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2. A. couesi. Breeding dress : Pileum streaked with deep rusty ; 
scapulars and interscapulars broadly bordered with bright ferruginous ; 
foreneck and jugulum irregularly clouded with dull pale buff or soiled 
white and sooty plumbeous, the breast more coarsely clouded, with more 
or less of a black patch on each side. Winter dress : Similar to mciritima, 
but with the plumbeous borders to dorsal feathers broader and lighter, 
or more bluish, in tint ; jugulum streaked or otherwise varied with white. 
Young , first plumage : Scapulars and interscapulars conspicuously bordered 
with bright rusty, ochraceous, and whitish ; wing-coverts broadly bordered 
with buffy-white or pale buff ; breast and sides buffy-white, distinctly 
streaked with dusky. Chick: Above bright rusty fulvous, irregularly mar- 
bled with black, the ornamental velvety flecks or papillae coarser and less 
pure white than in maritima ; head light fulvous, with markings as in 
maritima ; lower parts distinctly fulvous laterally. Average measurements 
of 14 adults : Wing, 4.86 ; culmen, 1.13; tarsus, 0.95 ; middle toe, 0.86. 
Hob., Aleutian Islands and contiguous coast of Alaska. 
3. A. ptilocnemis. Breeding dress : Pileum broadly streaked with 
ochraceous-buff ; scapulars and interscapulars broadly bordered with bright 
ochraceous-rufous ; foreneck and jugulum pure white, sparsely streaked 
with brownish gray ; breast white, streaked anteriorly, and clouded pos- 
teriorly, with dusky, the latter forming more or less of a patch on each side. 
Winter dress : In general character similar to the corresponding stage of 
A. maritima and A. couesi , but very much paler, the whole dorsal aspect 
being light cinereous, the scapulars and interscapulars with small, nearly 
concealed, central spots, the wing-coverts very broadly edged with pure 
white ; jugulum with white largely predominating. Young, first plumage : 
Similar to A. couesi, but colors throughout much paler, the light borders 
to the feathers of the dorsal surface broader, the dark centres correspond- 
ingly decreased. Chick: Similar to that of A. couesi , but paler, the dark 
streaks on the lores not reaching to the eye. Average measurements of 13 
adults: Wing, 5.16; culmen, 1.33; tarsus, 0.98; middle toe, 0.90. Hob ., 
Prybilov Islands, Alaska. 
LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE ISLAND OF SANTA LUCIA, 
WEST INDIES. 
BY J. A. ALLEN. 
The ornithology of none of the Windward Islands is probably 
better known than that of Santa Lucia, for which fact thanks are 
due almost exclusively to Dr. P. L. Sclater and Rev. John Semper. 
