BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMBEICA. 



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suffused with buffy); length (skins), 230-252 (235); wing, 147-163 

 (155.3); tail, 105-123.5 (116); exposed culmen, 10-14 (12.5); tarsus, 

 16-18 (16.6); middle toe, 16-17.5 (16.5).« 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male in "pattern" and colora- 

 tion of lateral rectrices, as well as of primaries and primary coverts, . 

 but rest of plumage quite different, the wing-coverts and scapulars 

 deep brownish buff or clay color, the former with coarse and irregular 

 smaU spots of black, the latter with very large irregular spots of 

 black, the imder parts barred with dusky on a brownish buffy ground 

 and, like most of the upper parts, without fine vermiculations, the 

 pileum spotted instead of streaked with black, and the band across 

 lower throat indistinct, more or less broken by dusky barring, and 

 buffy instead of white. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male, but three lateral rec- 

 trices broadly tipped with ochraceous-buffy instead of having a large 

 white distal area. 



Eastern United States and southern Canada; north to Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, Vermont, southern Quebec, Ontario, 

 southern Keewatin, Manitoba (Red River Settlement, lat. 50°; Big 

 Plain; Turtle Mountain; Manitoba House; Winnipeg; Carberry) 

 atid Saskatchewan; west to eastern edge of the Great Plains, ia east- 

 em Nebraska, Kansas, etc., during naigration to west-central Texas 

 I (Concho, Kerr, and Kendall comities), casually to eastern Colorado 

 (Ft. Collins); breeding southward to northern Louisiana, southern 

 Georgia, northwestern Florida (Leon County), eastern Texas (1), 

 etc.; wintering in Gulf States (Florida to southeastern Texas) and 



"•Piiteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. . 



One adult male from e. Massachusetts 



One adult male from Michigan 



One adult male Irom Manitoba (Carberry) 



Four adult males from Pennsylvania 



Four adult males from District o( Columbia (1) and Virginia (3) 



Two adult males from s. e. Illinois 



One adult male from Texas (San Antonio, March 31) 



One adult male from Florida (April) 



FEMAIJ:3. 



Two adult females from Pennsylvania 



Five adult females from Maryland (2), Virginia (2), and West 



Virginia (1) 



Six adult females from s. Illinois (4), Missouri (1), and Iowa (1). 

 Two adult females from Texas (April) 



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16 



17 



16.7 



17.1 



16 



15.5 



16 



16.6 

 16.5 



16 



