Descriptions of First Plnmage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Bbs. W ux. Drews ter. 
62. Coturniculus passerinus. 
First plumage: male. Upper surface, including sides of neck, dark 
brown, each, feather edged and tipped with pale fulvous, — no chestnut 
marking. Sides of head ochraceous, spotted finely with dusky. Super- 
ciliary line pale buff. Greater and middle wing- coverts dull white. Be- 
neath dull white (in some specimens with a decided yellowish cast). 
Sides with a few dusky streaks. A broad continuous band of ovate black 
spots across the breast and jugulum, running upward in a narrowing line 
to the base of the lower mandible. Several specimens in my cabinet, col- 
lected at Nantucket, Mass., in July, 1874. This species in the first plu- 
mage may be at once separated from C. henslowi in the corresponding stage 
by the conspicuous band of spots upon the breast, and by the darker 
and more uniform coloring of the upper parts. 
Bull. N. O.O, 8, July, 1878. p, //?• 
