female rose-breasted grosbeak. 
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fl„' k above, the feathers are whitish, edged with pal*. 
w, en » and with a broad, oblong, medial, blackish brown 
i™ at tip ; on the remaining part ot the neck and 
fp'o '^apuiars this blackish spot is wider so that the 
t ', U are properly of that colour, broadly edged with 
flaxen ; the back and rump, and the upper tail- 
ind- erts , are of a lighter brown, with but a few merely 
orated and lighter spots ; the whole inferior surface 
tjjJae bird ;« ,„t;» lmt not very pure; th 
w -a is white, but not very pure; the sides ot 
J thr °at are dotted with dark brown, the dots occu- 
«>e tips of the feathers; the breast and flanks 
C s °n>ewhat tinged with flaxen, (more dingy on the 
i£;*) and each feather being blackish along the 
6 at tip, those parts appear streaked with that 
tan llr l the middle of the throat, the belly, and under 
Cherts, are unspotted; the base ot the plumage is 
t fy where plumbeous; the wings are rounded, less 
f aur inches long, entirely dusky brown, somewhat 
h on the spurious wing, all the feathers both quills 
2 Cov «ts, being lighter on their edges; the ex error 
a t °f the middle and larger wing-coverts are whitish 
u>> constituting two white bands across the wings , 
" '"iino.; ivoLl at flip orioin beneath the spun- 
eonstituting two wuue ° • 
^ Primaries are whitish at the origin beneath the spun- 
. ' VlI >g ; the secondaries are inconspicuously whitish 
'-trial] v -t the hodv havniff a very 
; tne secondaries me 
tv,,, "'“ahy at tip, that nearest the body having a very 
"-“.I, 
Aright buff; and as they are red in the male, afford 
8 H X<:, dlent essential character for the species ; the ai 
*roi fie inches lon s> near, y evcn ’ and ot u ? al , er d ! , -I 
inn"' 11 ; the two outer feathers are slightly edged 
C^lly with whitish, but without the least trace o 
a],., r ge spot so conspicuous in the male, and which is 
th(. a / s “‘ore or less apparent in the young ot that sex , 
'eet are duskv. the tarsus measuring seveu-eigmnx 
Of 
more or less apparent in ua ; “ “r , , 
- are dusky, the tarsus measuring seven-eightns 
•hi hid, ' 
youno- male is at first vei-y similar to the female 
^ ' R ! even ^n extreme youth, paler and somewhat 
^ spotted, but a little of the beautiful rose colour, 
t'hch the mother is quite destitute, soon begins to 
<c Us appearance, principally in small dots on the 
