Descriptions of First Plumage of Ger- 
' tain North Am, Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 
68. Spizella socialis. 
First plumage : male. Above light reddish-brown, lighter and with an 
ashy tinge on the nape and rump, every feather streaked centrally with 
dark brown. Superciliary line and a poorly ‘defined median stripe upon 
the crown pale fulvous. Beneath ashy-white, spotted and streaked every- 
where, excepting on throat, anal region, and crissum, with dull black. 
Prom a specimen in my collection shot at Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1873. 
Bull. N. O.O. 3, July, 1878. p. /.?/. 
Albinism and Melanism in North 
American Birds. Buthven Deane, 
t tT£ S. socialis, 
BuiL N. 0.0. 1, April, 1876, p. 21 
4 
Idinistic Plumages, 
R, Deane. 
A pure 
white Chipping Sparrow, in first plumage, is in possession of Mr. 
N. C. Hammond. 
BulLN.O.O, 5, Jan., 1880. p, 20 
