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swiftly, however, docs it perform its migrations from 

 Louisiana to Newfoundland and Labrador, that although 

 it sometimes remains in the first of these countries 

 until late in IMarch, it has young in the latter by 

 the end of June, and the brood is able to accompany 

 the old birds back to the south in the beginning 

 of August. 



The adult male in summer plumage has the bill 

 short, straight, subulate, very slender, and compressed, 

 with inflated edges; upper mandible nearly straight 

 in its dorsal outline, the edges scarcely notched close 

 upon the slightly declinate acute tip; lower mandible 

 straight and acute. Nostrils basal, elliptical, half closed 

 above by a membrane covered over by feathers. 

 The whole form is slender, although the bird looks 

 somewhat bulky, on account of the loose texture of 

 the feathers. Legs rather long; tarsus slender, longer 

 than the middle toe, much compressed, and covered 

 anteriorly with a few indistinct scutella; toes scutellate 

 above, the lateral ones nearly equal and free, hind toe 

 stouter; claws weak, compressed, arched, and acute. 



Plumage very loose and tufty. Short bristles at the 

 base of the bill. Feathers of the head elongated and 

 silky. Wings of ordinary length, third and fourth 

 primaries "longest. Tail of tv/elve feathers, emarginate, 

 and of ordinary length; bill black, yellow at the base 

 of the lower, and on the edges of the upper mandible. 

 Iris light brown; feet yellowish brown, the under 

 parts yellow. The general colour of the upper parts 

 is dull olivaceous, lighter behind. The eye is encircled 

 with greyish white, of which colour also are the tips 

 of the wing coverts; quills and tail duskj^, edged 

 with greenish yellow; the silky feathers of the crown 

 of the head vermilion. The under parts greyish white. 



