348 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
dusky brownish (olive-greenish, grayish olive or grayish green in 
life). : 
Winter plumage.—Pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, and wing- 
coverts nearly uniform brownish gray, the upper parts without dis- 
tinct, if any, blackish spots; foreneck and chest very pale brownish 
gray (usually white or nearly so medially) indistinctly streaked with 
brownish gray; otherwise essentially as in summer. 
Y oung.—“ Differs from the adults in being closely spotted on the 
upper surface, but the spots are more or less rufescent; the lower 
throat and chest are ashy as in the winter plumage of the adults, but 
the dusky-brown stripes are very distinct and are also visible on the 
sides of the body; the axillaries are pure white, or with the merest 
trace of frecklings of brown.” ¢ 
Downy young.—Forehead, sides of head and neck (including a 
broad superciliary stripe) and under parts dull grayish white or 
brownish white, more or less tinged, especially on head, with pale 
brownish gray; a sharply defined narrow loral streak of black, 
extending from bill to eye; a postocular streak of black, narrow 
anteriorly, much broader posteriorly; forehead with a median 
narrow stripe of mixed black and brownish gray; crown sooty blackish 
laterally (broadly), light grayish brown medially; occiput sooty 
blackish laterally, with a pair of oblique spots of pale buffy grayish, 
the black extending as a stripe down median portion of nape and 
hindneck; general color of upper parts sooty black or dark sooty 
brown, slightly intermixed with light buffy brown or drab, the rump 
with a median rather broad stripe of sooty black and two lateral 
narrow stripes of pale grayish buff or dull buffy. whitish. 
Adult male—Wing, 115-123.5 (118.8); tail, 43.5-51 (46.8); ex- 
posed culmen, 25-32 (28.1); tarsus, 33-41 (36.6); middle toe, 
25-28 (26.8).° 
Adult female.—Wing, 117-125.5 (120.4); tail, 47-53.5 (49.6); ex- 
posed culmen, 28-30.5 (29.2); tarsus, 35-41 (37.6); middle toe, 
25.5-32 (28.2).° 
@ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 495. + Ten specimens. 
¢ Eleven specimens. 
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Locality. Wing. | Tail. Le Tarsus.| “06. 
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MALES, 
Four adult males from Europe (one from Aldabra Island)...... 119 46.1 26. 8 35 26,4 
Six adult males from eastern and southwestern Asia........... 118.7 47.3 28.7 37.7 27.1 
FEMALES, 
Two adult females from Europe..........2.2.2020ceceeeeeeeeee 120.2} 47.5') 29.5} 37 26.2 
Eight adult females from eastern Asia.............222.2-eeeee+ 120.4 50. 2 29 37.8 28, 2 
One adult female from Alaska (Sanak Island, Aleutian chain) .| 120.6 48.5 29.7 37.1 32 
