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U. S. P. R R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
the head, the neck behind, back, rump, and tail light rufous or cinnamon color. Under parts generally a paler shade of the 
same rufous as the back, frequently nearly white, but sometimes as dark as the upper parts, and always with more or less 
numerous circular or oblong spots of black. Quills brownish black, with white bars on their inner webs. Tail tipped with 
white, frequently tinged with rufous and with a broad subterminal band of black, outer frequently white, tinged with ashy and 
barred with black. Bill light blue, legs yellow. Back generally with transverse stripes of black, but frequently with very 
few, or entirely without ; rufous spot on the head, variable in size, and sometimes wanting. 
Younger mah. — Upper parts as above ; wiug coverts, and tail ferruginous red, with numerous transverse bands of brownish 
black. Under parts with numerous longitudinal stripes, and on the sides with transverse bands of brownish black, external 
feathers of the tail palest, broad subterminal band on the tail obscure or wanting. 
Young. — All the rufous parts of the plumage with wider transverse bands of brownish black; wing coverts dark bluish 
cinereous, with large circular spots of black ; under parts with longitudinal stripes, and large circular spots of black. 
Total length 11 to 12 inches, wing 7 to 7J, tail 5 to 5£ inches. 
H b. The entire continent of America. Specimens in Nat. Museum, Washington, and Mus. Acad. Philadelphia. 
List of specimens. 
J Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence. 
Original number. 
Collected by— 
Measurements. 
Remarks. 
Point of bill to end 
of tail. 
Between tips of out- 
stretched wings. 
Wing from carpal 
joint. 
9 
Mar. 20, 1857 
1857 
9 
& 
Aug. 31, 1853 
10.75 
10.38 
22.50 
21.50 
7.50 
7.50 
3 
9 
9 
3 
3 
10.13 
22.00 
7.38 
Forty miles up the Yellow 
Stone river 
July 10, 1856 
May 30, 1856 
do 
10.75 
23.00 
8.00 
Medicine Bow creek, Neb. 
337 
4 
42 
19 
6 
19 
103 
Feb. 12, 1855 
April 6, 1855 
9.50 
11.00 
21.00 
22.00 
6.00 
8.00 
Eyes light gray... 
Fifty miles from Indianola. 
Dec. 9, 1854 
10.50 
21.00 
8.00 
Lieut. Beckwith 
9 
3 
3 
3 
July 14, 1856 
Aug. 11, 1857 
April 24, 1855 
Aug. 14, 1856 
10.50 
20.00 
North Platte, Neb 
9.50 
10.50 
10.00 
18.50 
22.00 
Oct. 22, 1855 
July 28, 1856 
Capt. Pope 
152 
168 
7.50 
Eyes brown ; feet 
and gums yellow. 
3 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T . . . 
April — , 1856 
346 
Bodega, Cal 
Jan. — , 1855 
Lieut. Trowbridge . . . 
153 
9 
21.58 
7.58 
July 4, 1853 
Sacramento Valley, Cal. 
3 
Jan. 23, 1854 
59 
Kennedy and Moll- 
