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Oneida Hist. Soo. Ill, 1886, 11^ (N. Y.).— Butler, B. Frankl. Co., Ind. Bull. 2, Brootv. 

 Soc. N. H. 1886, 21.— DwiGHT, Auk, IV, 1887, 16 (C. Breton).— Eidgway, Manual N. Am. 

 B. 1887, 180 (part) ; Auk, VIII, 1891, 337 (Bahamas) ; Orn. Illinois, II, 1895, 20.— Warkbn, 

 B. Pensyl. 1888, 237, 2d ed. 1890, 103.— Bryant, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1888, 44 (Faral- 

 lones).— Smith and Palmer, Auk, V. 1888, 147 (Wash. D. C.).— Sennet, t. c, 110 (Texas', 

 July).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val. Bui. 2, U. S. Dep. Agri. 1888, 101 (Migrations, 

 etc.).— Butcher, Auk, VI, 1889, 129 (Lit. Gull. Id. N. Y.).— Scott, t. u. 159 (West Coast, 

 Fla.) ; 1. 0. VII, 1890, 309 (Dry Tortugas); 1. o. IX, 1892, 15 (Jamaica) ; t. c. 212 (Caloosa- 

 hatchee R., Fla., winter). — Cantwbll, I. c. VI, 1889, 240 (Minn.) ; List, B. Minn. O. and O., , 

 XV, 1890, 131.— Clark, Auk, VII, 1890 321 (Hudson Bay).— EivEts, Proc. Newp. N. H. 

 Soc. 1890, 59 (Va.).— Palmer, Proc. U.S.N.M. XIII, 1890, 261 (Mingan, Labrador).— 

 MacFarlanb, 1. c. XIV, 1891, 430 (Arctic Am.)— Fannin, Ch. List, Brit. Col. B. 1891, 19.-^ 

 Chamberlain, Nuttall's Man. 1891, 71 (part).— Mackey, Auk, IX, 1892, 306 (Nantuckpt 

 Mass.). — Hatch, Geo. and N. H. Surv. Minn. 1892, 153.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. 1892, 105 (Texas, June); 1. c. 1893, 37 (Paget Sound); Auk, V, 1893, 17 (Wash.)- 

 Cook, Bull. 94, Mich. Agri. Coll. 1893, 66.— Brown, Nidologist, I, 1893, 144 (Cobbs Id., 

 Va.).— Stone, B. E. Penna. and N. J. 1894, 81.— Kirkwood, Trans. Md. Ac. Sci. 1895, 295 

 (Maryland).- Elliot, N. Am. Shore B. 1895, 202, 250 (part).— Chapman, Handb. B. E, 

 N. Am. 1895, 177.— Robinson, Proc. U.S.N.M., 1895, 657 (Margarita Id., Venez.).— Woodt 

 RuifF, Auk, XIII, 1896, 181 (Illinois).- Wintle, B. Montreal, 1896, 48.— McIlhbnny, 

 Auk, 1897, 289 (Louisiana, resident). 



Adult S , breeding plumage. — Similar in pattern to A. interpres, but smaller and 

 general color above chestnut with sides of interscapular black; scapulars for the 

 most part chestnut, the outer feathers broadly tipped with black and slightly with 

 white, longer feathers blackish olive irregularly tipped with chestnut; body, head, 

 and neck as in interpres, but the black of the breast less extensive and narrower, 

 white areas on head more extensive, and the black streaking on top of head with 

 whiter edgings; wings with more extensive white areas; tertials, various shades of 

 clove brown, rarely blackish, broadly blotched, margined and tipped with chestnut 

 with white tips; lesser wing coverts pale dusky olive, with much less black and more 

 white posteriorly than in interpres; median coverts extensively chestnut with little or 

 uo blackish centers; long coverts, chestnut with black blotches or narrow bands near 

 the tips of the feathers; tail as in interpres, but usually less broadly banded and 

 less sharply defined; legs and feet, deep orange red strongly and broadly crossed at 

 the joints with blackish; bill, black. 



Adult 9 , breeding plumage. — Similar to the male in pattern, but larger and more 

 subdued in color, grayer with white of head and neck obscured with dusky; chestnut 

 of mantle obscured with dark streaking; chestnut all over much less rich than in 

 males; pileum less strongly black, with wider rufous edgings; median wing coverts, 

 mixed grayish and pale chestnut with dark sometimes black center streaks ; much 

 grayer and less black than in 9 interpres; tail band as in 6 but duller; long tertials 

 more plain colored, less positively chestnut tipped and margined; feet and tarsi as 



iu S . \ 



Immature $ , first plumage. — Similar to same age of interpres, but with the pileum 

 and face and upper neck drab gray obscurely and sparingly dark streaked and paler 

 on forehead and at base of mandibles. Margins of dorsal feathering more whitish. 

 Sides of face much whiter. Throat patch larger and much less sharply bordered with 

 the dusky of breast and spotting of face. Wing coverts with much less black, being 

 generally of varying shades of drab gray and rusty, with blackish streaky centers. Bill 

 ■ slaty black, legs orange with dusky joints. 



Immature 9 , first plumage.— ^imilax to $ , but larger ai^d paler. 



