Descriptions of First Plumage of 0»r- 

 tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster, 



4. Turdus fuscescens. 



First plumage: female. Above bright reddish-buff, deepest on back 

 and rump : feathers of pileum, nape, back, and wing-coverts margined 

 with dark brown, confining the lighter color to somewhat indefinitely 

 defined central drop-shaped spots. Lores and line from lower mandible 

 along sides of throat, dark sooty-brown : throat, sides, and abdomen 

 pale brownish-yellow with indistinct transverse bands of brown ; breast 

 deep buff, each feather edged broadly with dull sooty-brown ; anal region 

 dirty white. In my collection, taken in Cambridge, Mass., July 23, 

 1874. 



BuU. N.O.O. 3t Jan., 1878. p. 



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