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Brewster’s Descriptions of First Plumages. 
17. Troglodytes parvulus var. hy emails. 
First 'plumage : male. Bemiges, rectrices, etc., as in adult ; rest of 
upper parts dark reddish-brown, becoming more dusky anteriorly : no 
trace of bars except on wings and tail. Beneath dull smoky-brown, 
with a strong ferruginous suffusion on sides, anal region, and crissum ; 
every feather of under parts with a bar of dark brown. From a specimen 
in my collection taken at Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. 
18. Telmatodytes palustria. 
First plumage : female. Entire pileum, nape, and interscapular region 
dull black ; no white streaking or spots ; otherwise like adult. From 
specimen in my collection taken at Cambridge, August 10, 1873. 
19. Cistothorus stellaris. 
Autumnal plumage : young male. Above similar to adult, but darker, 
especially on nape and pileum. Throat and abdomen light buff ; breast, 
sides, anal region, and crissum rusty-brown, paler and with white tip- 
pings to the feathers anteriorly. From a specimen in my collection shot 
at Cambridge, Mass., September 19, 1870. 
20. Mniotilta varia. 
“ First plumage. Similar in general appearance to the adult female, but 
markings, especially the two stripes of the pileum and the streaks beneath, 
much less sharply defined ; the streaks of the breast indistinct grayish- 
dusky, suffused with pale fulvous, those of the back more strongly tinged 
with rusty. The two stripes on the pileum dull grayish-dusky, instead 
of deep black. From a specimen in my collection obtained near Wash- 
ington, July, 1876.” — B. B. 
21. Parula americana. 
“ First plumage : male. Bemiges, rectrices, etc., as in the adult. Pi- 
leum, nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull gray, tinged with olive 
anteriorly and with blue posteriorly, the back with more or less of an 
indistinct patch of olive-green ; throat and eyelids grayish- white, abdo- 
men, anal region, and crissum pure white : jugulum and sides of breast 
pale ash-gray. From two specimens obtained at Mt. Carmel, 111., July 
17, 1871, Nos. 1457 and 1563, my .collection. Both of these show a large 
patch of bright gamboge-yellow on the breast, these feathers denoting the 
commencement of the adult plumage. One of them also has the chin 
and an indistinct supraloral line tinged with yellow.” — B. B. 
22. Protonotaria citrea. 
“ First plumage. Bemiges, rectrices, primary coverts, and alulae as in 
the adult. Entire abdomen, anal region, and crissum white ; head, neck, 
back, and jugulum pale greenish-olive, the throat and jugulum paler and 
