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Jwoenal (sexes alike).— Similar to adult, but with no black on the 

 forehead and lores, which are olive-brown, and no black on chin and 

 middle of throat, the chin being whitish, the middle of the throat 

 dusky like the breast, the breast, auriculars, sides of neck, and the 

 lower throat extensively washed with buffy olive-brown; the flanks 

 and sides tinged with buffy brown. 



Natal down. — Completely covered with thick, glossy, black down, 

 with some stiff, curly, orange feathers on the chin ; bill swollen, yel- 

 low, basally reddish. 



Adult male.—Wmg 100-116.5 (107) ; tail 42-54 (48) ; exposed cul- 

 m-n 17-24.5 (20) ; tarsus 28.5-36.5 (32.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 31-40.5 (35.5 mm.) « 



Adult female.— Wmg 98.5-109 (101.5) ; tail 38-49 (44) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 17.5-22 (19.5); tarsus 27-32.5 (30.5); middle toe without 

 claw 28-36 (33.5 mm.).'' 



Range. — Breeds from British Columbia (southern Cariboo district; 

 Chilliwack; Ashcroft; and Vanderhoof) ; Mackenzie (Fort Simpson; 

 Fort Rae; Fort Eesolution) ; Manitoba (Chemawawin; Fort Church- 

 ill; York Factory) ; Saskatchewan (Pelican Narrows) ; Ontario (Sev- 

 ern House; Moose Factory; Bracebridge) ; Quebec (Montreal; 

 Quebec; Godbout) ; Prince Edward Island; New Brunswick (Grand 

 Manan), and Nova Scotia, south to northwestern Lower California 

 (San Antonio del Mar); Nevada (Quinn Eiver; Pyramid Lake; 

 Humboldt County) ; Idaho (Rupert) ; Utah (Provo) ; Arizona (Mor- 

 mon Lake) ; southern New Mexico (Lake Burf ord ; Apache Canyon ; 

 East Gila River); Colorado (Barr; Denver; Blue River; Lay); 

 Kansas (Osawatomie) ; Missouri (Independence) ; Illinois (Spring- 

 field) ; Indiana (Bluffton) ; Ohio (Salem; Lewiston Reservoir); 

 Pennsylvania (Philadelphia; Carlisle; Du Bois) ; and Maryland. 



Winters from California (Gilroy and Marysville) ; Arizona (Pecks 

 Lake in the upper Verde Valley) ; southern New Mexico (probably) ; 

 Texas (Corpus Christi) ; Louisiana (Hester and Diamond) ; Mis- 

 sissippi (Biloxi and Bay St. Louis) ; Alabama; Florida (Royal Palm 

 Hammock; Whitfield; Titusville; Amelia Island); and Bermuda; 

 south through the West Indies : Bahama Islands (Little Abaco ; New 

 Providence; Andros; Cay Lobos; Cay Sal; Bird Rock; Watling 

 Island; Great Inagua Island); Cuba; Puerto Rico (Anegada; Car- 

 tagena ; Guanica Lagoons ; Mayaguez) ; Hispaniola (Trou Caiman ; 



*^ Sixty specimens from Massachusetts, New York, District of Columbia, Vir- 

 ginia, Maryland, Florida, Minnesota, North Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, Montana, Utah, California, Washington, Mexico, 

 Mackenzie, Alberta, Panama, and Hispaniola. 



" Twenty-two specimens from Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Illinois, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Mexico, 

 Hispaniola, and Grenada. 



