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BULLETIN SO, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Toung male, first plumage. — Above plain broccoli brown, the wings 

 Qd tail as in the adult, but wing-bands narrower, more or less strongly 

 uffy; beneath dull whitish, strongly shaded across chest and along 

 des and flanks with pale broccoli brown. 



Young female, first plumage. — Similar to the young male, but upper 

 arts rather less decidedly brown. 



Adult rrMle.—l^Qngth. (skins), 118-136 (125.2); wing, 67.5-76 (72.9); 

 lil, 51.5-58 (54.4); exposed culmen, 10-12 (10.9); depth of bill at 

 ostrils, 4-4.5 (4.2); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 (18.5); middle toe, 12-13.5 

 L2.7).^ 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 115-128 (120.2); wing, 66.5-70.5 

 )8.4); tail, 50.5-53.5 (52.2); exposed culmen, 9.8-11 (10.6); depth of 

 ill at nostrils, 4; tarsus, 17-19 (18.2); middle toe, 12-13.5 (12.4).' 



Eastern United States and more southern British Provinces, north 

 3 Minnesota, Manitoba (to Lake Winnipeg), Ontario (Lake Muskoka, 

 lamilton, etc.), New York, southern Maine, and New Brunswick; 

 reeding southward to southern Florida and Gulf States, wintering in 

 louthern States (Florida to Texas) and northward to coast district of 

 '^irginia, southern Illinois, etc., occasionally to Massachusetts; occa- 

 ional in Bermudas. 



Sylvia pinus (not of Latham, 1790) Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 25, pi. 19, fig. 4.— 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 737, part. — Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 

 1823, 464.— BoNAPAKTE, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 194; Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1826, 81.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 387.- 

 AuDUBON, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 132, pi. 111. 



Th[riothurm'] 1 pinm Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 194, part. 



Sylmcola pinus Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 316, pi., 19, fig. 4. — Rich- 

 ardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 172. — Bonaparte, Geog. and 



' Twenty-seven specimens. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 



Specimens from different localities (mostly taken during breeding season) average 

 3 follows: 



