BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 563 



Bgs and feet dusky; length (in flesh), 235-248 (242)»; wing, 184-208 

 198); tail, 106-118 (110.9); exposed culmen, 6.10-7.5 (6.5); tarsus, 

 .3.5-15.2 (14.4); middle toe, 13-15.6 (14.9).6 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without the white 

 ubterminal band on tail, white on primaries more restricted, lighter 

 potting, etc., of upper parts usually more conspicuous (giving a 

 ighter colored cast to the general color of upper parts, under parts 

 Qore strongly tinged with buify, and white throat-patch usually 

 nore or less suffused with (sometimes entirely replaced by) buff; 

 ength (in flesh), 229-254 (241.5);" wing, 187.5-203 (196.5); tail, 

 .05-118.5 (112); exposed culmen, 6.2-7.2 (6.7); tarsus, 13.8-15.5 

 :i4.8); middle toe, 14-16.5 0-5.5) fi 



Young. — Much hke the adult female but without a well-defined 

 ]if any) white throat-patch, the chin and throat being buffy barred 

 )r transversely spotted with dusky — usually, however, with more or 

 ess of an indication of the throat patch of adults in the form of a 

 ess heavily spotted or barred (sometimes immaculate) buffy or 

 vhitish A-shaped area across middle of throat; general cast of upper 

 )arts decidedly paler, on account of more numerous and smaller pale 

 narkings, the wing-coverts especially having pale grayish or buffy 

 jrayish largely predominating, and barring of under parts less sharply 

 lefined. 



Eastern and northern North America; breeding in the Upper 

 \.ustral, Transition, Canadian, and southern portion of Hudsonian 

 !Ones, north to southern Maine (Bath; Moimt DeSert Island; Calais; 

 somerset County; Island Falls), Nova Scotia (Barrington; Halifax; 

 Sydney; Digby; Newport), western Newfoundland (Bay of Islands), 

 iouthern Labrador (Natashquan), Quebec (Anticosti Island; Poiat 

 ie Monts; Natashquan Eiver; Grand Falls; Lake Mistissini; Fau- 

 iel; Grosse He; Magdalen Islands), northern Ontario (Moose Factory; 

 3nmswick House), and through Keewatin (Fort ChurchiU; Norway 

 [louse; Robinson Portage; Oxford Lake; Knee Lake), Saskatche- 

 van (Prince Albert; QuiU Lake; Maple Creek), and Athabasca 

 [Clearwater River) to Mackenzie (Fort Resolution; Fort Simpson; 

 ?ort Providence; FortWrigley; westernpart of Bear Lake; Macken- 

 iie River below Fort Good Hope), and Yukon (La Pierre House; 

 nouth of Tatchun River; White Horse Rapids; Caribou Crossing) ; 

 rest to edge of Great Plains, in Minnesota (Fort Snelling; Walker; 

 it. Cloud; Waseka), southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska 

 [Omaha; Lincoln; Beatrice), eastern Kansas (Emporia; near Law- 

 •ence), etc., and through southern Manitoba (Carberry) and Alberta 

 [Fort Chippewyan; Fort Smith; Banff; Athabasca Lake; Slave River, 



a Six specimens. « Nine specimens. 



6 Twelve Bpecimens. d Ten specimens. 



