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crescentic patch of pale yellow tinged with rose-color upon the breast. 
Nor is this specimen unique, for I have seen several others with a similar 
but less conspicuous mark. It probably represents an exceptionally high 
condition or phase of ornamentation, like the commoner one of scarlet or 
yellow wing-markings, in the Scarlet Tanager ( Pyranga rubra). Very old 
females of A. phoeniceus have the throat a delicate peach-color ; illustrated 
by several specimens in my cabinet from Nantucket and Ipswich, Mass. 
79. Icterus baltimore. 
First 'plumage : Top of head, nape, and interscapular region brownish- 
olive ; wing-bands pale fulvous ; rump, breast, anal region, and crissum 
olivaceous-yellow ; throat dull yellow ; abdomen pale buffy-yellow ; 
patches of ash on the sides. From a specimen in my collection shot in 
Cambridge, Mass., July 18, 1874. Autumnal adults have the orange-red 
richer and clearer than in spring, and the wing-quills much more broadly 
and conspicuously edged with white. Neither wing nor tail feathers are 
changed during the first moult. 
80. Scolecophagus ferrugineus. 
Several young birds of both sexes shot at Upton, Me., August 5, 1873, 
have apparently nearly completed the first moult ; but one, a male, has 
the head still covered with the feathers of the first plumage, which are of 
a uniform plumbeous color. All are moulting the wing and tail feathers. 
In each specimen a worn central pair of rectrices projects about three 
inches beyond the others, which are of a uniform length, and evidently 
just sprouting. Other individuals seen at the same time were conspicu- 
ously characterized in the same way, all presenting, when flying, the ap- 
pearance of birds with long forked tails, the elongated central feathers 
being slightly spread apart. 
81. Quiscalus purpureus. 
First plumage : male. Uniform dark plumbeous, darker above, lighter 
and with a faint brownish edging on the feathers beneath. Sides of 
throat and a large space around the eyes completely bare of feathers. 
From a specimen in my collection obtained at Upton, Me., June 22, 1873. 
Both wing and tail feathers are replaced during the first moult. 
82. Tyrannus carolinensis. 
First plumage : male. Above uniform dark sooty-brown, with a 
scarcely appreciable lighter edging on the feathers of the nape. No con- 
cealed red on the crown. Wing-bands yellowish-white. Breast soiled 
white, with a band of ashy- white across the breast. From a specimen in 
my collection shot at Upton, Me., July 24, 1872. 
83. Sayornis fuscus. 
First plumage : female. Crown and nape dark sooty-brown. Best of 
