344 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



edged with paler (broccoli brown) ; middle and greater wing-coverts 

 tipi^ed with whitish, forming two narrow bands, the posterior one 

 sometimes rather indistinct; innermost greater wing-coverts and ter- 

 tials edged with rusty brown or chestnut, blackish centralh-; second- 

 aries edged with duller brown; primaries, primarj^ coverts, and 

 outermost greater coverts edged with lighter and more grayish brown; 

 edge of wing pale j^ellow; maxilla dusky, mandible paler (bluish gray 

 in life, tinged with lilaceous basally); iris brown; tarsi pale brownish, 

 toes slightly darker; length (skins), 155.45-166.88 (160.78);^ wing, 

 72.39-77.22 (74.68); tail, 71.12-76.20 (73.15); exposed culmen, 10.67- 

 12.19 (11.43); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.13 (7.87); tarsus, 22.86- 

 24.64 (23.62); middle toe, 16.26-17.27 (16.76).' 



Adult female. — Not always distinguishable from the adult male, but 

 usually with coloration of head and under parts decidedly duller; the 

 black crown-stripes more tinged or streaked with brown; the median 

 crown-stripe and posterior portion of superciliary stripe grayish or 

 buffy; the yellow supraloral stripe duller; white throat-patch more 

 restricted, sometimes sparselj' flecked with duskj" and often separated 

 from the white of malar region by a dusky streak; graj' of lower 

 throat and chest duller, the sides of breast usually more or less streaked 

 with brown or dusky; length (skins), 150.ll-i60.27 (153.67); wing, 

 69.60-73.15 (71.12); tail, 68.07-73.66 (69.60); exposed culmen, 11.18- 

 11.68 (11.43); depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.87 (7.62); tarsus, 22.35- 

 23.88 (23.11); middle toe, 15.24-16.51 (16.00).' 



Irrvmature (young in first winter"). — Similar in coloration to the more 

 dull-colored adult females, but still duller; the dark crown-stripes 

 more brown than black, the yellow supraloral space less distinct, the 

 white throat-patch usually less sharply defined anteriorlj', the gray of 

 chest paler and duller and usually more or less streaked with duskj'. 



Young. — Pileum nearly or quite uniform warm sepia or vandyke 

 brown divided by a median narrow stripe of dull butfy or buffy 

 whitish; no yellow over lores; lower throat, chest, and sides of breast 

 pale dull buffy streaked with dusky; otherwise essentially like adults. 



[Easily distinguished from the young of Z. Jeucophrys by the deeper 

 and more uniform brown of the lateral crown-sti'ipes, and more rusty 

 general coloration of back and wings.] 



Eastern North America; breeding from Massachusetts (Framing- 

 ham, Wakefield?, Graylock Mountain, Mount Wachusett, etc.), north- 

 ern New York (Lewis County), Ontario, northern Michigan, north- 

 eastern Wj'oming, eastern Montana, etc., northward to Great Bear 

 Lake, west shores of Hiidson Bay, Labrador, etc. ; south in winter to 

 Florida and southern Texas; occasional straggler westward to Oregon 

 (The Dalles) and California (Stockton, Hay wards, Santa Ynez, Pasadena, 

 Sonoma, etc.). 



' Length before skinning, about .177.80-194.31. ^Seven specimens. 



