Descriptions of First Plumag-e of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. Wm. Brewster* 
59. Plectrophanes ornatus. 
First plumage: female. Above light reddish-brown, every feather 
streaked centrally with very dark brown, most heavily so upon the crown. 
Greater and middle wing-coverts pale ashy, tinged with reddish. Lores 
and superciliary stripes dull gray, the latter minutely dotted with brown. 
Under parts pale fulvous, streaked somewhat finely with brown upon the 
breast and jugulum, with a maxillary series of spots of the same color. 
From a specimen in my cabinet, collected by Dr. Coues, September 3 
1 873, at Souris River, Dakota, gpll, N . O . C . 3, July >18 i o. p« 
