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however, not forming a stripe; scapulars and interscapulars with light 

 brownish gray edgings to inner webs; lesser wing-coverts broadly 

 margined with brownish gray (sometimes tinged with brownish red 

 toward junction of wing with body); middle coverts abruptly mar- 

 gined with white or white and graj^; greater coverts, secondaries, 

 innermost primaries, and rectrices narrowly edged with light brown- 

 ish gray; outermost primaries narrowly edged with white; a distinct 

 superciliary stripe and a malar stripe of pale brownish gray or dull 

 buffy whitish, narrowly streaked with dusky; space between these 

 lighter-colored stripes nearly uniform dark brownish graj^; chin and 

 throat pale grayish buffy or dull whitish, the latter streaked with 

 dusky, especially along sides; chest streaked with dusky and pale 

 grayish buff'y in about equal amount; rest of under parts dusky, with 

 more or less distinct paler margins to f eathei-s, these most distinct on 

 breast; bill blackish, the mandible more or less paler, sometimes horn 

 color; legs and feet brownish black; iris brown. 



Admit female in winter. — Similar to the summer female, but plum- 

 age softer, more glossy, and of a more grayish cast, with pale (light 

 buffy grayish) margins to feathers of lower parts much broader. 



Immature f cm ale (in firnt winter). — Similar to the adult female in 

 winter, but much browner, the pileum, hindneck, and back strongly 

 tinged or washed with brown, and the superciliai'y and malar stripes, 

 Ughter streaks of anterior under parts, and margins of wing-coverts 

 brownish buffy. 



Young (sexes alike). — Much like summer female, but general color 

 browner and under parts of body narrowly streaked with dull grayish 

 white; middle and greater wing-coverts margined terminalljr with dull 

 buffy whitish, producing two narrow bands; tertials narrowly mar- 

 gined with dull buffy whitish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 203.^-229.9 (211.1); wing, 117.6-123.Y 

 (121.2); tail, 84.3-95.3 (88.1); culmen, 22.1-24.1 (23.4); depth of bill 

 at base, 10.4-11.7 (11.2); tarsus, 28.7-30.Y (29.7); middle toe, 21.3- 

 23.1 (22.4).' 



A&dt fe7nale),.—L,QXigt\L (skins), 180.3-199.4 (188.2); wing, 104.4- 

 109.7 (106.7); tail, 74.2-80.3 (75.4); culmen, from base, 19.8-21.1 (20.1); 

 depth of bill at base, 9.7-10.7 (10.2); tarsus, 25.4-26.9 (26.4); middle 

 toe, 19.1-20.3 (19.8).' 



Valleys of California, northern Lower California (San Rafael Val- 

 ley, etc.), and southwestern Oregon (Klamath Lakes; Wapeta Lake 

 and Beaverton, Washington County). 



/otents trmloT "Nuttall" Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 1, pi. 388, fig. 1 (Santa 

 Barbara, California;^ coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and 

 Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 186. 



' Nine specimens. 



''' Ten specimens. 



'According to label of type, from Audubon's collection. 



