BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 533 



Admit mal&in Kpriiig <md summer. — Pileum and hindneck uniform 

 bluish slate-gray or plumbeous, margined latefalh' by a white supra- 

 auricular streak beginning on upper eyelid; a white spot on lower 

 eyelid; frontlet, lores, suborbital region, auricular region, sides of 

 neck, back, and scapulars uniform deep black, the last sometimes mar- 

 gined with olive-grayish; rump clear lemon-yellow, the upper portion 

 streaked with black and sometimes partly olive-greenish; upper tail- 

 coverts black; tail black, the outer webs of rectrices edged with gray, 

 their inner webs (except middle pair) crossed in middle portion by a 

 broad band of white, about 10-12 wide; wings black, the middle and 

 greater coverts broadly margined and tipped with white, forming a 

 lai'ge and conspicuous patch, the remiges and primary coverts nar- 

 rowly edged with gray; under parts, except under taii-coA-erts, rich 

 lemon or gamboge yellow, the chest, sides, and iianks xavy broadly 

 streaked with black — these black markings sometimes confluent on the 

 chest; under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillars white; bill 

 black; iris brown; legs and feet duskj^ brown. 



Adult female in spring and sutmner. — Much duller in color than the 

 male; gray of pileum and hindneck duller, passing into dull olive- 

 greenish on back, where usually rhore or less blotched or spotted with 

 black, rarely mostly black; lower rump crossed by a band of olive- 

 yellow; upper tail-covets black centrally, more or less broadh' mar- 

 gined with slate-gray; tail as in male but duller in black; wings duller 

 black than, in male, with less of white on middle and greater coverts; 

 sides of head sometimes as in adult male, usually duller in color, some- 

 times with olive grayish replacing black; under parts paler and duller 

 yellow than in male, with chest and sides less heavily marked with 

 black (sides and flanks rarely almost without black streaks or spots and 

 spots or streaks on chest few and small). 



Adult (?) ')nale in autumn and winter. — Pileum, hindneck, and sides 

 of neck dull brownish gray; back and scapulars olive-green, the feath- 

 ers with large, mostly concealed, central spots of black; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, tail, and wings as in the summer male but the last with two 

 narrow bands, instead of a large patch, of white, the greater coverts 

 being edged with gray, like remiges; sides of head grayish, somewhat 

 mottled with black on rictal region, and relieved by a whitish orbital 

 ling; under parts as in the summer male, but chest without - black 

 streaks or spots, the black markings conspicuous only on flanks and 

 there more or less concealed. 



Tovmg male in first OMtumn and winter. — Similar to the supposed 

 adult male of corresponding season, but chest crossed by a broad band 

 of dull whitish or grayish white, and without trace of black on cheeks. 



Young female in first autumn and winter. — Similar to the young 

 male of same season, but smaller and much duller in color, the pileum, 

 etc., decidedly more brownish, the back without distinct concealed 



