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narrow brownish or buffy white bars ; the tertials mottled with light 

 brown, brownish white, and buffy white in the form of broad but 

 much broken and obsolescent bars; superior wing-coverts grayish 

 clove brown like the quills, the primary coverts immaculate, the 

 others spotted irregularly and rather thickly, but not confluently, with 

 brownish white, cream white, and cream buff; moustachial stripe and 

 sides of head and neck blackish clove brown, the auriculars and 

 subocular region narrowly streaked with deep tawny, the sides of 

 neck anteriorly broadly streaked with tawny ochraceous, posteriorly 

 more or less spotted with buffy and brownish white ; the moustachial 

 stripe spotted with cream white and buff; a superciliary stripe con- 

 sisting of small spots of anteriorly cream white, posteriorly cream 

 buff, confluent with the light streaks on the side of the neck and the 

 light spots on the cervix; lores mixed with whitish; a broad gular 

 crescent and the middle of chin pure white ; jugulum and upper breast 

 grayish seal brown, the former with conspicuous subtriangular spots 

 of tawny ochraceous and cream buff, the latter with spots and irregu- 

 lar or broken bars of cream color, cream white, and brownish white ; 

 rest of lower surface cream buff, heavily barred with the brown color 

 of wing-quills, these bars widest and farthest apart on crissum; 

 inferior wing-coverts brown like the wings, somewhat spotted and 

 irregularly barred with cream white, cream buff, and ochraceous buff; 

 axillars dark brown, barred with buff and cream white; edge of wing 

 along the alula white. 



Iris black or hazel brown; bill black or dark brown; feet dark 

 brown, dull grayish brown, or plumbeous. 



Measurements. — Male: Total length (in flesh), 235-247.6 (average, 

 241.9) mm.; ^ extent of wing, 596.9-622.3 (610.7).^ 



Female: Total length (in flesh), 228.6-254 (241-.5) ;2 extent of 

 wing, 533.4-606 (574.4) .» 



Male:* Wing, 184-208 (average, 198) mm.; tail, 106-118 (110.9) ; 

 exposed culmen, 6.1-7.5 (6.5) ; tarsus, 13.5-15.2 (14.4) ; middle toe, 

 13-15.5 (14.9). 



Female := Wing, 187.5-203 (196.5) mm.; tail, 105-118.5 (112); 

 exposed culmen, 6.2-7.2 (6.7) ; tarsus, 13.8-15.5 (14.8) ; middle toe, 

 14r-16.5 (15.5). 



Tyfe-locality. — ^Eastern Virginia. 



Geographical distribution. — ^Eastern and northwestern North 

 America, south in winter to southern South America. Breeds in the 



1 six specimens. 



" Nine specimens. 



• Seven specimens. 



» Twelve specimens, from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts, and New York. 



"Ten specimens, from Nova Scotia, Ontario, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and 

 West Virginia. 



