BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 945 
3capulars and interscapulars ochraceous, ochraceous-rufous, or light 
clay color, the central portion of each feather black, the tips of some 
narrowly margined with whitish; rump and upper tail-coverts dusky 
slate color, the feathers indistinctly tipped with gray; wing-coverts 
slate-grayish, margined with white or grayish white, the greater 
coverts being tipped with pure white; primaries dark gray or dull 
slate color, with white shafts, the proximal quills edged basally with 
white; an indistinct loral stripe (sometimes obsolete) and auricular 
region pale grayish fulvous finely and indistinctly streaked with 
dusky, the rest of head, including superciliary stripe, together with 
under parts, white, the chest usually tinged with ochraceous and 
narrowly streaked with dusky, the breast blotched or clouded with 
grayish dusky, sometimes nearly uniformly dusky, the flanks and 
under tail-coverts with a few narrow shaft-streaks of dusky; axillars 
and most of under wing-coverts immaculate white, the under primary 
coverts, however, very pale gray, the edge of wing spotted with 
gray; bill blackish, more brownish basally (in dried skins) ; iris dark 
brown; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 
Winter plumage.—Wings, rump, upper tail-coverts, and posterior 
under parts as in summer; rest’ of upper parts light gray (between 
pale quaker drab and cinereous), the scapulars and interscapulars 
darker centrally, with a very faint purplish or bronzy gloss in certain 
lights; head and neck light or pale gray, darker and nearly uniform 
on pileum, paler and more or less streaked with white elsewhere, the 
throat white, immaculate or but sparsely streaked; chest and breast 
white, irregularly marked with pale gray. 
Young.—Much like summer adults but wing-coverts broadly 
margined with pale buff, chest pale buff distinctly marked with short 
streaks and sagittate markings of dusky gray, and scapulars, etc., 
more distinctly margined terminally with buff or buffy white. 
Downy young.—Above bright sayal brown or cinnamon irregularly 
marbled with black, the back and rump bespangled with downy, dot- 
like flecks of buffy white; hindneck nearly uniform pale grayish buff; 
forehead deep warm buff or light pinkish cinnamon, with a median 
streak or longitudinal diamond-shaped spot of black, extending 
posteriorly into the fulvous of the crown and occiput, which are 
irregularly marbled, longitudinally, with black; a narrow black 
loral streak reaching half way or more to eye, and a still narrower 
black rictal streak; under parts immaculate buffy white. 
Adult male-—Wing, 119-133 (126.5); tail, 52-64 (59.1); exposed 
culmen, 27-35.5 (30.4); tarsus, 21.5-24.5 (23.1); middle toe, 20- 
24.5 (22.6).2 ! 
« Highteen specimens, 
