3. TurduB BwainspnL 



First plumage : male. A^ove much darker than adult, each feather, 

 excepting on rump and taiPcoverts, -with a tear-shaped spot of rich huff : 

 heneath like adult,, but rather more darkly and thickly spotted on. the 

 breast, and with narrow terminal bands of dull black on the feathers of 

 the lower breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at 

 Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. 



4. Turdus fuscescena. ' 



Fp-st plufnage : female. Above bright reddish^buff, deepest on ; back 



and rump: feathers of pileum, nape, back, and wing-coverts margined 



with dark brown, confining the lighter color to somewhat indefinitely 



defined central drop-sbaped spots. Lores and line from lower mandible 



along sides of throat, dark sooty-brown : throat, sides, and abdomen ' 



pale brownish-yellow with indistinct transverse bands of brown ; breast 



deep buff, each feather edged broadly with dull sooty-brown ; anal region 



dirty white. In my collection, taken in Cambridge, Mass., July 23, 



1874. 



6. Mimus carolinensis. 



First pli^mage : male. Pileum dull sooty-brown, many shades lighter 

 than in adult. Wings and tail as in adult ; interscapular region brownish- 

 ashy, shading into pale cinnamon-brown on the rump. Entire under 

 parts barred obscurely with dull brown on a very light ashy ground ; 

 crissum pale, dead cinnamon. In my collection from Cambridge, Mass., 



August 9, 1875. 



6. Harporhynchus Tufus. 



First plumage. Generally similar to adult, but with the spots on the 

 under parts much thicker, more diffuse, and dull black instead of reddish- 

 brown. The pileum is slightly obscured by a blackish wash ; the rump 

 rich golden-brown, and the spotting on the wing-coverts fawn-color. From 

 specimens in my collection obtained at Cambridge, July 13, 1874. 



Fall specimens differ from fuU-plumaged spring birds in having the 

 upper parts of a darker, richer red, with a much stronger rufous wash on 

 the under parts. 



7. SiaJia sialia. 



First plumage : female. Above dull smoky-brown, unmarked on head 

 and rump, the latter slightly paler ; but marked over the interscapular 

 region and wing-coverts by tear-shaped spots of white and pale fawn- 

 color, these spots occupying the central portions of the feathers. Second- 

 aries and tertiaries edged, and tipped with reddish-brown; first primary 

 and lateral pair of rectrices with the outer webs pure white ; inner 

 primaries as in adult, but with the blue of a much lighter shade ; 

 posterior margin of eye with a crescentic spot of soiled white. Under parts, 

 with the exception of the abdominal region, which is nearly immaculate, 

 pale ashy-white, each feather broadly margined w^th dull cinnamon- 



