80 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Young nude in nestling pluiiiCbge} — Pileum and hindneck dull olive- 

 buffy, distinctly and broadly streaked with dusky; back and scapulars 

 more olivaceous, more broadly and less distinctly streaked with dull 

 grayish dusky, rump pale dull buffy, changing to a more fulvous hue 

 on upper tail-coverts, both distinctly streaked with dusky; tail 

 cinnamon-brown, the edges of the feathers more reddish; middle wing- 

 coverts grayish dusky, broadly margined with light yellowish buff; 

 greater coverts dull grayish, edged with olivaceous and broadly tipped 

 with light yellowish buff, producing a distinct band across wing; 

 secondaries olivaceous, their terminal margins paler and more yellow- 

 ish, the inner webs dusky; primaries similar, but outer webs becom- 

 ing orange-brownish basally; auriculars uniform olivaceous; sides of 

 neck dull light buff, streaked with dusky grayish, like nape; under 

 parts white, stained here and there with buffy yellowish, and every- 

 where streaked, most conspicuously on chest, breast, and sides, with 

 grayish dusky; lower tail-coverts orange- buff, with narrow dusky 

 mesial streaks. 



Yowng female in nestling plumage. — Similar to the young male, as 

 described above, but tail olivaceous and edgings to primaries without 

 reddish tinge. 



[The only seasonal difference of color in this species is the greater 

 intensity of the colors in autumn and winter, the opposite extreme 

 being represented in midsummer specimens. Immature males are 

 variously intermediate in plumage between the plumage of the adult 

 female and that of the adult male, the relative proportion of i"ed and 

 yellowish varying according to age, several years being required for 

 attainment of the full plumage. Adult females not unf requently show 

 touches of red, sometimes a considerable amount of this color, but 

 such females may be distinguished from immature males by the duller 

 color of the red.] 



Eastern United States in summer, breeding from the Gulf States 

 (Florida to eastern Texas) north to southern New Jersey and south- 

 eastern Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, central Indiana (north to Vigo, 

 Parke, Vermilion, and Franklin counties), central Illinois, southern 

 Iowa, etc.; casual or occasional visitant north to Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick (Grand Manan), Maine (Wiscasset), Connecticut (Port- 

 land; Saybrook), Ontario (Hamilton; Listowell), etc.; in winter south 

 to Bahamas (New Providence and Andros islands), Cuba, eastern 

 Mexico, Central America, and to Ecuador (numerous records), eastern 

 Peru (Rio Huallaga), Trinidad, and British Guiana (Eoraima). 



[Fringilla] rubra LinnjEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 181 (based on Smnmer Sed- 



bird, Mmcicapa rubra Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 56, pi. 56. ) 

 \_Muscicapa'\ rubra Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 326. 



' Described from no. 2084, coll. C. W. Beckham, Bardstown, Kentucky, June 21, 

 1886. 



