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п, but so many birds which usually lay whole-coloured bluish eggs occasionally drop a set which 
TN are somewhat speckled, that I should not be surprised to find at any time a Hermit-Thrush's egg 
Iv, showing a few specks about the larger end." 
mi Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above dull reddish-brown, with a greyish 
shade; the upper tail-coverts and tail dull rufous, contrasting with the back, the aspect of the 
tail being decidedly chestnut ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series a little more ruddy 
on the edges; primary-coverts dusky brown, with rusty margins not reaching quite to the tips; 
quills dusky brown, with rusty margins, paler and more conspicuous on the primaries; crown 
of head scarcely any darker than the mantle; lores and eyelid buffy white; feathers below the 
eye and ear-coverts dusky brown, with narrow buff shaft-lines; cheeks buff, with small dusky 
cross markings; sides of neck like the back, but mottled with small buff spots; a distinct malar 
line of black, forming a moustache ; under surface of body dull white, the throat and chest pale 
ochreous-buff, spotted on the sides and centre with distinct triangular spots of brownish-black, 
very large and pronounced on the chest; the breast rather greyer and mottled with more indistinct 
spots of dusky brown; the abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs 
dark ashy grey with a faint tinge of brown; axillaries fulvous, dusky internally, and inclining to 
orange-buff at the ends; wing-coverts buffy-white, the lower ones dark brown, forming a patch, which 
contrasts with the orange-buff basal band across the base of the quills. Total length 6:7 inches, 
culmen 0:6, wing 3:9, tail 2:8, tarsus 1:2, 
Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 6:4 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 3'5, tail 2:55, 
tarsus 1:05. 
Adult in winter. More decidedly rufous than in summer on the upper parts, the wings and 
tail also deeper and more chestnut; the sides of the face and cheeks, throat and breast more 
pervaded with buff, as are also the under tail-coverts; the sides of the body incline to ochreous- 
brown. 
Young. Rather more rufous than the adults, and mottled all over with longitudinal spots of 
ochreous-buff, margined with black; the throat and chest buff, thickly spotted with black, the 
breast and sides of the body having dusky bars at the ends of the feathers. 
The figure in the Plate is drawn from a Pennsylvanian specimen in the Seebohm Collection, 
and the descriptions have been taken from the series ‚of skins in the British Museum. 
ГЕ. B. S.] 
