and more rufescent, heavily marked with Brussels brown to bister and 

 Vandyke brown, the spinal tract being broadly and continuously of this 

 dark tone ; sides of head pale pinkish buff to tilleul buff, paling to almost 

 white on the chin and upper throat and breast ; middle of abdomen washed 

 with straw yellow, whiter laterally. 



Adult mde.—Wing 480-550 (512.9); tail 370-440 (397.2); culmen 

 from cere 31-38 (34.8) ; tarsus 146-181.5 (162.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 73-87 (81.4); length of tarsal spur 14.5-23 (18.5); diameter of 

 tarsal spur 10-13.5 (11.6 mm.)." 



Adult feimle.—Wmg 382-438 (414.3) ; tail 306-345 (329.3) ; culmen 

 from cere 28-35.5 (31.7) ; tarsus 126-143 (131.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 61.5-68 (65.4 mm.). i« 



Range. — Formerly resident in wooded districts from southern Maine, 

 southern Ontario, and northern New York, southern Michigan, southern 

 Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota, Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, and Kansas ; south through New England, New York, New Jersey, 



^ Nine specimens from Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland. 



'" Six specimens from Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, and North Carolina. 



