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of the @’s black hood clearly indicated, but interrupted and ill-defined. Sides of breast and 
belly with few small sharp dark streaks, instead of heavy black stripes; other under parts as in 
the @. Bill obscure yellowish, dusky-tipped; feet'dark brown, not black. Rather smaller. 
& @, young, in winter, as usually seen in U. 8., without any continuous black, resemble 
the adult @ as to coloration of head and fore parts, and are like winter # in other respects. 
The cervical collar may be scarcely appreciable, but usually shows a trace at least ; sides often 
quite brown. Fledglings: Continuously streaked on the upper and fore parts with blackish 
and brownish-yellow; wings and tail broadly edged with chestnut; bill dark; feet pale. A 
species of circumpolar distribution, like the last; breeding range and winter rovings much the 
same, but less commonly observed in the U. $. South irregularly to the Middle States, Ohio, 
Colorado, ete. Nesting like P. nivalis; eggs 4-6, 0.80 x 0.62, dark-colored, very heavily 
mottled and clouded with chocolate-brown, through which the greenish-gray ground scarcely 
appears. 
C. pic'tus. (Lat. pictus, painted.) Paintep Lonaspur. Adult ¢: Cervical collar and entire 
under parts rich fawn color; crown and sides of head black, bounded below by a white line, and 
interrupted by a white superciliary and auricular line and white occipital spot. Upper parts 
streaked with black and brownish-yellow. Lesser and middle wing-coverts black, tipped with 
white, forming conspicuous patches. One or two outer tail-feathers mostly white. No white 
ontherest. Legs pale or flesh-colored. Size of lapponicus. Length 6.50; extent 11.25; wing 
3.75 ; tail 2.50; tarsus 0.75 ; middle toe and claw, about the same; hind toe and claw, rather 
less (C. ornatus is much less in all its dimensions). Young, and generally in winter: Bill dusky- 
brown above and at tip, paler below; feet light brown (drying darker) ; toes rather darker. 
Entire under parts rich yellowish-brown, or buffy (in C. ornatus never thus) ; paler on the chin 
and throat, which, with the fore-breast, are obsoletely streaked with dusky.; the tibiee white. 
Tail white only onthe two or three outer feathers (in C. ornatus all the feathers, excepting some- 
times the central pair, are white at the base). Upper parts much as in the adult, but the distinc- 
tive head-markings wanting, or only obscurely indicated. Interior N. Am. from the region of the 
Yukon, McKenzie, Saskatchewan and upper Missouri to the prairies of Illinois in winter. It 
is not found in the Atlantic States, but is common on the prairies of Dakota, Montana, and 
southward, associated in the fall with C. ornatus, but breeding mostly farther north. Habits 
and general aspect of ornatus, but easily distinguished by larger size, buffy under parts, black 
and white wing-patch, and white only on some lateral instead of all of the tail-feathers. Nest 
on ground; eggs size of lapponicus, colored more like ornatus. 
C. orna/tus. (Lat. ornatus, adorned), CHESTNUT-COLLARED LonesPUR. BLACK-sSHOUL- 
DERED LonespuR. WHITE-TAILED Lonespur. , in full dress: Cervical collar intense 
chestnut. Crown black; a whitish spot on nape, and broad white superciliary stripe. Auricu- 
lars black, mixed with the color of the throat; throat and most of the sides of head below eyes 
rusty-white, changing to pure white which extends around sides of neck, partly bordering the 
chestnut collar. Breast and belly lustrous black, often mixed with intense ferruginous or 
mahogany feathers, sometimes largely overlaid with this rich sienna-color. Lining of wings 
pure white. Sides of body, flanks, lower belly and under tail-coverts, white, all but the last 
usually rusty-tinged. Back, rump, and scapulars brownish-black, varied with grayish-brown 
edges of the feathers. Wings dark brown without decided markings, though the feathers are 
pale-edged, excepting jet-black lesser coverts, with or without white tips. Tail like wings, 
but two or three lateral feathers entirely white, and all the rest basally white in decreasing 
amount: in flight, the ‘t white tail” is very conspicuous. Bill blackish-plumbeous; feet dark. 
Smaller than the foregoing : Length 5.75-6.00, rarely 6.25 ; extent 10.25-10.75, rarely 11.00 ; 
wing 3.00-3.30; tail 2.00-2.30. 9, in full dress: Rather smaller; size averaging about the lesser 
figures just given. Upper parts, wings, and tail as before, but lesser coverts not black; chest- 
nut collar obscured ; crown like back, separated from the back-markings by a slight rufous 
