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Brewster’s Descriptions of the First Plumage 
central region of the throat are immaculate, crossed transversely with 
lines of dull black. From a specimen in my collection shot at Upton, 
Me., June 20, 1873. This bird was very young, — scarcely able to fly, 
in fact, — yet the color of the rectrices is sufficiently characteristic to sepa- 
rate it at once from the corresponding stage of T. swciinsoni, which it 
otherwise closely resembles. Another specimen of apparently nearly 
the same age, taken at Eye Beach, N. H., July 25, 1872, differs in having 
a decided reddish or rusty wash over the entire plumage, and by the spots 
on the breast being brownish instead of black. 
3. Turdus swainsoni. 
First 'plumage : male. Above much darker than adult, each feather, 
excepting on rump and tail-coverts, with a tear-shaped spot of rich buff : 
beneath like adult, but rather more darkly and thickly spotted on the 
breast, and with narrow terminal bands of dull black on the feathers of 
the lower breast and sides. From a specimen in my collection shot at 
Upton, Me., August 4, 1874. 
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. 
5. Mimus carolinensis. 
First plumage : male. Pileum dull sooty-brown, many shades lighter 
than in adult. Wings and tail as in adult ; interscapular region brownish- 
ashy, shading into pale cinnamon-brown on the rump. Entire under 
parts barred obscurely with dull brown on a very light ashy ground ; 
crissum pale, dead cinnamon. In my collection from Cambridge, Mass., 
August 9, 1875. 
6. Harporhynchus rufus. 
First plumage . Generally similar to adult, but with the spots on the 
under parts much thicker, more diffuse, and dull black instead of reddish- 
brown. The pileum is slightly obscured by a blackish wash ; the rump 
rich golden-brown, and the spotting on the wing-coverts fawn-color. From 
specimens in my collection obtained at Cambridge, July 13, 1874. 
Fall* specimens differ from full-plumaged spring birds in having the 
upper parts of a darker, richer red, with a much stronger rufous wash on 
the under parts. 
