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head and sides of face black; throat and cheeks white, slightly tinged with yellow, but without 
spots, excepting a broad malar line of black spots; remainder of under surface orange-rufous, 
deeper on the sides of the body, the feathers edged with black, broadly on the fore-neck and breast, 
and less distinctly on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are white. 
Young birds, after their first moult, are dark olive above, the black feathers of the crown being 
edged with dark olive, so that there is often scarcely any black to be seen. Тһе white eyebrow, as 
pointed out by Mr. Ridgway, is not interrupted, but appears to be continuous above the eye, though 
not reaching far above the ear-coverts. The median and greater wing-coverts have ochreous-buff 
or whitish margins; the rufous colour of the underparts is not so deep chestnut, but more of an 
orange-cinnamon, the feathers edged with white or ashy, the latter colour prevailing on the margins 
of the breast-feathers ; the throat is white, with scarcely any black streaks. 
The females are never of such a deep rufous underneath as the males, and as the breeding- 
season approaches the plumage becomes greyer, and the hindeneck and mantle become mottled 
with black in the males. This does not seem to be the case with adult females, which have the 
black confined to the crown. The dark bill of the winter season becomes yellow with a black tip 
during the summer. 
Тһе old birds described are a pair from Alaska in the Henshaw Collection. An adult bird has 
been figured by Mr. Seebohm, but the figure gives no idea of the extent of the white at the end of 
the outer tail-feathers. ГЕ. B. S. 
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